On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:22:36 -0700, "Stewart" <gortamus36@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>
>"Seth" <seth_lermanNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:hb5ur7$vrn$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>> "Tegger" <invalid@invalid.inv> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9CA4D5DB9C01Etegger@208.90.168.18...
>>> Flatlander <flatlander47@cox.net> wrote in
>>> news:7crcd51o1f8n27k5u3mika24g1crc34s66@4ax.com:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the great information and good tips. I'm not sure
>>>> whether
>>>> the daugher is up to pushing at the dealer. May take it there
>>>> myself
>>>> when we're down there at Thanksgiving. Doing something like
>>>> picking
>>>> up the labor would certainly be a reasonable cost repair!
>>>
>>> Remember: Be polite and be reasonable. This is /critical/.
>>>
>>> You will be trying to use your diplomatic prowess to convince the
>>> dealer
>>> to negotiate with Honda on your behalf to repair a vehicle that is
>>> very
>>> much out of warranty.
>>
>>
>> And don't forget the "my young daughter with MANY years of car
>> buying ahead of her...".
>
>Unless her Civic lasts her a lifetime.......

Hah...it just might. We're still driving her '87 CRX that she had in
college. It's got 151k on it now. At the rate she's going, she'll
pass that up with the Civic in another year. We've had at least one
Honda in the fleet since the original '76 Accord. We've been an
all-Honda family for about 15 years now.

Thanks for the advice, Tegger. Yeah, no point in being adversarial
with the dealer. They're doing a favor and have nothing to lose in
the deal. I'm probably going to trade the 2001 Accord we have before
this kind of thing develops.