Hi everyone, This is my first post. I would have liked it to have been something more positive, like how I really enjoy my FK8 (which I do). Unfortunately, there's a developing problem that started to happen last month, which appears to be getting worse. My FK8 is a 67 plate and has now done 19,000 miles from new. I bought it just over a year ago from a Honda Main Dealer with 13,000 miles on the clock. I have an Extended Warranty. The car is totally standard with no mods. The first time I noticed there was a problem was a few weeks ago. Under hard accelaration, I noticed a hesitancy for the turbo to kick in. This continued to get worse until one day the engine really stuttered and threw up various warning lights on the dash display. I had to stop the car as it was misfiring. I restarted the engine after a few minutes and everything appeared to be fine again. No misfiring. I took it to my local Honda Main Dealer and they ran some tests. They said that the cause of the issue was contaminated fuel that I must have picked up during one of my many fuel stops. I've never misfuelled it but generally put in 95RON with the occasional 97/99RON inbetween. They also said that it was very likely that the fuel injectors were clogged up and that it would cost £4,000+ to fix this by fitment of 4 new fuel injectors + new fuel rail (and maybe other things). They also said that it wouldn't be covered by my Extended Warranty because the cause of the issue was due to putting contaminated fuel in my tank. As you can imagine, I was flabbergasted by this. Can fuel get contaminated at filling stations and if so, can it cause that much damage to the fuel injectors? I thought the misfiring and lack of power as you put your foot down might have been something to do with the turbo or a dodgy spark plug, but the garage is convinced it's the fuel injectors. The head service technician at the Honda Main Dealer said I could try one of these companies that deals with misfueling incidents by draining the tank dry and flushing through chemicals to clear the fuel lines (and injectors, hopefully). This is something I'm thinking of doing as £150-200 (if it works) is going to be a lot cheaper than £4,000+! But before I do this, I just wanted to reach out to anyone out there that might have experienced a similar problem to me with their FK8 that has found the cause and solution (and cost!)? Since the Honda Main Dealer diagnosis I decided to only fill my car with 97/99RON higher grade fuel in case the car was grumbling at the regular 95RON stuff. As soon as I did this, my car appeared to be running better to start with (but this could have been partly a placebo effect) but is now getting worse… much worse. It's got to the point now where it struggles on hills. HELP! What do I do? Thanks in advance for any advice. It's really starting to get me down :-( |