2004 Honda Element Replace Engine

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MMeijering

Discussion Starter · Mar 1, 2010

Have a 2004 Honda Element with 195K miles on it. Took it to the Honda dealer 'cause the Engine light was on. Turns out the #1 cylinder is dead. They located an engine (used) with 32K miles on it. And quoted me about $3950 to exchange the engine with a warranty on the engine of 1K miles. Does this sound reasonable?

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ApriliaGuy

· #4 · Mar 1, 2010

In those almost 200k miles, did you ever have the valves adjusted/checked?

If it is a just a smaller valve issue, and the motor has been decently maintained, you might want to just do the valve job.

In any case, I'd look around at some other shops for a second opinion.

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ApriliaGuy

· #8 · Mar 3, 2010

MMeijering said:
Have an appointment for a second opinion tomorrow....

Any updates yet?

Any specific details on what is actually wrong?

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ApriliaGuy

· #11 · Mar 5, 2010

MikeQBF said:
Having just done the research, my advice to the OP is just find somebody to who will give you a few bucks for it for the scrap value. It's just not worth dumping that kind of money (and time, and effort) into...

I generally agree, but I still think a second opinion is worthwhile. We don't know why the cylinder is "dead."

What are the codes? Compression test? Maintenance history?

It could be as simple as a bad plug or coil/ignitor....or it could be an expensive fix.

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