The car only had 17,000 miles when the rocker arm roller broke. The heads are damaged and being repaired. The car has a 6-speed manual transmission. Even though they are covering the repairs, the Honda reps are trying to say that the head damage was caused by driver error - someone downshift to a low gear at a high rate of speed (which didn't happen). Anyone ever hear of anything like this?

 

If honda can prove it that it was driver error then you will pay for it...however, I would call honda on their bluff and ask them to prove it.

 

Have any idea what would cause the rocker arm roller to break?

 

I would say either faulty parts, high revs on a newly broken in engine, driving like a jack ***.......lots of variables.

 

If you missed a shift, for example downshifted from 5th to 2nd instead of to 4th, then that almost always bends multiple valves. I guess it could break a rocker arm as well, but I've never heard of that happening.

no manufacturer has a 100% quality rate. I'd guess that you just got unlucky.

 

If the roller was defective and broke spontaneously could that have cause damage to the heads?

 

Metal flying around in your head is usually not a good thing, if the rocker arm broke and had some pieces fly off I would say damage would be guaranteed.

 

Overrevving like everyone said, but if honda is covering it probably defect just trying to cover their ***. The ecu should have stored some of the last data before the rocker arm broke, speed,rpms etc. I would just be happy their covering it and leave it at that less fuss and their fixing it.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by KFL &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Overrevving like everyone said, but if honda is covering it probably defect just trying to cover their ***. The ecu should have stored some of the last data before the rocker arm broke, speed,rpms etc. I would just be happy their covering it and leave it at that less fuss and their fixing it. </TD></TR></TABLE>

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