I'm in the midst of working with the dealer now.. just provided my service records, and for good measure wrote a note explaining how I care for the car and that I am the second owner. To whomever said you can't prove what the original owner did, I can.. mine was off lease, and I called the the dealership where the lease was from. I got service records from Jan 2001 (I'm assuming thats when they bought it new) and fortunately, they had all of the oil changes done at the dealership..so I have all of them documented.

As much as I like my vehicle, it is completely unacceptable to have a car that blows an engine at 50K. To those who are saying it isn't, wait until you have a 5-year car loan and within the first year you have to start dealing with a $5K problem that your extended warranty won't cover, and the dealership is waivering on.

I'm fairly certain that after I get it fixed (if its covered), I will probably trade or sell it for another car and give it to my wife, and I'll continue to drive our Honda (which funny enough has 61K miles on it, and we've spent about $9 on.. a headlight bulb).

I will say though, that the Honda isn't as much fun to drive.. but at least its not blowing an engine or using 5 quarts of oil between oil changes like others are experiencing.