TJVan
Member
Thanks! That's very helpful and good to know!!!Overall it was good enough.
There are a bunch of pretty bad scratches down to the primer, mostly around things like the mirrors and headlights where someone wasnt very careful while installing, the rear bumper has to big rectangle scuff marks on both sides that I cant fix, looks like the bumper of another car was touching it during transport. A bunch of other superficial scratches and nicks in paint and trime that I dont care about because I can clean them up easy enough and am not disillusioned enough to think it will stay pretty forever. You need to be careful though and document EVERYTHING BEFORE YOU LEAVE, even if you think it is nothing. When I got home I washed it and what I thought was a bunch of dust on the hood turned out to actually be a ton of scratches from a polisher. Looks like they tried to fix a big dust mark and used a pretty heavy abrasive to do it with and never finished the job. I told them the next day but was told it is too bad, my problem now. There was also a scratch by the RF mirror that is into the primer that we noticed on delivery but what we didnt see was one about 1" away that was way worse but hidden by the mirror. Mirror installer didnt have very steady hands. We were also told that we are out of luck on the big scratch because we didnt see it at delivery but the little one and the others will be addressed next month some time.
Other than that, all the panel alignment could be better, the paint could be better, but the gaps I can fix myself and the dust specs are not enough to bother me and Joe Public wouldnt probably notice most of it+. I used to be a Honda/Acura mechanic for 16 years though and I could say that other than the odd exception, no Honda would look like that post production and if I let it all slip by on the PDI I would be in the service managers office getting a talking to.
I am still really happy with the car and nothing about the state of it would have been enough to walk away from it over.
I don't think I'll be super picky about everything either, just the big stuff.
I appreciate the detailed reply!
