My Dealership Nightmare...

[I Vtec, do you?]

Originally Posted by tukai

I always say there is no one cooler on this site than you. However you are wrong on this. It is not required at all to drill holes into the bumper to mount the lp. there are mounts underneath the bumper sort of where an intercooler would be that it bolts right onto.

Originally Posted by volvo9

HONDA designed it like this, the dealer is just finishing their job as part of the PDI process.

I worked at Acura for 2 years and we installed the upper bumper screw on every car, no one complained. The plate bracket is just a little floppy only using 2 screws so leave the top one out and people will complain it's floppy, install it and people will complain of a hole in the bumper because they want to remove their plate and break a law.

This is what I mean tukai. I'm not saying that we NEED the holes drilled in our bumpers, I'm just saying that they're doing what they're told to do. When they get the car, part of the process of getting it ready for sale is drilling that hole. I dislike it just as much as you guys, but I'm not about to walk into Honda and yell at them for doing their job.

[ronin]

Originally Posted by seguitarist

It's all about how they resolve the issue, if they treat the issue well, they deserve their presidents award sill.

But it seems like every dealership you go into has awards of some sort hanging up. They seem to be giving them out like they were going out of style.

[Doppler Bob]

Originally Posted by I Vtec, do you?

This is what I mean tukai. I'm not saying that we NEED the holes drilled in our bumpers, I'm just saying that they're doing what they're told to do. When they get the car, part of the process of getting it ready for sale is drilling that hole. I dislike it just as much as you guys, but I'm not about to walk into Honda and yell at them for doing their job.

I'm not bitching at the dealership for doing it. That's fine. But give the owner, the person who paid 20k for the car the OPTION of whether or not to drill that unnecessary hole!

Besides, there are other options to put the plate in other places, of which I was planning on.

And the dings and scratches? I think I definitely can bitch about that.

I got the car fixed and back. They rubbed out the entire hood, fixed the hole and took out the ding. Everything looks great. If you didn't know that hole was ever there, you'd never know. Pics to come.

My service guy the whole time was great. Lesson to take from this: Do a complete walk around with your service person EVERY TIME before you drop the car off for ANY service!

[jlannoo]

I'm glad we don't need a front plate in Michigan and can just avoid all this. My front bracket will continue to sit in its bag in front of my donut spare.

[taffysi]

My holes were drilled in already along with all the other civics in the dealership's. I'm sure other dealerships have it done to mount whatever license plate bracket they had. I assumed it was what they were instructed to do.

[taffysi]

Originally Posted by darkrom

Ugh nightmare indeed. My dealer sold me the car with the mounting bracket, so I assumed it was drill free. I found out about 4 months later when the snow cleared that this was not the case. Still trying to figure out what to do with it now.

I think you should do nothing. If you were fine with it before not knowing that it was drilled in, why are you worrying now?

[natedog_37]

When I went to pickup my 08 SI the dealer put screws in my bumper to hold the front plate on even though I live in MI "no front plates" and I told them not to. They replaced the bumper for free.