Honda recalls nearly 250K vehicles because rod bearing can fail.

[Propflux01]

“Honda says in documents posted Friday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that connecting rod bearings in the engine can wear and seize due to a manufacturing error, damaging the engines. The engines could run improperly or stall while being driven, increasing the risk of a fire, crash or injury.
The automaker says in documents that it has 1,450 warranty claims due to the problem but no reports of injuries.”


https://www.5newsonline.com/article...HIcIih5WtEOeZIu2kEsTXb0-8buGRCpJf2M0bwUZFuJQk

 

[Gyro Gearloose]

A rod bearing may seize causing the engine to stall or run improperly. Quite possibly the understatement of the year. Anybody know what the actual "manufacturing error" is?

 

[KrisZ]

Looks like the vehicles affected are V6 models, could it be VCM related?

 

[racer12306]

A rod bearing may seize causing the engine to stall or run improperly. Quite possibly the understatement of the year. Anybody know what the actual "manufacturing error" is?

Kerr CHUNK and you're not driving home.

 

[Thermo1223]

Sounds like the Subaru incident, bad metallurgy in the bearing caused tons of STI/WRXs and subsequently lower power Forester & Outback XT's to fail.

 

[SubieRubyRoo]

This has already been posted 3-4 times here. They didn’t machine the journals to the right size. IMO if it’s been 4-6 years and there hasn’t been an issue yet, it’s not likely it ever will be.

Mismatched bearing or journal sizes almost always present as infant mortality, not at 100k+ miles.

 

[chris719]

It's interesting how this is framed as a safety issue for Honda but wasn't for BMW with the M S65 and S85 engines. I guess NHTSA doesn't care if your engines spin bearings until you voluntarily recall them? Makes you wonder how almost every Kia engine (other than the Tau) avoids recall if simply failing all the time at alarming rates is the criteria.

 

[rcs]

Thank you for posting this, I was unaware of this. Although I do have a 2015 Honda pilot.

 

[i6pwr]

It's interesting how this is framed as a safety issue for Honda but wasn't for BMW with the M S65 and S85 engines

Can't have Acuras seizing up, that would tarnish a reputation...granted this also includes Honda models.

Kinda like the unspoken transmission issues with Honda back when..early 2000's? How many Odyssey's had these failures?

 

[I<3oil]

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/honda-3-5l-owners-heads-up.376031/