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There is a catch. A coworker had the battery on his wife's Honda Insight go bad. No worries - it was only 18 months old, so get it replaced under warranty. Afte
by chiph 10y ago
There is a catch. A coworker had the battery on his wife's Honda Insight go bad. No worries - it was only 18 months old, so get it replaced under warranty. Afterwards, they were informed that the new battery would be covered under Honda's replacement part warranty - 12 months. And not the remainder of the 8 year/80,000 mile original equipment warranty.
- mikeash 10y agoThat can't be legal.
- xexers 10y agoIt likely is legal. The BestBuy extended warranties work the same way. If BestBuy ultimately needs to replace your product, then your extended warranty is finished.
- mikeash 10y agoExtended warranties are totally different from original warranties.
- URSpider94 10y agoWarranties on cars are much more highly regulated than service plans on consumer electronics.
- eganist 10y agohttp://www.insightcentral.net/KB/faq-purchasing.html http://www.insightcentral.net/KB/faq-purchasing.html Seems like this source disagrees. They may wish to get their money back.
- chiph 10y agoThey don't mention the warranty on the replacement battery, which is what my friend discovered isn't so great.
- madez 10y agoThanks for this information. I didn't think about checking replacement parts warrenty rules, silently assuming they were the same. That they are not smells fishy.
- chiph 10y agoIf you're shopping for a hybrid or EV, talk to the service manager and ask what the policy is. It's possible Honda may have changed it since then.
- gambiting 10y agoSucks, but it depends where you live. In Poland the law specifically says that if a replacement is provided under warranty then the replacement has to be covered for the same amount of time as a brand new component would be covered for(so in this case if the battery is replaced at any point under warranty the replacement has to have 8 years of warranty by law)
- jsight 10y agoI suspect that they were wrong. Unless this is a state by state thing or something, a warranty replacement cannot shorten the length of the existing warranty. The replacement part warranty should only apply to any time after the expiration of the original warranty.
- protomyth 10y agoWas it a manufacturer warranty or one of the after-market ones that some dealerships sell?