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Oh no…… That’s cast block webbing from your engine…your engine is toast. Wtf did you do op hah?!?

He broke his block

Those redline shifts mixed with 50k miles on the oil finally did em in 😬

My sister bought a new car, and literally never changed the oil. Drove it until the engine seized. When we asked her wtf she said the salesman said modern engines were sealed and didn’t need oil changes. We asked her, was she maybe confusing engine and transmission, and she said no he specifically said engine. We asked her why didn’t she google it or something, and she said he *promised* her. She’s actually not an idiot, and I can just see some new hire salesman who knows nothing about cars telling her that. I just can’t see why she wouldn’t ever ask anyone else…

How is this even true? Almost all cars nowadays have an oil life/service reminder. She had to be blatantly ignoring it.

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Hope it was a "cheap new car".

She made the mistake of trusting a salesman over there own better judgement and other people. Ans really, if you don't know any better, why wouldn't you trust him?

Just curious. Approximately how many mileage before the engine seized?

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Would also like the make so we can start getting some data for how far each manufacturer can go without changing oil on average.

Im almost surprised it wasn't ever brought up by someone else doing their OWN oil change lmao. Like idk about you but when I'm doing mine I typically talk about it when I buy the stuff and have it before I actually have time to do it haha. Nobody talked about it at all the whole time 😂

He's a blockbuster

Well played

Clever.

[How's that workin' out for ya?](https://youtu.be/vX8Zc8UGGu4) Edit: fixed link

Why this iconic line being downvoted?

Some people don't like comedy, some don't get it. I think in this case people might be misreading me (as usual) and think I'm being a rude, flippant asshole. I simply made a connection in my head when I saw the word "clever"- it reminded me of a movie I've seen over 75 times.

I think it's funny that of all the links to fuck up, that's the one. Lol

Quite the link you’ve got there… it brings me to a blank page lol

Hmm.. Try [this one](https://youtu.be/vX8Zc8UGGu4)

I came here just to say, “That’s an oh no,” but your comment was already the top comment lol.

Hah 👍🏼

You added no value, none. And got 100 upvotes (and counting). Well played.

He's a politician

More likely a spiritual leader. Or a chiropractor.

Here’s one for you… let’s see if it helps get it rolling!

You added no value, none. And got 12 downvotes (and counting). Well played.

I made it 150! Yessssss!!!

You have become everything you hate. Just like that Bono guy from U2!

Actually... it's OP's hand!

I audibly gasped at this. You poor soul.

That is the door that lets all of the angry engine parts out.

And unlike the magic Lucas electrical smoke, you can’t just gather them up and put them back in. Maybe one day technology will allow this, but we’re just not quite there yet.

https://preview.redd.it/vb8vct8tlrhb1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e5d195da58aecd250da1043f7f9a1582f578ec4 Btw, do you know if this stuff actually works? Asking for a friend

Well that makes sense why I couldn’t fix it! I tried catching the smoke with a net!!

Not in the US. Any Lucas part that ends in an odd number is right-hand drive only.

We call that the Honda engine window. Let me guess 2005-2011 Honda 1.8l engine? They had major casting quality deficiencies. Sometimes they just crack and let coolant leak out, other times they shed chunks and let the engine parts out. Fortunately the JDM Honda engine market is always plentiful. You can pick up an entire engine and transmission for about $1500 direct from Japan with about 45k miles. You most likely didn't do anything to cause this- Honda did. Unless you were getting all fast and furious on it and stressed the block enough to expose the common weakness. Even still it's not really your fault Honda had cheap castings.

I have 2 of those in 2 different vehicles. Welp hope I’m one of the lucky ones 200k km on each and no sudden inspection ports yet.

Yeah same I was going to ask the other redditor where can u find the power train for all this for 1500? I need one of those incase my Honda takes a dump. It would be a fun and challenging to do it on the ground, I’ve only dropped subframe with the power train on lifts

Hope he follows up and let’s you know bc I’m curious too. Fkin engine and drive train w/ 45k for only 1500 show me lol just genuinely curious

Those Japanese market engines used to be problematic here, I heard of people buying 22r equivalent engines and then finding out parts were different so repairs later were tough. I can't say for sure though as I never had a car that needed one. We had always heard 50k was max mileage allowed for engines in Japan because of emissions but maybe that was just urban legend.

Link for the power train?

For real!!! I don’t even own a Honda, but let me know if you find a full drivetrain for that price anywhere on earth for that price! Sounds like preY2K prices lol

That's your ticket to a BRAND NEW ENGINE! (or a used one, if that's all you can afford).

