Hey Folks, I wanted to know what is the cause for porous block and why it does it ?

 

It's from a defect in the casting(whatever it's called) process they used when making the blocks.

 

Nothing causes it. It was how the block was made at the time of production. People with an 08 build date seem to have the problem mostly.

 

I have a build date of 08....Sigh... I am at 70 thousand miles and coolant haven't go down yet.

 

It's actually the early `09 cars that have the issue, mostly. Very few late 08 cars. Stupid Styrofoam casting.

 

What month?

 

Famous date 09/08...sigh...

 

Mines 10/08.

Yolo

 

I need to check my build date then

 

i have an 09 sedan... mine went.

 

Well mine is 08/08 hope im safe lol

 

Same here. Worried

 

Never mind. It's 11/08. Should I be worried? Is it a common date to have the problem?

 

Well is there a specific plant that build the engines or it doesnt matter what plant they were built it could still happen?

 

Mine has ~74000 miles. I'm not gonna freak out about it. But being that I'm in college at the moment I get kinda worried. If something were to happen I'd be paying for my car payment while trying to save up and buy zzp's engine. I really hope it doesn't happen though

 

Well im at the same amount of miles but if my car where to go i can get a replacement in a couple of days they try to get an new engine. But still would rather not have to go thru the whole hassle

 

No reason to constantly worry about it. If you get it you get it, but you probably won't. If you do, you'll just lose coolant into the oil. May as well just keep enjoying your car.

 

Also, I'll tear mine apart in December so I might have pictures of what happens. With any luck I'll be able to cut it out and have a metallurgist take a look at it.

 

Yeah im not really worried about it lol but would suck if it happened

 

It would suck but worrying about it won't change anything. Just do like emechan said and enjoy your car.