Warning to New Owners of Black S2k
08-02-2001, 01:47 PM
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Warning to New Owners of Black S2k
I was travelling near Heathrow yesterday and noticed a new black S2k clearly being delivered to a dealer, no front plate. As it pulled away from the lights you could hear the car in Vtec, so anybody taking delivery of a black S2k take note !
08-02-2001, 02:20 PM
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Makes you wonder if any of our cars were thrashed in the period before ownership... i know my dealer had taken mine 'out' to top up the petrol.... 
Originally posted by gdowsett-uk
I was travelling near Heathrow yesterday and noticed a new black S2k clearly being delivered to a dealer, no front plate. As it pulled away from the lights you could hear the car in Vtec, so anybody taking delivery of a black S2k take note !
I was travelling near Heathrow yesterday and noticed a new black S2k clearly being delivered to a dealer, no front plate. As it pulled away from the lights you could hear the car in Vtec, so anybody taking delivery of a black S2k take note !
08-02-2001, 10:43 PM
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I think we need to put ourselves in the shoes of the people who work with and around our cars across the country.
If a delivery man / mechanic etc has the keys to a supercar within his grasp and his daily drive is a Vauxhall Astra (or similar etc) he is going to be extremely tempted to redline it if at all possible.
I know several mechanics who work for main dealers (one from the Hartwell Honda dealership) and it is not uncommon for cars to be given a hard time.
If you think other people treat your car as you do, you are going to be dissapointed.
I believe part of the service procedure is to have a road test in the car.........I bet the mechanic comes back with a big smile on his face
These cars are built to take abuse, do not worry about it, just enjoy.
If a delivery man / mechanic etc has the keys to a supercar within his grasp and his daily drive is a Vauxhall Astra (or similar etc) he is going to be extremely tempted to redline it if at all possible.
I know several mechanics who work for main dealers (one from the Hartwell Honda dealership) and it is not uncommon for cars to be given a hard time.
If you think other people treat your car as you do, you are going to be dissapointed.
I believe part of the service procedure is to have a road test in the car.........I bet the mechanic comes back with a big smile on his face
These cars are built to take abuse, do not worry about it, just enjoy.
08-03-2001, 10:02 AM
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True, but there is a time and place. I took my ITR into a dealer last weekend. Afterwards 15 miles had been added and they wanted to charge for 1 1/2 hours labour...
Funnily enough I kicked up a stink. I wasn't going to pay for the privelage of giving a mechanic a joyride for coding a key!
-Brian.
Funnily enough I kicked up a stink. I wasn't going to pay for the privelage of giving a mechanic a joyride for coding a key!
-Brian.
08-03-2001, 10:42 AM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bmarshall
[B]True, but there is a time and place. I took my ITR into a dealer last weekend. Afterwards 15 miles had been added and they wanted to charge for
[B]True, but there is a time and place. I took my ITR into a dealer last weekend. Afterwards 15 miles had been added and they wanted to charge for
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bmarshall
[B]True, but there is a time and place. I took my ITR into a dealer last weekend. Afterwards 15 miles had been added and they wanted to charge for
[B]True, but there is a time and place. I took my ITR into a dealer last weekend. Afterwards 15 miles had been added and they wanted to charge for
08-04-2001, 06:56 AM
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Sadly it was more involved than that. I had to kick up a big stink for nearly an hour.... 
only when a lot more customers were about listening did I get anywhere. (This was a Saturday morning - the car was booked in for 9am.)
Eventually they agreed to wave the labour and the alarm handset which halved the bill...
It was actually a big saga. Took a week to get the key in. Then they 'forgot' that it needed an alarm handset as well - it was on the invoice but they had forgotten it. This then took a further week... then they claimed I wasn't booked in for the key coding... finally as you know a key/alarm handset code turned into a mechanics joyride....
There was also a minor problem with the front tracking. They'd set it a few weeks back, but the car didn't feel quite right. Now I've a trackday tomorrow (See ya there Andy.
) so I wanted it right. I didn't want them to do it, but they wouldn't give me the tracking settings so I could have another garage check it. Ended up phoning Honda UK who couldn't tell me, but gave the dealer a kick to tell me. Running out of time so I went to a National Tyres place. The boss was happy to squeeze the car in. They did a great job getting the tracking absolutly spot on. Then there was a nice, polite enquiry from the boss (a youngish lad - early twenties.). He asked if he could see the engine. So I showed him the engine, reved it a bit for him, had a chat etc. Turns out he runs a CRX, but want's a Civic Type-R. He didn't charge me.
Funnily enough I'm not going back to the Honda dealer, but if I have any business for the National Tyres place there, they'll get it.
Shows the two extremes in one saga... one dealership without a clue, and a nice Honda enthusiast. Thankfully 99% of the people I've met to do with the car are in the nicen category.
-Brian.
only when a lot more customers were about listening did I get anywhere. (This was a Saturday morning - the car was booked in for 9am.)Eventually they agreed to wave the labour and the alarm handset which halved the bill...
It was actually a big saga. Took a week to get the key in. Then they 'forgot' that it needed an alarm handset as well - it was on the invoice but they had forgotten it. This then took a further week... then they claimed I wasn't booked in for the key coding... finally as you know a key/alarm handset code turned into a mechanics joyride....
There was also a minor problem with the front tracking. They'd set it a few weeks back, but the car didn't feel quite right. Now I've a trackday tomorrow (See ya there Andy.
) so I wanted it right. I didn't want them to do it, but they wouldn't give me the tracking settings so I could have another garage check it. Ended up phoning Honda UK who couldn't tell me, but gave the dealer a kick to tell me. Running out of time so I went to a National Tyres place. The boss was happy to squeeze the car in. They did a great job getting the tracking absolutly spot on. Then there was a nice, polite enquiry from the boss (a youngish lad - early twenties.). He asked if he could see the engine. So I showed him the engine, reved it a bit for him, had a chat etc. Turns out he runs a CRX, but want's a Civic Type-R. He didn't charge me. Funnily enough I'm not going back to the Honda dealer, but if I have any business for the National Tyres place there, they'll get it.
Shows the two extremes in one saga... one dealership without a clue, and a nice Honda enthusiast. Thankfully 99% of the people I've met to do with the car are in the nicen category.
-Brian.
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