Good Day To All,
For the Past three years I have been battling with American Honda to repair the Rust that is developing on the interior or my Rear Suicide Doors. The pictures are very straight forward and the official stance that Honda has taken is "...the rust must penetrate the body panel before it will be repaired under warranty." Now that I am out of warranty it will run me over $1300 to repair this rust because it is now able to be penetrated. I want to post these images so that if you are having the same problem that you shouldn't expect Honda to cover it under warranty or even their Hondacare bumper to bumper extended warranty. My advice to you is penetrate the rust to get it covered, as my local Honda rep stated, I only need to be able to get the head of a needle through it to cover it. Needless to say I am not willing to intentionally damage my Honda. I have not and will not damage any of the Eight (8) Hondas that I have owned over the past 14 years. The sad part is that I bought her new off of the showroom and cosmetically and mechanically babied her since she became mine. The rust will only spread and get worse, so start logging complaints today to create a history of the failure. This is just a forewarning to all of you E-owners out there.
A seriously disappointed Element Owner.
The Hulls
I can not get the pictures to insert, so check out the pictures on our page at:
http://www.elementownersclub.com/forums/album.php?albumid=334
For the Past three years I have been battling with American Honda to repair the Rust that is developing on the interior or my Rear Suicide Doors. The pictures are very straight forward and the official stance that Honda has taken is "...the rust must penetrate the body panel before it will be repaired under warranty." Now that I am out of warranty it will run me over $1300 to repair this rust because it is now able to be penetrated. I want to post these images so that if you are having the same problem that you shouldn't expect Honda to cover it under warranty or even their Hondacare bumper to bumper extended warranty. My advice to you is penetrate the rust to get it covered, as my local Honda rep stated, I only need to be able to get the head of a needle through it to cover it. Needless to say I am not willing to intentionally damage my Honda. I have not and will not damage any of the Eight (8) Hondas that I have owned over the past 14 years. The sad part is that I bought her new off of the showroom and cosmetically and mechanically babied her since she became mine. The rust will only spread and get worse, so start logging complaints today to create a history of the failure. This is just a forewarning to all of you E-owners out there.
A seriously disappointed Element Owner.
The Hulls
I can not get the pictures to insert, so check out the pictures on our page at:
http://www.elementownersclub.com/forums/album.php?albumid=334
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