OK, I need to rant. I went down to my dealer yesterday, and I needed a shock linkage bearing for my 400EX. They didn't have it in stock, and I didn't expect them to, so I ordered it. It wont be here until NEXT WEDNESDAY!!![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/img] I'm pissed about this. It takes too long to get parts from honda. If John deere doesn't have a part in stock, they can have it on my front porch at 8:00 the next morning. Anybody got another situation they want to share?

 

get on a website with a microfiche system and order it and have it shipped overnight.You will have it tomorrow.

 

You can have the part at your door the next day, just costs more.

As for Honda, dad got a light bulb for his 300 honda, and the bulb (through honda part #) was $8, the same bulb, using Yamaha part # was only $4!!! EXACT SAME BULB!!!!

 

OE parts prices are weird and schizophrenic. Recently I worked a Honda EB5000 generator with a bad 20A receptacle. Ordered a replacement that was priced at 130$, put it in and only one outlet worked, took it out and compared it to the old one and it was just a little different wired but same brand and quality. Ordered the right one in and to my surprise it was 35$!! They looked exactly the same. I know some parts have gotten cheaper over the years, like choke cables and differential assemblies, in Honda's case. But ALL the mfgrs. have their weirdness in parts. Like Ski-Doo snowmobiles offering rebuildable shocks on their sleds and then either not offering the parts to rebuild them, or making it near impossible to get the right thing. For years I have puzzled over how these inconsistencies can exist, and think I know the answer. They have a big dartboard at the parts warehouse, and when they're not sure about a price, they just whip a dart. LOL

 

Service Honda has Honda OEM Parts at 30% off msrp i believe.Click here late,zubbeyboy

 

You think you have it bad when ordering parts from honda........ Order something from Bombardier and let the
b!tching begin when you hear how long it takes.