Honda EU10I owners

Hi,
A few weeks back I replyed to Mike Hardings post re generator feed back, it was a late reply so I thought I would repeat it here in case anyone missed it, it was concerning my experence with my EU10i as a mate has had a simalar problem and knowledge is everything.

Well Mike I'm on my 2nd HONDA genny now have the EU20i and no problems but I did have problems with the EU10i a few years back. When I first bought that one I had just sold my 3 way fridge as I found it no good for our camping needs, so I thought why not take my 140l bar fridge from home, the genny ran it like a dream. Problem was had to run it as close to 24hours a day as possible (which wasn't a problem as it was so quiet)would fuel up last thing before retiring and let it go until it ran out of fuel, then first thing in the morning refuel. I used to pride myself on the amount of hours I would get on 2.2l of fuel, up to 12hours, one thing was the low oil cut out would activate if it got a bit low on oil. This we did for a couple of years and no problem until I went to start it in preparation for a trip and noticed it was running rough and not handling even 750w, so took it to the local HONDA dealer for a look next day he said I had a scored bore ( the 1kva has an alloy bore apparently)and it needed replacing as well as the rings, it was caused by carbon build up and a piece breaking off and doing the damage. Thought beauty still under warranty get it fixed for free, but he phoned the next day and said Melbourne head office would not cover it as it was a lack of maintenance issue. I saw red as I did every thing they said in the book even changed the oil every 50hours instead of the suggested 100h, but apparently the newer books say to have the carbon cleaned every 300hours which was not in my book (so I thought I had him there)also he said it was not HONDAs fault that we have bad fuel here in Queensland, so he would not pay. After a couple of phone calls to different people down there over different days they agreed to pay half the repairs so I thought I better take the offer and payed $360 for my half of the recond engine. Was given a new book with updated maintenance schedule and told to only use premium fuel and run it hard every now and then and get the 300h carbon services, which I did until 18months later same problem seemed to be happening again and they told me to put a whole new motor in this time. Well had enough of the alloy bore and now own a 2kva and have 12v fridges and no problems. I must add I probably did about 2000 hours the first time with it idling away with the eco switch on, oh they don't like being left out in the rain either as a mate of mine found out it arked between A and N and cut a groove in the output 240v socket and so needed replacing.
Wazzaaa