Plastic Honda decks better than any Aluminum Decks out there?

[robert@honda]

Originally Posted by Eric Vest

I just talked with my brother during a family gathering this weekend. He said he presented his purchase receipt when his mower deck cracked around the wheel attachments to a Honda Power Equipment dealer and they would not honor the warranty. He purchased his mower in 1997. The dealer said the mower was too old. This was several years ago.

The lifetime warranty on the NeXite (Xenoy) mower decks did not start until November 2006. Only mowers purchased AFTER November 2006 are eligible for the lifetime deck warranty.

Before then, the warranty for the mower deck was 60 months. So, a mower bought on 12/31/1997 would have a warranty through 12/31/2002.

-Robert@Honda

Caveat: I work for Honda, but the preceding was my opinion alone.

[weeze]

yeah no worries about the deck. if it was gonna crack and such they wouldn't offer a lifetime warranty on it. i think the only way to crack it would be to drop it off the top of the empire state building. they even show in the video where they hit it with a sledgehammer and drive an suv over the nexite deck and it doesn't damage it at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSqOY...ure=plpp_video

[Nutsedge]

Originally Posted by JasonsLawnCare1

yeah no worries about the deck. if it was gonna crack and such they wouldn't offer a lifetime warranty on it. i think the only way to crack it would be to drop it off the top of the empire state building. they even show in the video where they hit it with a sledgehammer and drive an suv over the nexite deck and it doesn't damage it at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSqOY...ure=plpp_video

I like this one much better... very calming!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiORC...eature=related

[Eric Vest]

Originally Posted by Nutsedge

A post on another forum with only one person saying they had problems and another guy saying "I am see a lot of Honda HRB 215,216 comming in the shop with cracks in the Bodies." That was their ONLY post, the original one for the thread...

There were actually more people in that thread saying they had great luck with their Xenoy/Nexite decks.

2 out of 8 postings on this thread were positive on the Honda plastic decks. These owners had mowers that were 5 and 7 years old. The first post was a lawn mower repair shop shop employee who stated he saw "a lot of Honda HRB 215,216 comming in the shop with cracks" and an owner who stated his mower had more than one crack. The other posts were either neutral or negative.

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/...6046882.html?6