No, there's not been a problem with that switch. It unfortunately failed and
didn't make it to its life expectancy. But I suppose you expected it to last
forever. Yeah, 38,000 miles or 2-3 years is a little short but s--t happens.
Stop whining over trivial items. Save it for a serious matter, when you
really may need Honda's help. I'll bet you never visit your dealer for your
maintenance but your there bright and early every time they have something
free for you, like any warranty work or product update. And there you go
demanding free parts, free labor, demanding something you think you deserve
but is not spelled out in any contract or warranty. You yell and scream you
got ripped off because they wanted a few extra dollars for their expertise
and knowledge and/or tools that made it able for them to know immediately
what was wrong with your switch. Maybe they get $70 or $80 an hour labor,
but I'm sure you would have felt a whole bunch better to bring it to your
local greasemonkey and pay him "only" $45 an hour for the two hours he would
spend trying to figure out what the problem was, if he could figure it out
the first time.
Get a life!
"Hand" <hand@engineer.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone else out there have a problem with the side view mirror switch
> on their 1999-2004 Honda Odyssey? The side view mirror switch on my
> wife's 2002 Ody would not move either mirror in the UP direction (left
> side or right side mirror) but it would move them left, right, or
> down.
>
> When the van was at the Honda dealer this past week getting the
> transmission recall service, I had them troubleshoot the problem and
> it turned out that the switch was broken (faulty, defective). The
> Honda dealer wanted $75 to replace it (parts+labor)!!! I had to laugh,
> seemed like way too much money to replace a simple switch. I was
> fortunate though that they didn't charge me for troubleshooting the
> problem (not that it was too hard to figure out) and I did end up
> buying the switch from them (~$23 including tax) and had it replaced
> before I left the dealer's lot! It took less than two minutes to
> replace it! $75 bucks, what a joke.
>
> Anyhow, the bag that the switch came in said "Japan" or "Made in
> Japan" on it but I noticed that the switch I replaced had a "Mexico"
> label on it. I was just wondering if there may be a quality issue
> involved here? So, I just wanted to know if anyone else had the same
> problem. Unfortunately, the van was out of warranty (38,000 miles) so
> I had to pick up the bill. I'm still planning on writing Honda to
> "complain". Who knows, they may pick up the tab.
>
> Thanks for the feedback.