Ohhhhhh.............you mean they havn't torn anything apart, and just pulled crap out of their asses. In that case, it's probably nothing. Did something feel wrong when driving the car? If not they are idiots.

EDIT: dang, someone got me again

 

well i hope so, he had the engine all ripped apart when I left.

Funny thing is, if the light wouldn't have went on I wouldn't have noticed a thing wrong with the car.

 

I hope so, I am in pain thinking my car is hurt lol.

 

Dood, get that jr. wrench off yer ride...he's a foo yo!

 

Yeah, I would have said take your car as far away from that dealership as physically possible, but he said they already started tearing it down. They should have listened to the valvetrain with a mechanics stethoscope before tearing into the motor. Even so, 99.9% of the time you will hear audible ticking/clicking if a valve has been damaged.

 

With the 4G63, you hear audible ticking from the valvetrain on most undamaged engines. I've seen this on a joke along the lines of... You might be a DSM owner if you can pick your car out of a lineup by its valvetrain noise.

 

That's pretty funny, but you should have heard the racket that would emanate from my last car, a 2002 ss. That thing slapped so bad on cold starts you'd swear you were listening to a power stroke diesel!!

 

my Audi's always made that ticking sound too.

 

the evo burns oil. did you check your oil level.

 

Both of my Mitsu's have had lifter tick, the easiest remedy I have found is Restore 2 in 1 stuff that is supposed to improve compression on older engines. anyways this stuff always stopped the ticking after oil changes

 

I found out yesterday that it is definately a bent valve in the 4th cylinder....sucks.

 

Tell them you want to keep the bent valve. If you get it take pictures and post them.
Also while in there tell them you want a full list of all test performed and parts replaced for this job. Keep good records! Cover your *** for the future.

 

The service techs ordered me a whole bunch of parts, the only thing visibly wrong is the bent valve. But, to be sure they are replacing a ton of parts. I will post a list when I know what.

 

I would assume that it was an intake valve if it backfired correct? It sounds like one of the guys at the dealership gave that poor thing a hard 20 miles. But after this it should be good to go!

 

I had same issue around 2k miles too, my engine light came up, when I was doing 100 on I-95, took to dealer, turn out to be one of spark plug miss fire, I guess I was lucky