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I waited in an over-air-conditioned room at Honda Service for three hours for my car, only to have them tell me at the end that it turns out they need an inflator they don't have and wouldn't know that in advance just from knowing the make and year, so they have to order the part, which will arrive Tuesday, and I have to come back and wait for another two hours for them to install that. So it'll be 5 hours total to replace my passenger-side airbag, and I don't know if what's currently in there will work.
Honda Service! The only way this would totally be my usual experience with them is if they ridiculously overcharged me for it, but since it's a recall they can't.
Oh, I asked them if they could try to fasten shut the casing on my steering column, which has been open since they recall replaced the driver's airbag March of last year. Guy got snippy with me saying it's not usual to open that to replace the steering wheel airbag, which is a lie. (One of the reasons I got more for my car last year from the insurance company was that I'd never deployed the airbag and thus the column casing was still shut tight. Thank God I did that recall after all that thing with my car getting hit by my neighbor and his insurance company being a bag of dicks was over with.) I told him it was tightly shut until that replacement, so he said he'd try to refasten it but didn't know how long it would hold.
When I got my car back, there was a clumsy and very visible glue line along the area, and it had already popped back open.
Fuckers.
btw, they asked me if I'd sit through their "exchange your current Honda with a new one" spiel. I know I can't afford it, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to get an idea of how much I can't. It didn't offer much constructive information since they can't give me real figures until my car was thoroughly looked over so they can say what they'd offer for it, I went to a bank to get a loan, my credit history was looked into, etc. so it was basically useless aside from depressing the hell out me about how deeply in shit I am financially. But as an estimate based on jack shit, he said I'd probably pay $300 a month, which would be impossible since I'm scared of what little is in my bank account right now with the extra expense. (And I'm not exaggerating, I am very worried.)
Also got to test drive a 2013 Civic and found out that saying they put "cushions" in their seats would be a misnomer. Uncomfortable as hell: hard, super firm, and not much constructive back support. When I complained about the seats the guy said I could get them upholstered with leather instead of cloth, to which I answered that that wouldn't help. I asked if you could get better cushioning or seats for more money, and he had no idea what I was talking about.
But the 2013 Civic has a bluetooth thing and a USB port! (Salesman: "It has bluetooth!" Me: "I don't have a phone that uses that, but yay?")
Though the rear camera option was nice.
Anyway, when I told him I was broke and why, the guy took me outside the building and said he works another job for a legal firm where supposedly they give free financial advice and that if I made an appointment to see their presentation I'd be entered into a drawing that might win me $250,000. (Or I might lose.) I internet-checked the address to see that it is a legal firm on that floor but it sounds kinda... off to me.
It'd be a trip to downtown Manhattan, and I'd have to show up in business attire, which might be possible on a good day, though I 'm somewhat wider in the middle now than I was when I bought the business attire I have in my closet. He didn't say how long that presentation would be. Or how much of a hard sell on whatever. I'd have to wear my walking shoes until I got in the building, because I'm somewhat unsteady and ankle-bendy in pumps with heels these day. Given how badly his Exchange presentation left me feeling, I don't know if it's worth it. He only gave me the address and his phone number. I don't know the name of the division he's in or whatever. I was tired and upset during his spiel, and he was giving the Good Parts edition.
So I left Honda Service depressed, angry, stressed out, and exhausted.
Honda Service! The only way this would totally be my usual experience with them is if they ridiculously overcharged me for it, but since it's a recall they can't.
Oh, I asked them if they could try to fasten shut the casing on my steering column, which has been open since they recall replaced the driver's airbag March of last year. Guy got snippy with me saying it's not usual to open that to replace the steering wheel airbag, which is a lie. (One of the reasons I got more for my car last year from the insurance company was that I'd never deployed the airbag and thus the column casing was still shut tight. Thank God I did that recall after all that thing with my car getting hit by my neighbor and his insurance company being a bag of dicks was over with.) I told him it was tightly shut until that replacement, so he said he'd try to refasten it but didn't know how long it would hold.
When I got my car back, there was a clumsy and very visible glue line along the area, and it had already popped back open.
Fuckers.
btw, they asked me if I'd sit through their "exchange your current Honda with a new one" spiel. I know I can't afford it, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to get an idea of how much I can't. It didn't offer much constructive information since they can't give me real figures until my car was thoroughly looked over so they can say what they'd offer for it, I went to a bank to get a loan, my credit history was looked into, etc. so it was basically useless aside from depressing the hell out me about how deeply in shit I am financially. But as an estimate based on jack shit, he said I'd probably pay $300 a month, which would be impossible since I'm scared of what little is in my bank account right now with the extra expense. (And I'm not exaggerating, I am very worried.)
Also got to test drive a 2013 Civic and found out that saying they put "cushions" in their seats would be a misnomer. Uncomfortable as hell: hard, super firm, and not much constructive back support. When I complained about the seats the guy said I could get them upholstered with leather instead of cloth, to which I answered that that wouldn't help. I asked if you could get better cushioning or seats for more money, and he had no idea what I was talking about.
But the 2013 Civic has a bluetooth thing and a USB port! (Salesman: "It has bluetooth!" Me: "I don't have a phone that uses that, but yay?")
Though the rear camera option was nice.
Anyway, when I told him I was broke and why, the guy took me outside the building and said he works another job for a legal firm where supposedly they give free financial advice and that if I made an appointment to see their presentation I'd be entered into a drawing that might win me $250,000. (Or I might lose.) I internet-checked the address to see that it is a legal firm on that floor but it sounds kinda... off to me.
It'd be a trip to downtown Manhattan, and I'd have to show up in business attire, which might be possible on a good day, though I 'm somewhat wider in the middle now than I was when I bought the business attire I have in my closet. He didn't say how long that presentation would be. Or how much of a hard sell on whatever. I'd have to wear my walking shoes until I got in the building, because I'm somewhat unsteady and ankle-bendy in pumps with heels these day. Given how badly his Exchange presentation left me feeling, I don't know if it's worth it. He only gave me the address and his phone number. I don't know the name of the division he's in or whatever. I was tired and upset during his spiel, and he was giving the Good Parts edition.
So I left Honda Service depressed, angry, stressed out, and exhausted.