My wife has a 2.2 diesel Civic, 57 plate with about 25,000 miles on the clock.

A few days ago, a warning light came on and she lost power. After consulting the handbook, she drove straight to a garage (not a dealer, but one she's used for years). After looking in to it, the garage said that it was one of three possible faults. Apologies as I've lost the piece of paper that I wrote them down on.

The first 2 are fairly cheap to fix (if you call £150 +VAT and labour cheap) and apparently Honda have issued a Service Bulletin about these and there are "uprated" parts to be fitted at the next service.

The third of these faults was/is the ECU. The garage in question has spoken to the local Honda dealer who has said that it appears that this in an inherant fault with certain ECU's on this engine and it is only now becoming apparent. The belief (and I stress the word belief at the moment) is that Honda have discovered this and issued the replacement parts as a fix to prevent the ECU being damaged.

Guess what the cure for my wife's car problem seems to be? :-( And for a 25,000 mile supposedly reliable car.

Questions, anyone else experienced this or heard anything about it?

The Honda Dealer says that Honda are unlikely to contribute anything to the cost as the car is about a year out of warrenty