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Just thought I would share my experience. Maybe someone reading this will be a little wiser than I was.
I never had a PlusOne seat in my 2007 Touring, but we often use the storage bin as a seat, if we need an 8th. Of course the bin does not have a seat belt, so the lack of a seat belt if I DID have a PlusOne seat was really not a concern. SO I thought it would be more convenient to have a plus one from a 2010 EXL since it would have a back rest, and the 2010 version doubles as a storage bin.
I found a used PlusOne seat for sale locally for $80 from a 2010. The leather color matched perfectly, so I gladly gave the seller $80 and popped it into the van. The seller is not an Odyssey owner, so he wasn't sure if it worked.
I could not get the backrest to tilt, so I figured it had to be installed in the van and with the leverage of the floor hooks I could get it to tilt.
Bad move.
I got it in. The leather form the 2010 matches perfectly to the 2007 Touring, and I would br able to retain the storage space that the Touring comes with, since the 2010 actually has storage under the seat.
Now that I had it in the van I tried to tilt it. No luck. The seller did not know how it worked since he got it from another person. So I tried to remove it, and I could not get it out.
I figured I was doing something wrong, so I drove over to the nearest dealer.
They told me that it is seized. There was no "trick" to release the seat if it gets seized. They would need to disassemble it piece by piece to get it out, which would be about 3 hours of labor. Then they would need to order the specific parts that were stuck, and replace them.
He told not to worry, since the Honda Care warranty would cover everything. Then I told him that its an '07 Touring which does not have a factory PlusOne seat. The seat was from a 2010. Of course, Honda Care would NEVER cover this mess up, so he said it would be in the neighborhood of $600+ to remove, and fix the seat. I declined that path of course...
So I asked them to simply remove it. Destroy the seat if they had to. I figured it was not worth it to fix the damn thing, and since I never had one in the first place, I could do without it. They charged me $99 to slice the sides of the plastic enclosure and get to the cables that release the hooks on the bottom. The simply popped the cables out, they are just like bicycle brake cables BTW, and they then seat was free.
The original seller would not give me my money back since it had to be destroyed to get it out of the car for a reasonable cost. He claims he did not know that the seat was defective, since he himself had never installed it. Judging by the leather, it looked like it was in great shape.
The end of the story, is I'm out almost $200 and I don't have a PlusOne seat. The good part is that I didn't pay for shipping which seems to be a ton for these things since they are quite heavy.
The lesson here is, before you buy a used PlusOne seat confirm with the seller that the seat has been installed recently in THEIR ODYSSEY. Verify with the seller that it was not stored in an area that could have caused it to corrode. If it's been in the van the entire time, then that would probably be best.
I hope this helps someone out there...learn from my mistake.
I never had a PlusOne seat in my 2007 Touring, but we often use the storage bin as a seat, if we need an 8th. Of course the bin does not have a seat belt, so the lack of a seat belt if I DID have a PlusOne seat was really not a concern. SO I thought it would be more convenient to have a plus one from a 2010 EXL since it would have a back rest, and the 2010 version doubles as a storage bin.
I found a used PlusOne seat for sale locally for $80 from a 2010. The leather color matched perfectly, so I gladly gave the seller $80 and popped it into the van. The seller is not an Odyssey owner, so he wasn't sure if it worked.
I could not get the backrest to tilt, so I figured it had to be installed in the van and with the leverage of the floor hooks I could get it to tilt.
Bad move.
I got it in. The leather form the 2010 matches perfectly to the 2007 Touring, and I would br able to retain the storage space that the Touring comes with, since the 2010 actually has storage under the seat.
Now that I had it in the van I tried to tilt it. No luck. The seller did not know how it worked since he got it from another person. So I tried to remove it, and I could not get it out.
I figured I was doing something wrong, so I drove over to the nearest dealer.
They told me that it is seized. There was no "trick" to release the seat if it gets seized. They would need to disassemble it piece by piece to get it out, which would be about 3 hours of labor. Then they would need to order the specific parts that were stuck, and replace them.
He told not to worry, since the Honda Care warranty would cover everything. Then I told him that its an '07 Touring which does not have a factory PlusOne seat. The seat was from a 2010. Of course, Honda Care would NEVER cover this mess up, so he said it would be in the neighborhood of $600+ to remove, and fix the seat. I declined that path of course...
So I asked them to simply remove it. Destroy the seat if they had to. I figured it was not worth it to fix the damn thing, and since I never had one in the first place, I could do without it. They charged me $99 to slice the sides of the plastic enclosure and get to the cables that release the hooks on the bottom. The simply popped the cables out, they are just like bicycle brake cables BTW, and they then seat was free.
The original seller would not give me my money back since it had to be destroyed to get it out of the car for a reasonable cost. He claims he did not know that the seat was defective, since he himself had never installed it. Judging by the leather, it looked like it was in great shape.
The end of the story, is I'm out almost $200 and I don't have a PlusOne seat. The good part is that I didn't pay for shipping which seems to be a ton for these things since they are quite heavy.
The lesson here is, before you buy a used PlusOne seat confirm with the seller that the seat has been installed recently in THEIR ODYSSEY. Verify with the seller that it was not stored in an area that could have caused it to corrode. If it's been in the van the entire time, then that would probably be best.
I hope this helps someone out there...learn from my mistake.