Outdoor Power Equipment (Lawn Mowers, Snow Blowers, Chain Saws and more) Discussions

My serial number is too high so my Honda blower is not affected but has anyone taken their Honda blower for the recall repair?  On a side note, My 2005 Honda Odyssey had a brake failure recall and took me two tries to get it right this week.  I hope you guys have much better recall repair experience.  Are there any other recalls on Honda blower?

Chxbeachva wrote:

The joystick is plastic and it will not rust, it's very quick to adjust the chute into any position you want. Try using it in the real world and it won't feel so cheap unless you try to break it.

FrankMA wrote:
That's really too bad.  I know you've been chomping to bits to get some action out of that new to you snowblower.  Good thing is that all expenses are covered. 

Well, the weather folks are calling for snow on Friday (as of this morning) so I think I'll hold off on the repair until my dealer's schedule loosens up a bit. I just can't afford to be without a 2 stage machine at this time of the year. I'll ask him to call me if he has any holes in his schedule to fill that will minimize the amount of time it's out of my hands.

MN_Runner wrote:
My serial number begins 1189 etc.  and I bought it new from the HONDA dealer HS 928TAS model.  The holes in the side of the auger housing are NOT to be used for the HD Skid Shoes, it explains that in the instructions that come with them.  The stock machine came from Honda with skid shoes mounted on the back of the housing.  I imagine the two holes, and spot welded nuts where one would normally mount skid shoes were something that didn't work out too well, hence the changes I have and the unused holes for side mount skid shoes.  Honda just left them there no explanation other than Don't use them to mount the Commercial Skid Shoes accessory.

New_Yorker wrote:

You don't need side shoes on tracked models. There is no way to adjust the bucket into the various modes if you had side shoes. The side shoes are for wheeled models.

People can do whatever they want to do with their snowblowers but US version of TA/TAS should not be getting the side skids and it may affect the leveling of the bucket.  My WA/WAS has no level adjustment so the side skids (commercial grade) came mounted with the blower.  Just look at your 2010 Owner's manual.

all this talk about side skids,

here is the PDF for Honda snowblowers sold in Canada. They are Track versions, and all had side skids,

In fact, the HS928TCD has both side and rear skids, and the wheeled version, HS928WC is shown without side skids?? Interesting, might be a preference thing maybe.

http://english.honda.ca/HPower/_Global/Files/Accessories/SnowBlowers_En.pdf

Now the Yamaha I am waiting for the Dealer to bring in, only has Rear Skids:

Rubinew,

In poking around the Canadian/Honda snowblower site, the primary difference between the US & Canadian lines on the large 2-stage blowers is an automatic height adjustment (instead of the foot pedal on the U.S. model), that Honda calls "Gas-Assisted, Auger-Height-Adjustment System".

And of course, they have the hybrid blower, which Honda Canada hopefully says "Be the envy of your neighbours with hybrid efficiency". Funny.

Anyway, the lineup outside of the Hybrid looks fairly similar.

But if you go to the Japanese Honda site, http://www.honda.co.jp/snow/, they have some pretty spectacular snowblowers there (Hint, if you use Google Chrome, it can autotranslate the site).

The equivalent of the 1132/928 is here: http://www.honda.co.jp/snow/products/hs970_1170.html. There are many fascinating things on this page. For example, they have:

"Honda relief plus compensation system security Compensated for one year from purchase stolen. When stolen, the same model to compensate."

And as a way to stop you from using it to blow leaves ;):

"● any purpose other than snow removal, please do not use."

Finally, they have a page: http://www.honda.co.jp/snow/newtechnology/index.html#linkicon7_2

which lists the technology they're proud of. Again if you translate to english, its a fascinating read.

rubinew wrote:

That Yamaha looks awesome.  I wish they made a wheeled model.  I'd probably capitulate and buy one.

Without a doubt,  that has to be the best consumer grade snow blower on the market.   I'm look forward to your review.