If Honda and the Service dealer can reject your claims, that means that have enough proof that you didn't follow the required service intervals to be performed at the service centers. The terms and conditions have been clearly stated on the warranty and service booklet.

It's your mistake that you failed to send the car back for routine maintenance. So you have the bear the consequences now.

If you send it to outside workshops, it would only cost you a fraction of what it would cost you to get your gearbox replaced at the service centre.

This post has been edited by TOMEI-R: Jul 15 2020, 06:01 PM

The car is out of manufacturer warranty coverage already anyway. Even if anything happens now, Honda will not be responsible.

That's the whole root of the problem. "Letting third party workshops service your car". I have been in this line for so long and I have seen so many errors made by so called "foremans" or "mechanics". For example, putting in ATF into CVT gearboxes. Another one would be, there are some special techniques and procedures to replace CVT fluid compared to normal ATF. Yet many mechanics fail to observe this. I have come across mechanics who would tell me that they measure how much fluids come out and then how much should be going in. I can only laugh at such statements.

So yeah, even if you want to send your car to third party workshops, make sure you know the mechanics there really know their stuff. When in doubt, always request to use back the original engine oil and transmission oil and parts. You could never go wrong with that.

This post has been edited by TOMEI-R: Jul 15 2020, 06:28 PM

Really...? Though there is truth is what you are trying to say, but try applying it in this part of the world.

This post has been edited by TOMEI-R: Jul 15 2020, 06:36 PM