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Yep. The PCX needed a tow today. My key would not turn the ignition, so matter what I tried. It had been raining off and on quite a bit here in Florida the last few days. Thankfully, I was in the office when it began to rain again, and not out on the road.

AAA basically said I would need to spend more on my membership for towing for motorbikes. If I upgrade now it could take 3 days to complete the process. I'm essentially broke till next payday so adding more expense wouldn't help. I vaguely remembered seeing something about roadside assistance in my HondaCare papers. I called them. They said my tow was covered to nearest appropriate Honda dealer within 100 miles. You can call once in a 7 day period, up to 4 times per year. I will say I was pleased with that surpise benefit from the Honda warranty.

jasontheparamedic wrote:I vaguely remembered seeing something about roadside assistance in my HondaCare papers. I called them. They said my tow was covered to nearest appropriate Honda dealer within 100 miles. You can call once in a 7 day period, up to 4 times per year. I will say I was pleased with that surpise benefit from the Honda warranty.

Cool, now I feel better about my dealer coaxing me into buying Honda Protection

I wish there was a little red button that would bypass all the PCX switches that prevents ignition, such as side stand switch and combo brake switch for when those switches fail. Or I need to learn how to hot wire it! I can hot wire my boat diesel by putting a screw driver across the starter solenoid which got me out of trouble once.

In the UK you get 2 years free breakdown cover from Honda UK. I thought you might get this in the US as well?

We only get a year in the USA. We can pay $500+ for 3 years of "extended coverage" though.

Jason, did they find what was wrong?

was it definitely your PCX
My mate at work once spent a good 5 minutes trying to unlock his clio before he realised it was an identical one to his parked in the next space over.

Well, I finally made it to the dealer in the middle of my workday. It took several tries but they were able to get the key to turn...barely. They are going to relace a part in the ignition area anyways since it still "sticks" way too much. Which one?...I don't know yet until tomorrow. And it's going to be under warranty. Yay to that!

was it definitely your PCX
My mate at work once spent a good 5 minutes trying to unlock his clio before he realised it was an identical one to his parked in the next space over.

Yep, definitely mine. There aren't too many PCX's around here in Tampa area. There's only one dealer that regularly stocks them. Sadly, many people have gone the way of Chinese scooters in these parts.

And my Honda Care 3 year extension was around $370.

Odd, sounds like they might have to replace the whole ignition assembly. That's the first I've heard of the ignition failing.

I just got my bike back today. The ignition assembly is on major backorder, just like all the other Honda PCX parts it seems. Heck, my belt I ordered just arrived to me after 2 months! So the good folks at the powersports dealership were able to lube the ignition switch good enough as a temporary means to get me through whatever time it takes for the new ignition assembly to arrive. In the meantime, I will have to be very careful with how I turn the key to avoid it making things worse. They will call me when the new part arrives so I can get this bike fixed correctly.

I think your dealer is full of crap. My dealer replaced my whole engine block to fix my centerstand (under warranty), and we only had to wait 2 weeks on parts. There's no way it took the belt 2 months to get in.

I ordered the belt myself from the powersportsplus.com website I mentioned awhile back. I have no idea when the dealer is getting the parts from their source. The parts still haven't arrived yet. At least whatever lubing they did to my ignition switch in the meantime has worked, since they key has been turning easily.

that's what I thought when i got my PCX back from service,I eventually got the ignition to turn,happens from time to time,rather annoying

Woolley wrote:was it definitely your PCX
My mate at work once spent a good 5 minutes trying to unlock his clio before he realised it was an identical one to his parked in the next space over.