No. Please understand what a service bulletin is. Just a supplement to the service manual telling mechanics how to fix stuff. A service bulletin does not entitle you to any free work.

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Thats a very rediculous statement you just made, aside from you kindly linking the TSB. I am entitled to having my car fixed as it is well within warranty with only 8800 miles.

I bought a brand new 2002 Civic Si. At 14K miles, the transmission went out. Honda thought it was my fault, but under inspection the transmission tech showed me it was obviously manufacturing at fault. Ironically enough, my brother who had a 2003 Acura RSX-S had his transmission have the same fate at 13K miles. A good friend of mine at the time had the same Civic as I had, at 17K miles his transmission suffered the same. Honda USA sent technicians to Honda of Murfreesboro and Acura of Nashville at the same time to inspect the problem. I am actually one of the members of multiple past forums that had a TSB and subsequent recall for all of the Civic Si (EP3) and Acura RSX(s) (DC5) across the nation.

I know TSB's, and I know warranties and how companies will try quite hard to weasel their way out of it.

I find this small problem a big pain as I just plopped down a considerable amount of coin for a car that is overall quite reliable and has a tremendous reputation for its solid platform and engineering. But when this type of bit comes around about axles popping and needing to be retorqued and only near 10K miles, its quite aggravating.

For me, the warranty is useful as well as TSB information. As I already stated, my local Nissan dealership (who I did not buy my car from) blatently lied to me and said that there was no TSB for 06-08' models. However, the TSB is non-descriminatory in model year as evidentally all axles were produced in large numbers and probably quite hard to track. And also they evidentally concluded that no harm would come of the trouble, thus, there was no need for a "recall" as it would not pose a threat to motorists.

Get me?

-Jonathan

 

what word goes in there?

 

^^^

"350z" and "-tech"

Put those together.

-Tim

 

Your dealership was accurate that the bulletin only applies to 03-05 model years. That does not mean that it is still not covered under the power train warranty. The dealer that fixes it would not go off of the TSB (replacing all bolts,nuts,cotter pins,ect...) but still can fix it for you.

 

Note: davidv was also accurrate that a TSB does not entitle anyone to free work that is not covered by the factory warranty. If you're still under factory warranty then you don't have anything to worry about.

 

If you do it yourself, make sure you have a good torque wrench. I believe the spec on the bolt is 250 ft/lbs. I re-torque mine everytime I swap my rims/tires after a track event. I also replace the cotterpins if they look like they've moved at all.

FYI: After my new hubs, I haven't had any issues.