TheLoons12 Posted on May 21 2009, 07:23 PM
Fellow CO's! Please cascade this information to your communities!

Several owners and myself have tried calling Honda for resolution without vail. Well, several random phone calls later and we have hope. As of 5pm Pacific time 5/21 Honda NA has issued a TSB for 2005-2009 model years. This is for some year/vin specific cars but pertains to the tears in our tops.

While not posted online yet (should be in the next few days) the TSB #09-033 can be used to take your cars into a local dealership and repairs will be performed to prevent the tearing of your tops. The bulletin should be posted online in the next several days.

The choice of cars outside of warranty to have their tops replaced will be left up to local service managers and RDM. Those that are under warranty it should be under a case by case basis.

I got this information from Albert Chen, Regional Manager over So. Cal Parts and Service Operations. Best of luck and for those that dont have 05-09 keep calling into customer service. Honda needs to recognize they have a problem!!!

 

STANDING OVATION!!!!

I am also working with Russ (our local SR) to let Metro members go to their respective dealers and get the cars sent to Billman or whomever they please.

Billman is GENUINE HONDA APPROVED

 

Weird how they started at '05, plenty of these problems prior to those models.

 

My '04 has a tear that's 2"-3" long in the same spot. (not all the way through yet)
to honda for not covering all years of production.

Any insight as to why that is, Phill?

 

how about my 02 thats developing a tear.. whack

 

none whatsoever. I am still worthless. thanks for checking.


honestly, dunno. even 03's had this problem... maybe not enough "noise" was made about it back then. Raymac's 02' had the same deal. not sure why they would choose to cover the 05's and up.

 

I don't put my top up and down often, I've done it maybe about fifteen times over the year, and I noticed my top starting to rip...I'm going to sand it down, and put a patch. My car is an 07. I ran my finger along the place that needs to be sanded and I got scratches on my fingertip. Interestingly, the left side of the frame in the same spot is smooth.

Does this TSB allow my top to be replaced? Or should I not even bother since it is not ripped all the way through yet?

 

You have a better chance at repair if its been noted before ripping would be my $.02. Still under warranty? If so and you note it and they chose not to replace the top you have a solid beef to get Honda to do so later if it does rip through.

 

does your car need to be covered under warranty to get repaired??

 

Finally Honda acknowledges this problem!