Way back in 2014 I was in contact with an Accord owner who like me had bought the '14 Accord. He was Canadian (I'm in upstate NY) and had problems with gasoline in the oil. I thought it was a freak thing. Never had a similar issue.
I do have concerns about running with gasoline in the oil. Unless I am deeply mistaken it can reduce the effective lubrication and cause a bent piston shaft. So I am not sure the advice to smile, be happy, and drive with a lot of gasoline in the oil is a good thing. I started getting Blackstone reports on my old Accord because I wanted to document my oil changes and I was worried about this Canadian guy who had had all these issues. So I figured it was worth it to build up a documented record. And I intend to do that now with my new Accord (I have a '19).
I don't think every post on this topic should be pooh-poohed. These cars are new and this topic is going to slowly gather more information over time.
I will say that I went to a foreign car shop in my area, they only work on Japanese cars (except Nissan, they don't do Nissan) and the guy at the desk didn't think there was anything likely amiss with the accords. It is true that I didn't ask much about the gasoline in the oil problem. We talked quite a bit about the potential for carbon build up on the valves. He said he had run up 150k on his GDI Mitsubishi without issues and he didn't foresee issues with the Accords.
That's what I know as of today. I have been up and down the internet and mostly what it does is make me worry more than I would like. In another thread I'm reading about windshields cracking spontaneously at low mileage and difficulty getting a replacement. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Sometimes we get too much information. Sometimes the information we get is ACCURATE. I remember back in the 90s my Nissan 240SX, I buckled up one day and a piece of plastic broke off the seat belt buckle and, unbelievably, fell inside the buckle and jammed it, so that it was worthless. This is a safety system I believe in so at my personal expense I had a new seat belt installed. A couple of years later I received a recall notice to replace the driver's seat belt saying "It might possibly fracture and a piece of plastic might possibly fall in making it inoperable." Might possibly my a$$. That was EXACTLY what happened. So these weird things....sometimes they happen to YOU. Or to me, anyhow.
That's about it,
Greg N
