As mentioned many times before, we only had the F20C engine in the UK/EU. The “GT 100” was a run out special, no technical differences just colour, hard top, Kaiser Silver painted alloys and a few bits of bling, all were numbered. More correctly the topic is asking about engine issues in the latter years of UK cars, it didnt just happen in the GT 100 cars.

I replaced the thrust washers on a 2009 reg car (MY2008) after discovering excessive crankshaft end-float on a standard F20C2. Hopefully I’ve saved the engine before the inevitable failure that would’ve ensued. Honda UK weren’t interested at all, so you would definitely be on your own. Here are a couple of threads if you’re interested:

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/uk-irela...lease-1176019/


https://www.s2ki.com/forums/uk-irela...float-1188376/

How many miles has the engine done? Any problem will have started to manifest itself above say 12000. Ultimate failure might not be until 22000 or so.

If everything else is good with the car then it is still worth a look, but get the crankshaft end-float checked using a DTI by someone who knows what they’re looking at. If it’s in the range 0.10-0.25mm then it’s probably good, 0.30-0.45mm then still worth buying for the right money but immediately take the car to Tom at TGM and ask him to change the thrust washers. Five hours labour and an oil fill and you’re good to go - total bill will be less than £500.