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Originally Posted by INDIAN_VAGABOND Honda and the dealers seem completely out of sync and they better get their house in order asap to make the process devoid of complications to the already disillusioned owners of ANHC like me.
IVB |
Dear ANHC owners.
My car is due for the recall and I havent received any intimation from either Honda or my dealer about it. I had taken my car to the dealer but they said Honda will promulgate the schedfule.
Guys, somehow I still don’t fully understand why the recall is happening one full year after Honda realised that there is a problem.
If Honda had realised as early as Jan 2010 that there is a problem with the engine, they should have immediately brought it to the notice of ANHC owners, irrespective of whether they have found the solution to the defect or not.
They cannot
hide behind the fig leaf that engine-stalling has occurred only in 1% of cars and hence the defect is not a cause of great concern.
The decision on whether to contiune running the car with a defective engine should have been left to the owner of the car because as I understand the defect is common to all cars whereas only in few cars the engine-stalling has physically happened.
Is this a kind of lottery that I hope like hell that the engine of my premium sedan doesn’t stall midway when am on a long drive with my family?
That’s
RIDICULOUS to put it mildly.
That is the prime reason why Iam feeling cheated and assuming that
Honda deliberately kept this under wraps for one full year, only to jack up their sales, at the cost of unsuspecting previous owners.
Even in these testing times, it is we owners who are fiercely defending the manufacturer!
Honda has still not offered a satisfactory explanation or an official communication clarifying the huge time delay of one year in letting the car owners know of the problem and effecting the recall.
Are we 200% sure that continued running with this defect has not caused any other consequential defects to our ANHC engine, that might manifest itself in a catastrophic failure few years down the line?
Can Honda vouch for the success of repairs during recall and say that there wont be any consequential defects to the ANHC engine in the future since we were using a defective spare in the past ?
Now that most of our cars that are subject to this problem are already out of warranty or would run out of warranty in this year,
will Honda consider extending the warranty on the engine by another 2 years, after the car has been recalled and the defect presumably rectified?
One more point for us ANHC owners to ponder is,
let us not be magnanimous and compare other run-of-the-mill brands with HONDA. These things are not expected from Honda, that’s the reason why we chose ANHC in the first place over other cheaper alternatives. Isnt it ?
And what do we get in return after paying almost a 20% premium?
A DEFECTIVE MASTERPIECE !!
Don’t we have every reason to feel ANGRY and CHEATED?
I can never be as charitable as most of us are in this case. As I said, it is not just because the defect has occurred. It has also to do with the suppression of information from previous owners like me for one full year. If they can do this to us today, they can do it to everyone else tommorrow. Because, for them what matters is sales numbers!!
That is why I am seriously
contemplating a court-case to claim damages. I don’t want to associate credibility and realibility with HONDA anymore!!
GENEROSITY – probably yes; because they attending to this defect and recall free of cost.
We are now at the mercy of our most generous manufacturer gentlemen. Therefore, I have serious apprehensions as to how the dealership is going to handle this recall too.
Last but not the least, think of what this defect and recall has done to the resale value of our ANHC.
Nothing can now stop the drastic drop in the resale value of ANHC.
Who would want to buy a car with a known defect in the engine at a premium in second-hand market??
We dont have an alternative but to hope that our generous manufacturer handles this recall well and pray that our ANHC engine remains defect-free in the future!!
IVB