Will this be the final credit card charge for the Honda Odyssey?
Posted By RichC on September 24, 2025
Hopefully you didn’t read yesterday’s stressful day of dealing with the ongoing “repairs” for our 2002 Honda Odyssey? I now know why some people prefer to take their used cars into the dealership and trade them away for a new car. BUT .. another few hundred dollars later and I think the tire/strut/alignment problems are solved … 
at least I’m crossing my fingers.
Since the tires on the van were relatively new (at least in my eyes), I complained a little bit to the Firestone repair shop. They were polite and sympathetic, but that didn’t really get me anywhere — 10K on tires is still wear in their eyes. So much for 65K mileage warranties — they’re just numbers.
I ended up purchase two “more” tires for the front, took the good one off and have it mounted as a full size “perfectly good” spare tire, IF I should ever need it. The two tires for $200 that Firestone was suppose to have in their facility from yesterday’s request, didn’t arrive, but of course nobody knew that until they already had the car on the rack (and I was gone). My option was to wait another day or go with two “better” (cough, cough) tires and get it done today for $300. Of course with the new tires on they could easily talk me into an alignment after pointing out it was off by quite a bit, but who knows? So add another $115 to the charge after a 15% discount. Cha-ching.
All in all, this is the price of driving and stretching out the life of an older car … even a low mileage Honda.
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