Honda CRV 1.5L Engine Teardown After 30,000 Miles With No Oil Changes

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What happens if you just... don't change your oil, ever? The owner of this 2018 Honda CRV found out the expensive way! Once purchased used with about 120K miles, the owner drove this car without changing the oil, EVER! They drove this car until it barely pulled itself into the driveway. Today we are tearing down the L15BE 1.5L Turbo engine from that 2018 CRV with 153K miles. So how did this engine fair in the depths of neglect? Thats what we find out as we tear this engine all the way down to see the extent of the damage caused by not changing oil. For parts visit www.Importapart.com or email us at [email protected] For other I Do Cars content check out my wife's channel at https://www.youtube.com/@TheCarWifeLife For cool car related shirts, click here! https://www.blipshift.com/?utm_source=i-do-cars&utm_medium=affiliate Every week I post a new teardown video of a blown up or suspected bad engine. Check out a few of my favorites! Ford 1.0 Ecoboost JUNK https://youtu.be/0yx1-50iqnA Fiat 1.4L Multi-Air teardown https://youtu.be/ypxEkt33Ytw Honda Accord K20C4 2.0 Teardown https://youtu.be/w8lSRjLB-4Y Why am I doing this? My name is Eric and I own and run Importapart, a full service auto dismantling business. Part of our model includes buying blown up and bad engines to dismantle for parts. We salvage the good, sellable parts and recycle rest. No, we don't rebuild engines but we do sell parts to people who do! As always I hope you enjoyed this video. I love all of the comments, feedback and even the criticism. Catch you on the next one! -Eric 00:00 Intro 02:30 Removing the coils and plugs, they look ish? 03:20 The turbo is BAD 05:21 Unbolting the intake manifold and looking down the intake ports 05:57 Zipping the valve cover bolts out 06:24 OH, that's the money shot 08:35 The Great Harmonic Balancer Bolt Fight Of Fall 2025 12:14 Unbolting the timing cover 13:50 The VVT Solenoids... YUCK 15:24 Peeling off the timing system parts and inspecting 19:07 Cramming the cam craps loose, removing cams and inspecting all of the valvetrain 21:18 Cracking the head bolts loose, and removing the cylinder head 22:16 First look at the pistons, bores and cylinder head 22:56 SCIENCE 24:24 Unbolting the oil pan 25:13 Take me down to oil sludge city where the varnish is thick and the valves are sticky 25:45 Removing the oil pump and pickup and dismantling them to inspect. Surprising results! 27:28 Removing the connecting rod caps and pushing the pistons to the top of their bores 28:06 Unbolting the main caps, plucking the crank out and then pushing the rods and pistons out of the block 28:55 Complete rotating assembly inspection. Rods, bearings, rings, pistons, crank, bores and *Gulp* Oil filter 31:31 Summary