What is the price of the clutch alone, I think people have paid dealers £700 plus but as he has a lot of the stuff stripped off anyway you are probably saving in labour.
Cant comment in the bearings but seems a reasonable precaution, no expert but the price seems good to me

 

Price of the clutch on its own would be £706 including labour. So the additional £390-odd is for the bearings, fluid and sundries (plus a bit of extra labour for fitting the bearings).

 

A quick update on this. I originally agreed to the quoted price of £1096, and got the car booked in for the work - but on the off-chance, I subsequently contacted Honda UK to see if they might be able to help me out.

My reasoning, as I put it to them, was that the input shaft bearing should be able to survive longer than 50k miles. Especially since the car was serviced by Honda every year, in which case there should be no chance of the gearbox running dry etc and damaging the bearing. Honda UK said they would raise a ticket, and come back to me within 48 hours. I felt fairly hopeful at this point, thinking I might get a couple of hours of labour knocked off the price.

Later the same day, I got a call from Bristol Honda. They'd had a call from Honda UK, who agreed to pay the full cost for all bearings, fluid and sundries. I would pay for labour and the clutch. That brought the total cost down to £676 inc. What an absolute result!

Anyway, the work is now done - the difference is night and day. Feather-light clutch, smooth gearshift, no noise from the gearbox, and best of all, the engine seems to have a little more poke. The mechanic did mention that several of the other bearings were getting pretty stiff, so it's likely that a small amount of power was being sapped as a result.

The main thing I'm taking away from this is that it's always, always worth a call to Honda UK to see if they will offer a goodwill gesture, even if the car is out of warranty (like mine). I suspect they see reports of multiple failures on a specific part, and in order to avoid having to carry out a recall, if they're challenged they will actually help out the owner. FHSH is obviously useful to back you up.

Overall I'm pretty impressed with Honda on this one!

 

Nice result. I've had the same experience with my 2.2 Civic. My EPS went faulty and because it had FHSH, they paid the full £680 bill even though it was out of warranty

 

what noise does the input shaft bearing make?

 

It's a constant whirr / rattle from the gearbox at idle, out of gear, when the clutch is not depressed. When the clutch pedal is depressed, the noise stops.

 

super result mate, phoned honda uk a few times and had results myself...

 

Good for Honda UK once again. They stepped in and covered the cost when the warranty company refused to replace worn shock bushings on my car with only 18K miles on it.

 

I do think they get a bad rap to be honest. Every time I've asked them for advice or assistance, they've been nothing but excellent.