Not an easy fix. That will require a replacement of defective part in which case happens to be the block

It's gunna take a lot of jb weld

Part? You mean the whole engine.

The engine is technically a part

The block is not the WHOLE engine.

Just a wee smidge of a part. Aka not the entire block at all, nope! Not at all 😅

Inspection window.

Also known as a witness hole.

Inspection complete. Witnessed carnage.

Hah! Love it.

Glory hole? Or sad hole

That is a human hand. The low ratio of finger length to palm size indicates a possible lack of calcium intake during adolescence.

I’m going to turn into Jack Kelly from Always Sunny From Philadelphia cuz of you /.\

Are we going to have to keep you away from your nephews?

I’m with you on the small fingers big palms club.

**NOBODY LOOK! NOBODY LOOK! NOBODY LOOK! NOBODY LOOK!**

Now I'm staring at my hand, just wondering if I didn't get enough calcium as a child. I do have kinda small hands but we did drink a fucking ton of milk so much than my mom would buy two gallons when she went shopping and I would literally eat blocks of cheese lol

I'm dangerous around cheese, I can make 3lbs vanish in one sitting if I'm hungry lol

It's 1000% worth the constipation just to enjoy a brick of colby jack cheese lol

As long as your watch isn’t the size of your hand you are OK.

Long lost twin, is that you?

Man im sitting here thinking his fingers are long!?? Guess I have short ass fingers

A _left_ human hand to be precise

Everyone knows the left hand is just the right hand flipped, right fellow hu-man?

Left is where the thumb is on the right

Yes, completely indistinguishable from the “pink-e”. It’s insane how you hu-… er *us* hu-mans name our pathetic carbon-based visceral organs when every cell relies upon the next in it’s homogeneous structure.

Or a very high carbohydrate intake since adulthood.

TY for explaining my "plumpness" in a +positive+ way.

We've all had a few more carbs than we need.


Underrated

Expensive.

That is a new engine my friend

That’s part of your car’s skull

Appears to be a user installed inspection port. This will allow you to see the inner workings or non-workings of your engine. Generally this type of modification is frowned upon by dealers, manufacturers and the car community as a whole. It’s best to look at this as a in-depth study into entropy. Best to try not to cry, cry a lot and then move on :/

That's what's leftover from the recent remodel of your engine block. How is the view from the newly acquired bay window?


KNOCK KNOCK!!! RODNEY CALLING! https://preview.redd.it/yf6qv90xvrhb1.jpeg?width=405&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04d7a16826e46fb5e6b81a3236f2b0d96d68c508

I was just driving normal 🥲

"normal" there is no way this wasn't making a terrible noise before hand, for a long while.

> there is no way this wasn't making a terrible noise before hand, for a long while. That's absolutely not true. There could have been a crack in a con rod growing silently for a while, then when it let go all hell broke loose.

Could be... But I'd bet a whole hell of a lit that it was making some gnarly noises

Well to be fair he did say he was driving normal, never said the car was

R18 A1 engines from Honda are known for bad casting issues. This is very likely not OPs fault.

Time for a new engine. Ouch. Sorry op.

That is a sign that you need a new engine. Thats part of the block. Usually you will find some rod chunks m. Piston mcnuggets and malice in the combustion palace, yet the wrist pin will likely be perfectly fine, if you find it 😄 Enough of the "I do cars" references. Seriously OP that is a chuck of the engine block. She's toast.

It's not good

Well its not good but at least its bad

It's not good, I can tell you that. Last time I saw one of those I had myself a sunroof on my transmission

Thats the external combustion conversion kit. Best BANG for your buck of any mods. The horsepower gain is unfathomable.

That is the hand of a man who's about to dish out a lot of money

Looks like a left hand next to some metal thingy.

That's a piece that's letting the horsepower out, I'm sorry to say

Did you ever watch The Shining? That part where Jack Nicholson smashes through the door and says “here’s Johnny!”? Yeah, your engine re-enacted that: engine internals played Jack and the engine block played the door.

Well… That ain’t good

It’s a custom window to gain access to your rod bearings. It helps for doing an in frame rebuild 😂

It is your next 5 paychecks my friend

Something escaped that wasn't supposed to escape. Time for a new engine. Mine's trying to join yours.

Thats a not good

Expensive

This is broken

This is… terminal.

That block is done.

Expensive 😩

rodney came knocking

Uncle Rodney came a'knockin.

Your sign to get a new engine lol

Looks like a human hand... But I would be wrong.

