"Flatlander" <flatlander47@cox.net> wrote in message
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> 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.
>

All good talking points. I have owned Hondas without a lapse for the
past 26 years myself.

> 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.