It's all about having a Hothatch

Have you ever had such a passion about a car that you wanted to share it with the world? Well I'm a hatchback fan and have been all of my life. I've had four cars in my life and they all have been Honda hatchbacks. So why not have a site dedicated to hatchbacks? Here is the start of my site dedicated to my HOT HATCHBACKS!

Monday, March 27, 2006

What is going on here?

I went to go pick up my car and all looked well until I returned the rental car. As I was on my way back to the dealer they called and had me get the rental car back. There had been an accident. Yep ANOTHER issue occurred at the dealership. As they were bringing my car into the carport the overhead door came down and slammed into the spoiler. What is the luck that two different dealers would damage my car? Well it happened. This was Friday and I brought the car home anyway for the weekend. So I figure I need to wash it after all of the hands all over it. Guess what? I find that they have damaged the underside of the passenger side skirt. Yep even more damage! I know it happened at the dealer because It was fine when I washed it a week ago. I know I wash it more than that normally but the dealer had it waxed and detailed And I knew I had to take it to the dealer again in a day or two anyway. It's Monday and I dropped of my car again at the dealer for them to repair the damage they did to the spoiler and to hunt down the source of the noise in the door. I'm stuck with a Ford focus zx4 again. Have I mentioned that these things are terrible? I can't believe all of the damage the car has had. It's been more than the CRX I had for 14 years. I'm so tired of all the crap with this that I'm not even going to write more about it tonight. I'll post some pictures of the damage and the section of the window seal that was the cause of the leak later.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

The Hothatchback is in the shop with...

Well the Si is back in the shop again. It started with a leak running into the floorboard, split window seals and a sunroof squeak. Turns out that the leak was coming from the windshield as expected. Honda has covered the repairs so far and I'm happy with that but the dealer did gouge the inside pillar, the sunroof switch and headliner aren't in place correctly, and the door panel was beat up pretty badly where they took one side off to replace the window seal. The good thing about all of this is that they recognize that they did all of the damage and are making amends. Unlike Curry Honda whom I hate, Ed Voyles knows what CUSTOMER SERVICE is. Let me state that again CURRY HONDA has the worst customer service I've ever had the misfortune to deal with. That is for another time to go into my hatred of Curry Honda. I get to pick up the Si tomorrow and I'm chomping at the bit to get back into my car. Since it's been in the shop I've had a Nissan Sentra and a Ford Focus ZX4. The Sentra wasn't too bad but the Focus is terrible and when I got it there was less than 500 miles. After driving these cars and the other rentals I've had over the last year have proven that Honda, even with it's flaws, still knows how to design a much better and comfortable car. To me the look and feel of the Japanese and German brands are far superior to the American brands. I guess that's for another blog.