Quote Originally Posted by luloym View Post
my more than 3-year-old civic makes thudding sound during cold starts in the morning and according to honda, it's caused by the engine side mounting touching already the engine frame. estimated cost is 9,500.00 for a new engine side mounting and labor. do i have other options? thanks for your help, honda gurus, though i'm really disappointed that there's already need for a replacement considering the car is only 3 years old and the mileage is only 30,000.
it is a known flaw ng FD ang defective design ng right side engine mount. It usually gets broken at around 25T -35T kms of normal city driving. So yung mga low milage na civic lugi kasi by the time na masira yan tapos na ang 3 yr warranty.

2007 pa lang naglabas na ng service bulletin ang honda to replace the defective side engine mount. A lot of FD's were affected but all of them were covered by warranty. Honda released a new engine mount with a different part number. However this new design still failed. The cost of the mount kung babayaran mo was 5.5k. So in April 2010 naglabas sila ng isa pang service bulletin to use another part number. The cost of this engine mount is 8.5k kung hindi ka na under warranty. Honda claims na mas matibay na ito keysa sa dalawang naunang design.

I have a 2006 1.8 and my milage is only 30T kms. Unfortunately for me hindi kaagad nasira ang orig mount ko during my warranty period at kahapon napansin ko nga ang vibrating sound na malakas kapag naka reverse tapos naka tapak sa brake (a/t). I checked the mount at basag na ang rubber part at tumapon na ang fluid sa loob.

As of now hindi pa sigurado kung ang new design released last april ay magiging matibay na. So nakakatakot gumastos ng 9k para palitan ang support na yan kung masisira din after 3 years. So I sourced this part and found out that HRC banawe has a replacement side engine mount para sa FD, both 2.0 and 1.8 and it only costs 1500 pesos. Other shops also has this JAC brand which sells for 1700 pesos.

The difference is that replacement mounts are solid. it does not have fluid inside kaya baka magkaroon ng engine vibration. Though ang claims ng mga nakapag kabit na ng replacement support eh minimal naman daw ang vibration. Check out sa www.teamfd.com.ph may discussion about engine support since 3 years ago.

Ako susubukan ko muna yung replacement. I think for the price difference it is worth trying.

BTW hindi basta basta ang pag palit ng engine mount ng FD. As per shop manual bago mo i-torque ang bolts sa side engine mount, luluwagan muna yung tranny mounts sa left side. May 3 bolts sa ibabaw and one bolt sa ilalim. You need to remove the air filter assy to access the tranny mount. Once naluwagan na ang tranny mount, tsaka mo pa lang pwede higpitan ang side engine mount. Then pag mahigpit na ang side engine mount bolts tsaka hihigpitan ang tranny mount.