3 years and 1 month ago, my brother and his wife purchased a brand new Honda Odyssey EX-L Res. It now has 85 000kms, and last week snapped a rear spring.
It's out of warranty by about 25000kms, and 1 month, so the dealer won't warranty it. Okay, fair enough. What's worse, is the dealer (in Saint John, NB), is saying the spring is backordered, with no ETA (although they guess 3-4 months!!!). The van is dead in the water in the meantime, and my brother and his wife only have their 12 year old Civic now between them, both with jobs, and kids soon needing to be schlepped to various summer day camps.
He has checked RockAuto, and all the other new part stores - none in stock. He even called a Honda Dealer in Maine, and same story. The next step will be to call all the wrecking yards in the Maritimes, as well as Winnipeg (I could pick up a spring and mail it to him within a week).
Does anyone have any other possible avenues for sourcing a spring for this van?
I'm also wondering if Honda has problems with these springs and premature failure. It doesn't make sense that they don't have any supply of springs on so recent a van unless they're selling all their stock to replace failing parts.