Bennyt
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Many of the new Hondas (less than 5 years old) are GDI. With a quick search of a Honda Fit forum among other models, you’ll find quite a few people complaining about their GDI engines having issues with bad valves and injectors. The “earth dream” technology engines are particularly notorious.
I’ll reiterate, it’s not a problem particular to Hondas, but all makes with GDI engines...BMW, Mini, Honda, Kia, GM. It’s across the board. All of these companies also make reliable stuff, I’d just steer clear of their models with GDI and stick with MPFI. My post was in reference to the newer stuff as the title of the post was getting “a new compact car”
Your ‘old beater’ Honda and the ‘lean burn’ Hondas into the early 2000s were great cars. However, with cars getting safer(heavier) and demanding higher average MPG for the make, they’re having to do things like GDI.
I own one GDI car and it is a pain in the ass. Its a fun and very quick little car but still a PITA. It's a 2009 HHR SS. 2.0 Turbo that makes 270hp in low boost(16psi) and 330 hp at 23psi from the dealer. The car shocks everyone as they don't know about the turbo SS models and the amount of power they have.
You have to run "Top Tier" fuels in GDI cars or the intake valves get gummed up very easily. The turbo of course also necessitates Premium. I also run GDI cleaner before every oil change.
My neighbor has a GDI KIA and he was using gas from the local Frys/ Kroger/ Safeway, etc and he said he was using a lot of oil. I talked to him about the "Top Tier" fuels and he said after he switched to Costco "Top Tier" about 75% of his oil consumption issue went away. He hasn't yet done the GDI cleaner. Most people don't even know about the GDI issues. 3 Years ago I had to special order cleaner, now the local parts stores stock it.