DATE: January 30, 2016
TO: All Honda Parts & Service Managers, Advisors and Personnel
FROM: Campaign Administration
RE: Stop Sale/Safety Recall: 2016 Civic Piston Pin Snap Ring

On Friday, January 29, 2016, American Honda notified NHTSA of a stop sale and safety recall for approximately 34,000 2016 Civic vehicles due to potentially missing or misset piston pin snap rings that may cause engine stall or failure. Any new or used units in dealer stock must be inspected, and if necessary, repaired per service bulletin 16-017, Safety Recall: Piston Pin Snap Ring once the parts, tools, and complete repair information are available. Refer to your eResponsibility report or VIN inquiry to determine which units in your inventory are affected by this safety recall.

Note: Affected vehicles should not be sold until the repair has been completed. Should an unrepaired vehicle result in any claim because of the required recall repair, the dealership will be solely responsible to the claimant, and will be required to defend and indemnify American Honda for any resulting claims.

All affected units will require use of a borescope to inspect the four cylinders to confirm correct piston pin snap ring placement. Vehicles exhibiting any concerns with piston pin snap ring placement may require replacement of damaged pistons, piston pins or rings, or other related engine components.

Replacement parts are not available at this time. American Honda is working to procure a sufficient number of borescopes and replacement parts to satisfy this recall. As such, the version of bulletin 16-017 posted on the Service Information System does not currently contain any tool, parts, warranty, inspection, or repair information. Once tools and parts are made available, American Honda will revise service bulletin 16-017 to include all details related to this recall. American Honda will notify dealers of the bulletin revision and tool distribution details via iN message.

Customers affected by this safety recall may visit your dealership prior to tool, parts and/or repair procedure availability. Please be sure to inform these customers of the safety recall, being sure to let them know that tools and parts are not currently available, and that they will be notified once supply stabilizes. American Honda expects to conduct customer notification in mid-March 2016. By this time, all necessary tools, parts and details are expected to be available.

The recall affects only the 2.0L engine, and is VIN specific.

At least Honda isn't trying to hide their problem. Unlike some german brand that cheats and some american brand that lies about ignition switches.

Almost one month ago, we reported on a BMW investigation into a potentially defective bolt that lived in the company's VANOS variable valve timing system. At that point, the potential recall was seemingly limited to Chinese-market cars; the company was filing a recall application with Chinese officials.

Today, Bloomberg is reporting that the engine bolt issue has expanded into a recall for several world markets, involving some 489,000 vehicles. BMW was able to verify that report to Autoblog, while also providing a great deal more detail about the issue and vehicles affected.

The recall affects vehicles powered by N55 inline six-cylinder gasoline engines equipped with VANOS and Valvetronic technologies. 1 Series, 3 Series, 5 Series and 5 Series Gran Turismo, X3, X5, X6 and Z4 models from the 2010 to 2012 model years are included, as is the 2012 6 Series.

In total, 156,137 vehicles in the US are affected by the recall, which BMW says was filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration late on Wednesday.

In rare cases, the bolts holding the VANOS unit housing may become loose, or, in "extreme" cases, break. A broken bolt may trigger an engine warning light or send the engine into safe mode if the VANOS unit is compromised. Ignoring the issue could cause "no start conditions," stalling and further engine damage.

As you might suspect, BMW recommends that owners observing engine warning lights should arrange for service.

NHTSA has yet to issue its own recall notice, though presumably they are forthcoming, and BMW's own statement can be seen below.

but at least if something happens within your 4 year 80k warranty, its covered. Other manuf. will try to blame the end user as much as they can to get out of paying to out of their pocket to take care of a customer.

One of the guys here bought a brand new corolla, engine let go at 20k... they tried to blame it on him for over revving.. claiming 4000RPM is too high for the engine. But never gave concrete proof of what let go. The dude has since lawyered up and is fighting toyota canada for it to be fixed. Meanwhile, he's had to buy a cheap beater to get around.

Okay, I buy a BMW expecting my rod bearings are going to need replacing, or I am going to need to go through 7 generations of both HPFPs and injectors. But Honda? That shit better make 500k km with just oil changes, or else whats the point.

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No one in thier mind buys a German turd expecting Japanese relativity. This is the point of this thread. Honda you just plain suck now.

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No one in thier mind buys a German turd expecting Japanese relativity. This is the point of this thread. Honda you just plain suck now.

lol fucking autocorrect.

We're talking about a recall here for missing snap rings lmfao. Small number of civics affected or not it's still a big fuck up on hontards part.

but at least if something happens within your 4 year 80k warranty, its covered. Other manuf. will try to blame the end user as much as they can to get out of paying to out of their pocket to take care of a customer.

One of the guys here bought a brand new corolla, engine let go at 20k... they tried to blame it on him for over revving.. claiming 4000RPM is too high for the engine. But never gave concrete proof of what let go. The dude has since lawyered up and is fighting toyota canada for it to be fixed. Meanwhile, he's had to buy a cheap beater to get around.

Screamin goes home every day and cries for the glory days of th NSX and ITR

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No one in thier mind buys a German turd expecting Japanese relativity. This is the point of this thread. Honda you just plain suck now.

so then why else buy a three series? for that whopping horsepower? or perhaps all those fancy features...oh wait that's in the civic.

in other words, you would pay more money for something that's completely shit and could break down anyday, because....bmw?

so then why else buy a three series? for that whopping horsepower? or perhaps all those fancy features...oh wait that's in the civic.

in other words, you would pay more money for something that's completely shit and could break down anyday, because....bmw?

A lot of people in here care about the badge man

Well this new civic is fugly as fuck from the side and rear. Like holy fuck my eyes.