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Originally Posted by Dave-ROR
Huh? I'm a HUGE Type-R fan in general and have been involved with them since 1997. I've tracked and raced several, including tracking CTRs (with the heater on full blast of course). I still own one of the more hated Type-R's around.
I am one of the people involved in the Type-R Club of America. So I am squarely in the demo for the CTR. If I wanted one I could have bought one in 2017 for MSRP. In hindsight I should have just to use a car for a year and sell it used for basically MSRP - it would have been a solid financial move. However my Focus RS at the time was a better car in my opinion so I didn't buy the CTR. I was willing to put up with it's fugly looks if it delivered on the driving experience I wanted. It didn't, so I didn't.
Mostly off topic but Honda also mostly lost me as a customer because they treated a good friend with a 17 CTR like shit and blocked all warranty coverage on the powertrain.. on a STOCK CAR. Because they said the car was modified because their mechanics dirty handprints where on the ECU.. they claimed it was tuned. Normally I'd believe Honda but in this case I knew 100% that the car was stock. Eventually Honda took the car, replaced the ECU at the owners cost, drive the car for a day.. and had it fail the exact same way it was doing before. They finally listened to the owner that it was obviously the wiring harness fault. To this day that car throws a flag when any dealer scans it that they have to contact Honda before performing warranty work.. again on a STOCK CAR.
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Okay then? So the car didn't drive how you wanted it to, that's fair, but it's clear to me still that Honda knows who they are selling to better than you do, regardless of who
you are.
About your "mostly off topic", I don't really see this as a problem with Honda, something like this could happen anywhere. I think this is more a problem with the middle man between Honda and the customer, which you have explained. Why is Honda going to trust just about anyone and replace things when there is possibly evidence of tampering true or not.