by DanSki » Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:25 pm
[quote="Bruce Fielding"]
Oh, and what Steve says. Taking it to a local garage is historically VERY dangerous.
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What's the problem there?
Sorry if strange questions, but as a soon to be new owner, would be good to know.
Thanks
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There's been a number of cases where people have had their car serviced by a local mechanic/Honda dealer and as Hamish has said, someone has taken the car on the "test drive" to make sure everything is fine & the car's come back from the test drive anything but fine. This hasn't been down to shoddy workmanship, instead more down to people driving very powerful cars and not necessarily being used to them/a good enough driver to do so.
A quick spurt of the throttle + inexperienced driver = damaged car
There was even been a case where the car was wrapped around a tree, completely written off and the passenger (mechanic's nephew from memory) was very unfortunately killed in the accident.
I guess the temptation to drive such a different, powerful and rare car can be a little too strong for some people.
Having said the above, if you have a good relationship with a local garage and enough confidence with the owner, then you should be able to mitigate this risk if taking it to the factory is too far to drive/too much cost to trailer.
[quote="Bruce Fielding"]
Oh, and what Steve says. Taking it to a local garage is historically VERY dangerous.
[/quote]
What's the problem there?
Sorry if strange questions, but as a soon to be new owner, would be good to know.
Thanks
[/quote]
There's been a number of cases where people have had their car serviced by a local mechanic/Honda dealer and as Hamish has said, someone has taken the car on the "test drive" to make sure everything is fine & the car's come back from the test drive anything but fine. This hasn't been down to shoddy workmanship, instead more down to people driving very powerful cars and not necessarily being used to them/a good enough driver to do so.
A quick spurt of the throttle + inexperienced driver = damaged car
There was even been a case where the car was wrapped around a tree, completely written off and the passenger (mechanic's nephew from memory) was very unfortunately killed in the accident.
I guess the temptation to drive such a different, powerful and rare car can be a little too strong for some people.
Having said the above, if you have a good relationship with a local garage and enough confidence with the owner, then you should be able to mitigate this risk if taking it to the factory is too far to drive/too much cost to trailer.