Hey, took the suggestion of a few on this board when I noticed my new Stook with 2000 miles on it was a little low on oil (1/2 quart?). I took the car by the dealer to have them top it up and they said the plugs had been recalled and wanted to perform the recall--which they did.

Anyone else hear of a plug recall? Of course, they forgot to top it off anyway...

 

Almost everyone but you have heard of the recall. Have you checked out other threads or done a search on the subject?

 

Also, you may want to buy yourself some oil to do your own topping off. You'll notice the S will do that a lot during the first few thousand miles or so. Read your manual as well.

 

Knew of the oil issue, I've read tons on the subject in these forums. Somewhat surprised none of them (or the F20C engine troubles) referenced the plugs recall. Which is why I didn't search on this one--btw, thanks for the kind hearted welcoming reception for my first post on this website community. :-)

I have some oil in the trunk as others have suggested, but also thought I'd make sure the dealer knew I was checking periodically. (CYA in case the #4 cylinder issue strikes me and the oil level appears low... from my previous reading on this subject at this site, it's not certain on a few cases whether low oil was caused after the engine lock up or not on a few of those replaced small block situations.)

Wow, just went back and re-read your post. Spot on with the RTFM suggestion. How'd you know I had totally neglected to even realize that this car came with one of those book-thingys... must I read it all or is there a condensed version that is much easier on us lower-IQ types? :-)

ABTW, r u the moderator? Or merely the redundant post nazi and car manual librarian? :-)

Please take all this humor in jest. I do. :-) I just love it when someone corrects me for "proper posting guidelines" when generally 99% of everyone on the 'net today didn't know there was one before "www". Hell, some of us helped create most of the posting etiquette because of 1900 baud lines we used to have to use (after trudging through 5 miles of snow to get to the the office... "and you tell kids that now-adays and they won't believe you"). I wonder how long you've been "using the internet"? Notice I didn't say "using the web". If only there were a true Stook usenet newsgroup... Alt.rec.cars.stook anyone? But hey, rest contented that you've managed to not only increase my knowledge base by pointing me to a wealth of previously undiscovered paper documentation but at the same time you've also re-educated me on the amazing wealth of electronic information to be found out there just merely by searching and reading and weeding through all the redundant posts... and posters. But hey, even us oldies need reminders occasionally and you can rest easy knowing that you've really given me the motivation to re-read and religiously follow all the posting guidelines again. Thanks!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by chandler_hall
[B]Knew of the oil issue......btw, thanks for the kind hearted welcoming reception for my first post on this website community.

 

To be honest it's hard to find any forum where the plug recall is not talk about in some way,shape or form.You never got the notice from Honda in the mail about the recall?

 

I'm sorry if I offended you in any way chandler-hall. That was not my intent. I just never heard of a car owner taking their car in to have them top off the engine oil. Also, s2ki has been inundated with spark plug recall TSBs and felt you were unaware of this fact. I always remind owners to read their manual because of some of the concerns they have are addressed in the manual, but they never bothered to read it.

 

NP. I think my "bad monday work start" also put me in the wrong mood or something.

Seriously, thanks for the pointers. No, NOT only have I not gotten a recall (yet), I'm surprised to see I had to bother with it. I just got my stook on Aug. 10th. You can see my surprise that there was "already" a recall for it. (I assumed they apply TSBs, recalls, etc. to product before leaving the factory. I guess not, huh?)

And I agree with you, most people don't read the manual. I used to handle support on computers, so I'm pretty religious about reading them. Wished my sales guy had read one, so he would have informed people--me included--on keeping the RPMs below 5500 before 600 miles were put on the car. I took it up to 8000 in the test drive a few times and I'm sure others did as well.

As to the suggestion about "topping it off". I would never have even thought of having the dealer do it, but there are about 300 posts on "break-in oil", "high oil consumption when new", etc.

Several of the posters are now suggesting to have the dealer "top it up" so there is NO issue about amount or type of oil used IF a problem such as the #4 cylinder issue occurs. IE, most of the people are being treated well by AHM, but a few are being denied warranty coverage due to "too low oil". I figured it would be safer to make sure that the techs at the dealer know I'm checking and are being "just a little anal" to make sure they remember. :-) They continue to say that no oil should be getting consumed. They also want to change it now(2K miles), but I've been adamant to wait until 4K due to many of the posts here. I don't know if I can hold them off till 5K miles or not. :-(

And I appologize about dinging you. I looked up your profile and a few posts. Clearly you were just helping. I have only just begun to get into the meat of some of the posts since finding this site. I couldn't believe I spent several hours just researching which side to trust on the dipstick and what type of oil should be used as a "top up". And when to change it. And when to switch to synthetic.

This morning I just figured with such a new car and a recall "already" (one that I hadn't seen mentioned in the 100+ posts I've read on the small block replacements and oil changes), that this was something fairly new. Sorry again.

 

Chandler,you can top off with any good quality oil.I added 2qts. of Castrol during my break in.I understand and don't blame you for being careful but our cars are built pretty well and after the break in I think you'll see the oil usage drop alot.

 

CH, IMO there was absolutely nothing wrong with your original post. This is a discussion board, not a library. If others feel innondated with plug recall posts, they don't have to read them (it's obvious from the title what the thread was going to be about).

As far as not getting a notice in the mail, your car may not be covered. Not all '02s need new plugs, just VINs ...0001 to ...6983. The dealer should have checked the VIN, but I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't.