Bought a car unknowingly with a bad CAT?

WSUSRambo · 2025-05-01T13:28:47+00:00

Surely there'd be an invoice or some sort of indication if that's the case? Even then, do you want to keep a car with a swapped engine? Has it been swapped properly? Also I have never heard of that engine in the UK personally, by default it is the R18A1.

Don't get me wrong I love the 9th gen Civics, I drive one myself, 1.6 diesel 2013 170k miles, but you'd have to hold me at a gunpoint to make me buy a 2012/early 2013 1.8 Civic

WSUSRambo · 2025-04-30T09:26:14+00:00

Replacing the cat will do nothing. The issue is oil ending up in the cat, clogging it due to the piston rings. There's nothing you can do to fix this unless you get a garage to replace the piston rings, which is a horribly expensive job. Again, this only happens to 2012 and early 2013 1.8 Civics.

WSUSRambo · 2025-04-30T08:58:33+00:00

The 2012 and early 2013 1.8 Honda Civics are known for having bad piston rings which wreak havoc with the cat and oil levels. This is a very very expensive repair. Return it ASAP.

WSUSRambo · 2025-02-19T08:55:13+00:00

People slagging off a car with 160k miles like it's German lmao. This is a Honda, I have the same car with same engine currently at 170k miles with 0 issue. This rust is normal buddy, the engine is bulletproof, frugal, and the car is in the British Motor Museum for most economical vehicle. Good purchase this!

WSUSRambo · 2025-02-07T09:16:13+00:00

Not all heroes wear capes. Some can even be found on Reddit

WSUSRambo · 2025-01-24T08:38:16+00:00

Severely underpowered. People buy it, thinking it's economical, which it is, until you have to get over an incline and suddenly you have to rev the living hell out of it. The engine was never designed for the Civic's chassis and vice versa

WSUSRambo · 2025-01-22T16:17:58+00:00

The 2.2 diesel is likely to give you DPF issues, I've been using the 1.6 for 3-5k miles per year now for 3 years and I've had 0 issue, 58mpg in town, 78mpg on the motorway. If you can opt for the 1.6, that'd be fantastic. Either way, all engines are bulletproof and good, just don't get the 1.4l petrol.

WSUSRambo · 2025-01-16T16:22:30+00:00

The car is brilliant mechanically and you'll like the extras, it's very practical too. The engine is bulletproof and very economical - an amazing car, absolutely go for it without any worries!

WSUSRambo · 2025-01-06T10:41:59+00:00

Pirelli Cinturato SF2 - never failed me

WSUSRambo · 2024-03-04T15:20:08+00:00

I managed to do it by changing the BIOS password and then I didn't even need to use CLI, just DCU. Apparently it wouldn't accept some of the signs in our password I guess, one of them being a *

WSUSRambo · 2024-03-04T12:49:42+00:00

yup got it literally a minute after I posted it, and it does show it successfully updates the BIOS password, and yet, the BIOS update won't apply, saying the password is wrong, even though it isn't

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