europa

I thought that Honda's big claim is that they have never had a failed VTEC engine?

gaddafi

no

some journos have said it

but there have been documented failures, as with all engines

pretty rare to hear of a catastrophic failure on here

in four years or so, I can only think of about five cases

europa

It's on the front of Honda's website (well the bit after you click 'cars', then 's2000') - there is a little robot thing that walks across the screen & a speech bubble states that they have never had a failure in making 15m engines. (or it might have been 1.5m or whatever)

chrisr111

They have never had a failure of the VTEC mechanism.

Bibbs

Exactly .. VTEC is fine, something else breaks first

Hope it's not too costly

five_belliez

Bad luck - i hope its nothing major, but at a guess you're looking at anything between 2-4k based on my own experience, so i'd go with Tesco value products for the next few months. you probably want to put the feelers out for a new engine now otherwise you maybe off the road for a while.

matthehat17

Yes, and I believe the qualifier is 'never had a VTEC system fail UNDER WARRANTY'... so it's quite possible older cars will break.

Sounds like an expensive moment, mate. Bad luck!

Havas

here is an S2000 with the engine in tact.

http://www.japperformanceparts.co.uk/Honda%20spares.htm

Might be worth checking if you can get your spares from there. Or a whole new engine if they still have it.

Nick Graves

Who's got those photo's of PJL's engine at the Honda institute; Budgie?

That's en example of the most common S2000 engine failure.

Nick Graves

Found 'em

(Apologies to Grahamb!)

Rod makes a big hole...



Because the rings pick up & wreck the bore, as my lovely assistant now demonstrates...