In April my husband and I found a great deal on a 2011 Touring Elite that was a "Program Car" for a golf tournament and it was never used. The car was being sold as used but had never been titled to anyone and had 20 miles on it. I was still able to get the full Honda warranty on the van ....sounded prefect. My Father was very generous and bought the car for me so it is paid for.
Here is my worry. As I drove off the lot the "Tighten Fuel Cap" light came on. I read the manual and gave it couple of days, still stayed on. After driving the car for a week the TPMS light came on. After about 20 min the entire sensor came out ( with my kids in the car) of the tire and I got a flat in about 1.2 seconds. Thank goodness I was only going about 15 MPH or that could have been a deadly accident... the tire went flat so fast I would have been in big trouble.
I had the car towed to Honda and they fixed both issues... but as I drove off the lot the "Tighten Fuel Cap" back on again. I had all three kids with me so I gave up and took the car home. Last week the DVD player quit working, just reads " Bad Disk". The kids have never touched it so I know it's the car
Then TPMS light comes back wen I am out of town so I take it into NTB and they check everything and tell me the tires are fine it must be the sensor. They "reset" it and the light went off for a day or so but is back on again now!!! My dash looks like a Christmas tree.
Honda will not give me a rental or a courtesy vehicle so I am finding it EXTREMELY hard to drag my three small kids back on forth to the dealer each week. So far this car has been in the shop more in 4 months than my 11 year old Toyota was in 5 years.
This is my very first Honda and after reading the forms I wonder if I have made a terrible mistake investing so much in this van. Looks like it has LOTS of issues and Honda can't really come up with a way to fix it. ? Please give me some hope that I didn't just toss 50 grand away.
Here is my worry. As I drove off the lot the "Tighten Fuel Cap" light came on. I read the manual and gave it couple of days, still stayed on. After driving the car for a week the TPMS light came on. After about 20 min the entire sensor came out ( with my kids in the car) of the tire and I got a flat in about 1.2 seconds. Thank goodness I was only going about 15 MPH or that could have been a deadly accident... the tire went flat so fast I would have been in big trouble.
I had the car towed to Honda and they fixed both issues... but as I drove off the lot the "Tighten Fuel Cap" back on again. I had all three kids with me so I gave up and took the car home. Last week the DVD player quit working, just reads " Bad Disk". The kids have never touched it so I know it's the car
Honda will not give me a rental or a courtesy vehicle so I am finding it EXTREMELY hard to drag my three small kids back on forth to the dealer each week. So far this car has been in the shop more in 4 months than my 11 year old Toyota was in 5 years.
This is my very first Honda and after reading the forms I wonder if I have made a terrible mistake investing so much in this van. Looks like it has LOTS of issues and Honda can't really come up with a way to fix it. ? Please give me some hope that I didn't just toss 50 grand away.