Here We Ago Again

[DLRioM]

yo man,i have worked for dealerships,had friends that worked for dealerships and can tell u some horror stories.i left because they tried to get me to do something dodgy(12 years ago)most of them will try to feed you crap and it is worce if you are young.keep persisting and fight it all the way.maybe try to contact honda australa direct.cheers.

Thanx for the suggestion.
A lady from Honda Aus called this morning to organise the insurance. She was great. Understood you cant back date insurance and even said to me i should get full 12months!! She organising it now. Seems it may work out.

I know what you are saying tho. You really need to know everything before you walk into the dealership otherwise they eat you alive. The guy that sold me my car knew jack about the model.....whilst he was trying to sell it to me he was mentioning all kinds of features i knew the car didnt have...

It annoys me cos its not necessary....Just tell me the facts and ill make up my mind thanx. I found that out in Real Estate ages ago.... If you try and fool someone it just make 10times more work trying to cover it up. Do the right thing and its smooth sailing..

[tron07]

Honda Australia's promotion for the Euro is 12 month insurance.... and you got nothing for the frist 8 month.... so you should demand for the free 12 month, not 3 or 4 month insurance.

If you got in an accident, I doubt the insurance company will bother to entertain you, at most you will have to get a lawyer to make the dealer to pay or repair for you but then they can also claim its your problem for not checking and making sure your car is insured. So you probably will be on the loosing end.

Luckily for you, nothing happen, so you should demand for the 12 month insurance as you are entittle to.

[aaronng]

Make sure you tell Honda Australia which dealer it was that didn't follow through with the insurance. We need to reduce the number of dodgy dealers around....

[civ04]

thats exactly right,you cant totally put the blame on honda,the blame should be put on these dodgy dealers that try to take advantage of the average Joe.

[DLRioM]

update........for anyone interested.

Honda Aus is only giving me the remiander of 3months because they have back dated the insurance and dont want to explain anything further. Fair enough if its back dated technically i got my 12months. Im not prepared to take it further.

but..........

Repair to my dashboard was done yesterday with very interesting results. I can see they pulled apart the dash because of the chunks taken out of the edges but the part was not replaced??? nothing was done as far as i can see.

I dont know whetha they are just extremely incompetent or were trying to tell me to piss off but thats it. Iv given up. I wont be taking my car there again, lucky for me im moving to sydney in a few months. Ill find a new dealership there. But these guys are a joke, suprised they havent been on ACurrentAffair.

[tron07]

I will not accept that back dated insurance..... technically you got 12 mth, but if in an accident, or in teh event of a total loss, I dont think they can back date or the insurance company will accept that.

At least get few FOC service, or wax & polish job, or soemthing worth the money if you were to accept it.

[DLRioM]

I will not accept that back dated insurance..... technically you got 12 mth, but if in an accident, or in teh event of a total loss, I dont think they can back date or the insurance company will accept that.

At least get few FOC service, or wax & polish job, or soemthing worth the money if you were to accept it.

Well i received the certificete of insurance which shows my car is insured from march 2007 until march 2008 so if its on paper that i always had the insurance and i have nothing in writing to say it wasnt, i really dont have a case.

PLus with the stuff up of the repair its driving me mental and i think i should let it go before i lose my mind. Under normal circumstances i would fight for what i am entitled to but this dealership may as well be speaking another language. They just dont get it.

I learnt my lesson. I dropped it off to repair a fault and not only did i get it back with the fault unfixxed but they did more damage than it was worth in the first place........u cant win.

[tony1234]

That's bullshit with the dash repair.If they put scratches on the dash then they have to fix it that's it,no argument.Notify HA in writing and maybe wait till you move to Sydney.I and a few others here can recommend some good dealers here in sydney.

[DLRioM]

That's bullshit with the dash repair.If they put scratches on the dash then they have to fix it that's it,no argument.Notify HA in writing and maybe wait till you move to Sydney.I and a few others here can recommend some good dealers here in sydney.

LOL yeah ill wait until i get to Sydney. If i demand they fix the dash now ill have to take yet another day off to get it done and i know they are not capable of doing a good job anyway.