Disorganized Company, Wish I Never Leased From Them
There have been over 40 phone calls with Honda, explaining the situation with rep after rep, only to hear 'that's above me and someone will reach out to you'. No one reaches out. When the month-to-month lease was renewed back in December 2022, your Honda Finance representative explicitly stated that once I no longer wanted the car anymore, all I needed to do was drop it off at any Southern California dealership. That very question was clearly asked and answered.
The Signal Hill dealership refused to fix the car's condenser after the problem was diagnosed in Downey, arguing that Signal Hill would charge me for its own diagnosis. I decided to return the car there, at Honda Signal Hill, per the only information ever provided to me via Honda Finance. The owner said he would not accept the car and would thus file it as abandoned if I do not pick it up.
I placed several calls to Honda Finance to ask why he was refusing to accept the car. Your representatives were telling me instructions as to what to tell the owner so he would take it. My response to your reps was, "YOU tell him!" Their response was basically 'that's above me and someone will reach out'. No one reached out. I finally got someone to at least try to assist. From there, your Finance Department wrote a letter to Honda Signal Hill, asking the owner to accept the vehicle. The owner again said no. I told the owner he is unfriendly and incompetent...but I was only half way right. While he indeed is unfriendly, the title of incompetence goes to Honda Finance.
It took 13 phone calls before any Honda Finance representative said, for the first time ever, that the Signal Hill location was not a location which accepts corporate cars. This would explain why the Signal Hill owner was so baffled when Honda Finance wrote the letter asking him to take it. Honda Finance didn't even know its own protocol. It turned out that it is Honda Cerritos which takes corporate returns, a dealership which is only a 15-minute drive away. I would have happily returned it there on 17 June if Honda had instructed me to, as it is even closer to my home. It makes absolutely no difference to me as long as I am informed properly. It took 1.5 months to even figure out what the problem was.
Back in August, I sat down with the Signal Hill General Manager John Pill. He flat out told Honda Finance you guys are doing this all wrong and that you have been giving me the "runaround" for quite some time. From this very lengthy call, this was the first time EVER that a third party called "True 360" was mentioned in any conversation. It turns out that True 360 would need to come to a location of my choosing for an inspection. 3 months after dropping off the car at a dealership Honda Finance approved, I was finally told, for the first time ever, that all we needed to do was have True 360 come to Honda Signal Hill. Keep in mind John Pill also called Honda Finance several times, asking for instructions. He got the same confusion I got. True 360 went to Signal Hill Honda in September I believe.
So you think once True 360 finished, you guys would relocate the car and we are all done. Right? No. The car sat in the Signal Hill lot for months before the dealership arranged for it to be towed over to Cerritos (I do not know which dealership paid for it). Once it got to Cerritos, I was told I was months overdue, with an outstanding bill. Pretty much, Honda is by far the worst company I have ever dealt with in my life. read more