Oil Filter leak
:mad: Just taken my S into Johnsons Honda - Slough having had oil drip onto garage floor. Oil all over underside of car and exhaust, blue smoke everywhere as I drove - very disconcerting.
Found that oil filter was cracked 2000 miles after 1st service. No problem until 3 days ago, shame nobody followed me after Surrey meet, they may have seen the blue smoke!!! Could be isolated problem or a fault on a batch of filters. Johnsons are sending it back to Honda to check. :fingerscrossed: |
Was it visibly cracked do you know?
I had one leak (and I bought that from Johnsons in Oxford), but nothing looked wrong so I've always thought it was just my fault. |
No visable signs that I could see without climbing under the car. They found it when on the ramp and cleaned off.
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If it's cracked my gut feeling would be handling damage prior to fitting or damaged during fitting and just taken a while to manifest. These things don't just split. With something like a filter they're shelled out like peas. There'll be thousands and thousands affected if its a manufacturing problem.
Did they tell you it was cracked or did you positively see and confirm it was cracked? Wouldn't be the first time a dealers lied to avoid looking like a complete bunch of useless :insertrudeword: |
Didn't see the filter but the leak was definitely coming from the filter area and all is ok now. No reason to distrust the dealer as they know I am related to a Honda employee and VERY quick to use that link if I do not get EXCELLENT service!
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Based on that I would suspect it was either a snagged o-ring during assembly after having been changed (most common reason for oil filter leaks) or someones dropped or damaged it prior to fitting (and I mean anyone in the entire service parts storeage/shipping/fitting chain).
Unfortunately I've too much experience of Honda dealers privately and other marques professionally to take what they say at their word. I typically reckon the service manager/sales manager have their grannies on ice in the back just in case they need to throw her in to make the sale :) |
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