I had this with my 02 Civic lx. Did compression test and it came up fine. Mechanic checked it and found it was the head gasket. Replaced it all with a gasket kit, new water pump and full tune up. Runs like a champs now, going on 4 months no problems.
Don\u2019t let them discourage you. If you have a place to park it and work on it and you want it then get it. Worst comes worst you are out $900 and have a car to learn on. My first project was doing a head gasket on a t5 volvo and everyone said that it would be too hard to learn how to work on a car with. It wasn\u2019t easy or cheap compared to Hondas but I had a turbo 5 cylinder volvo when I fixed it.
I have an e34 518i as my second car and I daily it (I’m 18). It’s a brilliant second car and pretty reliable for the most part, its a 30 year old car so expect the off electrical gremlin. Sills are normally the killers for these cars. Have a good look at the jacking points and take off the sill covers if you buy one and make sure it doesn’t need any welding. I would recommend not getting the 518i as I had to redo the HEADGASKET but other than that they are good. Make sure to get it to speed and make sure it doesn’t have the usual 55mph wheels wobble. Brilliant cars though! Do it!!
EGR Cooler or head gaskets. My old 6.7 Cummins would blow coolant from the rad cap only under boost. Had a cracked gasket letting combustion gases enter the cooling system.
Mainly the EJ25 Outbacks have problems due to the failure of their head gaskets being pretty much inevitable. Also 2012+ Outbacks have a bad rep for their CVTs, not because they're bad, but because Subaru America stated that the CVT fluid is a lifetime fluid when every other country recommends replacing it every 50,000 kms, causing US models to blow up their transmission after just over 100,000 miles. This isn't a problem if you service your CVT regularly.
This thing has been horrible. Leaky head gasket off the factory line, and brakes that wear in 5k miles. Is anyone else in the same boat as me?
the headgasket still blew 1.5k miles after i bought it at 90k miles.
my wife's 2017 CR-V blew a head gasket at 133k, despite doing all the maintenance items when they were required., including yep.. regular oil changes when required. Honda dealer straight up lied and told me it was because I didn't change the oil, such BS. Took the car to another place, asked them to confirm this.. go figure, it was not true. I saw the engine myself. We just got the damn thing back after two months of tracking down a used engine, they are hard to find. That tells me this happens often. We ended up replacing the engine, but the turbocharger it came with was cracked so another had to shell out another 1k or something. All in all it was 8k. The frickin car will be paid off in January, we were so close. Anyways.. Come to find out there are class-action lawsuits in Canada over the 1.5 engine, I'm sure there will be one in the US as well after researching it. tons of issues. Lots of other manufacturer's have had issues with these little engines with high compression.
My 2024 blew a head gasket at 19k miles.
Not even 6 months into it the head gasket exploded and the engine was completely fucked.
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