On the Road Again

Photo by Sean Camp

Our trusty steed, the 2018 Honda CRV pictured here, is back on the road. As noted in an earlier post we had a catastrophic failure of the Body Control Module (a central computer system) which made the car an expensive boat anchor. We were advised that the part to repair the issue was on back order with no ETA on when it might be available! However, today I was pleasantly suprised with a phone call from Steve (at the service desk) at our local Honda dealership. I was expecting more bad news when instead he told me the car was fixed and ready to go!

Kate and I drove into Stratford that afternoon to pick up the car and return the rental Honda Canada had approved just a week ago (from Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Stratford). We are so pleased to be back on the road. Especially pleased that our local dealer didn't ding us for the part even though Honda Canada did not cover it under warranty.

The car had been sitting waiting for parts since January 18 — basically a month off the road. But it might have been much worse. I've been in communication with a lady in Goderich who had a similar problem with her CRV and she was off the road for 5 and 1/2 months! In any case, many thanks to Steve and our local Honda dealer. My faith in Honda has been restored.

This down time did have some consequences. When we came down with COVID at the first of January we thought that, what the heck, we might as well go to Texas for a winter break when we're better. We were getting back to normal, had pretty much figured things out and had lined up a place to rent when the car failed on us. That meant we couldn't go to Austin — we bought this car so we could travel with our 3 cats. On the other hand, it would have been no fun at all if this failure had happened while on the road to Texas. And finally, fortunately, we weren't in Austin for their freakish ice storm which disabled power for days on end!