u/SignorLuigi

Since Honda has removed itself from the gas powered lawn mower business I have noticed that it is becoming harder to find a local dealer who has kept their "Honda Service Certification" (I made that title up. I hope you get the idea.

And since they are no longer certified they say they can't service Honda mowers beyond the basics as they can't get the parts. I don't know if that's true. But that's what they say.

The one or two dealers left in my area don't seem interested at all in doing more technical service (such as repairing the rotostop mechanism in my 3 year old HRX 217). I know that if I was a commercial client, I would get service right away as I know several landscaping company owners and asked what their experience was getting their Honda mowers repaired.

I totally understand why regular old residential users like myself are not as valuable as commercial customers. And I understand why I would have to wait a bit longer to get service compared to commercial customers. But I am being told that they won't be able to service my mower for several months. Their suggestion is I bring the mower in over the winter when they have less commercial business.

I think I am an even less attractive customer because my mower is still under warranty and I am assuming that Honda really lowballs the dealer for warranty service and so they are really not excited to do warranty work.

Is my experience similar to anyone else's? If so, what has been your strategy to get competent service done on your Honda mowers without waiting months to get the work done? Is this parts "excuse" really a thing? Can only certified Honda service businesses do warranty work?

My solution so far is to do as much work on my mowers as possible. And that is fine. But there are times when I need the expertise of a professional mechanic. Sorry for the long winded story. But I hope it helped folks to understand my situation. Again, no shade intended on Honda dealer and service centers in the community. Just looking for a solution to my situation.

I had this experience so thought it was worth posting in order that others don't succumb to the same fate.

A couple years ago, I sent my Apple Watch in to have a new battery installed as its battery capacity had dropped below 80% and I had Apple Care+ which qualified the Watch for a free battery replacement. ("Free Battery Replacement" means the Apple Repair Center exchanges your Watch with a refurbished unit that looks brand new.)

Unknown to me, before Apple will even think about giving you your battery replacement they will update your Apple Watch to the LATEST WatchOS and THEN recheck the battery capacity. I assume that's to see if the capacity jumps back up to 80% or above and they can then deny the free new battery request.

Anyway, Apple service updated my Watch, the battery capacity was still below 80%, so I got my new battery. Great, right? WRONG!

I had a perfectly functioning iPhone with a new battery. But the iPhone was old enough that it did not support the latest version of iOS. When Apple service updated my Apple Watch to the newest version of WatchOS they made my iPhone incompatible with my Apple Watch. You can't pair an iPhone running an older version of iOS with an Apple Watch running a newer corresponding version of WatchOS.

Despite talking to more Apple staff at my local Apple Store than I've had hot dinners in the past two years, they said they could not take my Apple Watch and downgrade it to the previous version of WatchOS nor would the Apple Repair center downgrade its WatchOS to the previous version.

The only solution that would allow me to still be able to use my Apple Watch was to buy a new iPhone, or a used iPhone, running the latest version of iOS.

Maybe someone with better negotiating skills could have got the Apple staff to do more than say, "We're sorry." But again, I thought this was worth posting as we close in on the fall and the release of new versions of all Apple operating systems.

The balloting for 1st base is pretty sketchy, to say the least. So I'll add this...Paul Goldschmidt is not even in the top 10. I understand that the Yanks, essentially, have two first basemen. And unfortunately for Goldschmidt, the other Yankee 1st baseman is Ben Rice. Anyway, I wanted to post this so Goldschmidt could get a little love ❤️, even if it's from Reddit. 😊

This particular HDD is not listed in Tapo's site for hard drives they have actually checked to be compatible with the H500 hub. However, it does meet all the specifications Tapo states for drives that can be used in the H500 and very importantly it is rated for a continuous 24/7 use environment. However, if anyone has used this drive and found it to work well with the H500 that would be a very helpful piece of information. Here is the specific drive.

Seagate SkyHawk 2TB ST2000LV000 6Gb/s SATA 2.5" Laptop Hard Disk Drive Date 2024