You Coulda Had A V6 — Unless You Bought A CR-V, Of Course

Did you make the sensible, sane choice of the four-cylinder engine in your 2015 Accord? What about refusing to perform an LS7 swap in your CR-V immediately after taking delivery? Well, now you are going to (have a one in three thousand chance that you will have to) pay for that mistake.

Quoth Honda:

Honda will voluntarily recall 137 model-year 2014-2015 Accord 4-cylinder and 2015 CR-V vehicles in the United States to replace the engine short block, free of charge. During engine assembly, an automated system that verifies engine connecting rod bolt torque may not have identified improperly torqued bolts in a specific group of engines. An improperly torqued connecting rod bolt could come loose, leading to potential engine damage and stalling, which could contribute to a crash. No crashes or injuries have been reported related to this issue, which was discovered through a warranty claim review process.

Honda is announcing this recall to encourage all owners of affected vehicles to take them to an authorized dealer as soon as they receive notification of this recall from Honda. Mailed notification to customers will begin in late-March. In addition, owners of these vehicles can determine if their vehicles require repair by going to http://ift.tt/yYawDI or by calling (800) 999-1009, and selecting option 4.

So, how did this happen, and how do they know about it? It was likely the result of auditing logs from a FANUC machine or something similar and comparing them to a torn-down engine. The Anna Engine Plant turns out a few thousand engines every day so the actual range of time where the machine was not adjusted properly could be very small. It's also possible, of course, that every four-cylinder Honda built last year will explode. You never know. I think we can all agree that the important lesson to learn from this is: always get the bigger engine.

Full disclosure: At one point in the past, your humble author might have been directly responsible for this error or at least in the chain of responsibility identified by Honda's 5P Process. Thankfully, this happened long after I bid goodbye to the Marysville Assembly Plant and I had nothing to do with it. This is the sort of thing for which American Honda will immediately terminate even a long-standing employee.

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