Faults:
Rattles around the front dashboard and center console. Glove box door replaced at 14,000 miles. Center console door replaced at 15,000 miles. Rattles remain around center console. Dealer wants car left during week to repair. Dealer cannot fix on a Saturday. Dealer refuses a loner car during weekdays to find/repair rattles. I must take a day off work or rent car? I purchased 100,000 mile extended warranty. This is how the dealer repays me!
Transmission recall at 15,000. Dealer installs 2nd gear lubricating mechanism under warranty.
Poor braking at high speeds.
Poor cornering feel at any speed.
General Comments:
The car is very quick, comfortable, spacious, safe and economical.
I don't like the cars handling characteristics. It enters and exits corners with poor road feel.
A cassette player is an option when you get a 6 CD changer?
Too much cheap plastic in the enterior.
31st Dec 2004, 15:17
Honda's are getting poorer? Civics and Accords, anyway. That's what my mechanic thinks. They don't exactly stink, but they aren't the world-beaters they were in 1987-1993. That's predictable - is it not? There are a lot of companies out there breathing down their necks with pretty good machines and low prices. I think Honda will join the rest of the builders whose cars will die a premature death due to crappy wipers, lousy window motors and door handles that come off in your hand and little problems that no one can fix. A generation will remember the good old ones that really never failed and cost nothing to keep going.