db4690: Very helpful info. Now Here is the update my friends. All good news (for me). Honda USA contacted the dealership, and then the service director from the dealerships contacted me first thing Saturday morning. They apologized profusely, offered to send someone over to my home ASAP to pick up the car personally, drive it themselves to their (closer) dealership, replace the battery with a new one for free, emailed me a copy of the prior inspection checklist, but planned to do another full inspection (including a few additional higher level tests) and give me a copy of that new testing report as well, fix a few other cosmetic things I mentioned over the phone for free (one involved ordering a part), and drive the car back to my home after this was completed. And he gave me his cell phone number and told me to call him personally if had any problems going forward and he would take care of it. The battery had already been jumped 3 days ago, but when their driver showed up on Saturday, the battery was dead again. The service director continued to inquire on the progress of the car pickup via via text through all of this, and then sent a second person to come to jump start the battery for his driver. The salesperson also called to check in with us. All this to say— Wow. VIP service. Replacing the battery problem (remember it failed twice one week after purchase!) was a nice, appropriate action. The rest of the service though I think was solely because they messed up by not giving (?having) the inspection checklist. I expect this new inspection will be done very well. And I expect that ours was the last car that will leave the dealership without a inspection checklist for awhile. I am a very happy customer.
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