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Originally Posted by benhogan
My wife's 2007 Civic needed a new key. The poorly designed key came apart. Apparently, a new key has to be "programmed".
I swear, the Honda company of today is a lot different from the Honda of yesteryear.
I think I read somewhere that a lot of the really good Japanese engineers are working for the Koreans now. I don't know if that is true or not but I think the wife's next car is will be Korean.
This is our last Honda.
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Don't feel so bad. MY 124C ignition broke this summer. Wouldn't turn and wheel was locked. $921 to replace. Replacement required instrument cluster and trim removal to grind off the linkage to the ignition, then repair and replacement.
When my service mgr told me it was a 5 hr job, I figured it would be about a grand. He didn't disappoint.
What was disappoionting was that after getting a new ignition made -twice- from the VIN, they came to the conclusion that the entire locking system had been rekeyed somewhere over it's 23 year life. Had to send my spare key out the third time to have the ingition keyed to the match the rest of the locks to avoid needing two keys in the future.
(no extra charge
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