SHAME On You HONDA or Are CR-V Owners Being Whiners?

Sounds like American car buyer in the 80's

Actually, the Japanese are still doing that today (but of course, you conveniently denied to read the article, your answer was written in your head before you started your computer this morning).

Side note: Read about the ECU flaw of Toylex?

Living close to the Mexican border and blasting the ac unit for 6-8 years takes its toll on moving parts. Its her fault for maxing out a component.

Name one company that warrantee their vehicle for 80K miles, bumper to bumper. If you can, then, Honda is in the wrong.

Slow news day, huh?

What a dummy. She wants her AC fixed at 80,000 miles 8 years after she purchased the car,under warranty? hahahahah Your lucky if the stealership does anything for your car let alone fix the AC past the warranty. Either way,get a new car or fix it.

Seriously?

This is the kind of shit you get from people who think their car is an appliance, thinking all these complicated parts will work perfectly forever.

To elaborate on my point, the automobile is the single most complicated human invention today, as it is comprised of also every other gadget and piece of technology we have in our lives (a TV, a stereo, A/C, internal combustion, materials: rubber, steal, plastics, leather, computer controlled electonric systems, etc. etc.

When your TV craps out on you, the picture and sound can stop working. You should be angry because now the tv is useless. If you NAV system and stereo stops working in your car, you can still drive the car!!

There are shops that can get the parts and fix it to you cheap. If you're really concerned about this, then take a frickin bus.

The A/C on my 2007 Civic is so bad I took it in a the first time I used it because it barely works, and I live on the coast in Canada, they measured the temp. of the A/c and it was unfortunately up to Honda's standards, I was not impressed, even if they put a new one in it would still barely work.

Living in South Florida, we basically expect the A/C units, nearly continuously over the life of a car, to fail around that time. I don't like to give Honda a break, but an 80,000 mile major service to the a/c system seems about right.

Many people here buy extended warrantees, just to cover that inevitable repair.

I am a bit surprised to hear that the broken compressor damages the rest of the system, though. That could be a design flaw. If the a/c can't do the job in Canada, I shudder to think how inadequate the system would be down here. That does sound like very bad design. Surprising. Southern Japan is pretty warm.

READ THE STORY it's not about the failure of the unit at all it's about the cost of getting it fixed.