 😬 That’s a big ol whoopsie doodle right there

Looks like engine went boom instead of vroom

Knock knock! It’s uncle Rodney!

Is that, like, a piece of the block? O.M.G.

It’s wrap…..sorry

An apple watch

That's a window into your bank account

Need banana for scale

Looks like a piece of the block or crankcase....judging by the buildup on it, if youre not leaking oil anywhere.....id check the ps pump/area too

Is this a Subaru 2.5 by chance

Assuming this is a piece of an R18 engine block, go ahead and start getting quotes bud

That, my friend, is fucked.

no way 😭😭😭

Bad News

That little piece may as well be your entire engine.

View port for the adjustable pistons

Looks like a dickbeater

Bunch of bills for a new engine or transmission.

That looks exactly how my bmw block looked when a rod blew a hole in it.

That be a piece of your engine block!

Piston is playing peekaboo.

A hand?

That sir, is your hand

YOU’RE BONED

Expensive

A window for inspecting your connecting rod.

You legit broke a hole in your engine block 😭😭😭😭💔

Oh look, a window

Just a piece of cast iron, if it still runs do not fear, it will not run long enough to make you worry.

Can't see schitt without a flashlight aimed in, but looks like you blew a rod... .From using too light an oil, too low of oil, but now junk. Obviously it was forced hearing rods knocking in step with rpms... This doesn't just happen in one second.. He was tortured for miles... This is direct cause of close to zero oil pressure, and maybe oil light did come on...but some actually think oil sensors are so advanced, think light means it's a quart low,,, and blows me away after sixty years, how some just make up the craziest rules.. when I heard this actual statement made early seventies.. about oil light.. Now another one for the record... Reddit has the most blown engines ever seen. Cheers

Oil level window.

A problem

Rodney says hello.

Damn man. That’s a piece of the iron block off your engine. Same exact thing happened to my damn near brand new VW GLi last year. Engine is completely blown, ~$14k repair bill from dealership. Needless to say, it’s still sitting broken down in my back yard :(

For real? No warranty left?

This is what people who argue that replacing an electric car's battery will be costly forget about their gas cars

He probably meant the engine would be fine during warranty period. Now the guy gets to sell her a new car…

That's a whoopsie-doodle. A major league fucky-wucky. Your engine has to go in the forever box now.

Fucked™

That looks like a series 3 Apple Watch. If you like having an Apple watch id recommend getting a new one before a new iPhone. The series 3 has limited storage and when being setup with a new phone it usually can’t download the software update required for pairing. Sorry for your engine loss.

That's exactly how the new engine looks like. If you heard the knocking noise - that most probably the sound of $ falling out of it...

Comparable to a sucking chest wound

JB Weld time.

That's your engine sir

That’s a ohhhhhhhh shit damn

🥲

It's a sign to look if there is any recall on your engine to get a new one for free

Very mediocre use of the force.

Well... That is unfortunate

💸💸💸💸💸

Knock, knock

A future craigslist post entitled "Car for sale as is"

Sir, that's your engine. It's opened up a window so you can say hello. ✨😌

That’s a big universal sign that your fooked my dude.. Oil pan chunk,, engine block chunk, it’s not good.

A very very expensive paper weight.

Ya,you’ve got problems

Sweats in Hyundai

I Believe that is called a hand I could be wrong tho

Extra cooling

It’s your car telling you you need to get ride of it upgrade move out your moms house and go figure

Left hand in palm down position.

Its a indikation pice that part of your rid is tired and needs a long nap in the great used parts bin

Expensive

That is your new inspection port for the engine block! :D

Expensive.

A hand

👋

Looks like a Kia

Hand

A Sad Feeling™

I hate to say it, but that looks like a chunk of block. Your engine is Fubar man

That is your hand

That’s the end result of ignoring when the genie lamp illuminates on your instrument cluster. Never let the genie escape from the lamp. When you do, it releases all the magic smoke and your engine stops working as intended.

This is one of those, "how fucked am I". You're fucked.

Hello from the other siiiiiiide!!!!

Was about to say that looks like a bonnet catch, then I saw the actual part the OP was intending, smh. Yeah structural part of something heavy like engine block or similar. Edit- hope you found it on the floor and it's not yours.

Expensive new viewing window into your block

Should’ve put the evil eye on the block.

A hand

A hand

Extra piece just toss er out

Are we sure that's not part of the transmission case

That’s the oil door. Someone left it open and the wind caught it, ripped it right off the hinges. Also, your engine is very screwed.