i'm pissed out of my ass. yesterday, i got in my car and the stereo controls on my steering wheel stopped working. the buttons on the right work, but the volume, channel, and mode buttons shut down for some reason. and about a month ago, my cd player broke. i'm taking it in for service tomorrow so i hope they won't be bitches about replacing it since i have a interior dash kit put in. i heard that if they can put the blame on any mods i do, they will. i don't know. its bullshit i'm pissed. waste of my time to have to take care of that shit..

on the bright side, my girlfriend just ordered me the oem aero kit and a greddy exhaust (i think, since she didnt specify, but sh eknows what i like)

god damn.

 

they can only blame the mods if its the mods themselves that caused the problem, but yeah, they can be a-holes about it and make up stuff about the mods causing problems. good luck

 

Where I work, we manufacture and sell can making machinery that goes for up to $1.5 million. If a customer makes unauthorized modifications, he can void the warranty. If our field service tech determines that what he did had any relationship to the problem, then it's SOL. It's no different with a new car, a washing machine, or a stereo. You mess with something that's covered, then you have nobody to blame but yourself if it goes bad and they void the warranty. If the problem with yours is in the steering wheel, then they will probably give you no argument. If it's in the dash, then say a prayer.

By the same token, I doubt that they make up reasons not to honor the warranty. Anyone with that poor a business ethic wouldn't be in business for long.

 

business ethics + honda dealer service = joke. check out BBB.org for all the complaints about your local dealer.

 

That sucks about the radio. If your dealer is as nice as the one here then it shouldn't be a prob. I didn't even buy my car there and they're HELLA nice to me. But hell...your girlfriend buys you stuff and obviously has a little knowledge about cars...if she's hot then I'd say you have it made my friend! :thumbup:

 

You won't get me to bite there. My dealer is a straight shooter. I have never in my 40 years of car buying had a better experience than I had buying my Accord. :thumbup: We have 5 local Honda dealers to choose from, so if Schomp hadn't been straight up with me I had plenty of other choices.

 

Can you explain how a glue on dash kit will affect the electrics in any way?? Also I have heard too many stories and quotes of Dealers trying to shift blame for warranty fixes to unrelated mods to buy that last line. Case in point, the V6 tranny problems. Some dealers tried to shift blame to any power mods. One guy I know was told his intake was teh cause when in reality, the few ponies an intake gives isnt enough to kill a tranny, and the number of stock cars with blown trannies was high enough for H of A to extend the warranty on them for 7 yrs/100k.

Dealers dont get reimbursed as much for warranty work as they do when you foot the bill.

 

damn that sucks man. is it the control on the steering wheel not working???

 

mm..i went in for minor service today and to fix my window side molding AND to get my cd player/steering wheel checked up. i dropped my car off at 10 am and didnt get it back until 6pm. they told me it'd be done by 5, but i waited another hour for them to "finish up." anyways, they're ordering me a new stereo---they said the steering wheel control button problems were related to the disfunction with the cdplayer. so i think its all covered. i even got a free car wash. anyways, i hope the stereo comes in soon...my radio doesnt work anymore, after i guess they fidgeted around with it. its pretty messed up. better get fixed soon or im gonna go crazy..

yep my gf got me a greddy exhaust...she wouldn't specify, but said it cost somewhere between 3-500...anyone might know which it is?

 

Since I have no idea what a dash kit is or does, I apologize if I was too strong. My only point was that if you mess with anything remotely related to a warranted item, you run the risk of voiding the warranty. If a dealer can find a reasonable excuse not to cover a repair, then I wouldn't be surprised if he took that approach.