Over the past few weeks I've been getting recorded phone calls that says this: "Hello your warranty is about to expire on your vehicle and it should be renewed. Please hold on the line to renew your warranty."

Now I think this is some scam because I have a 10 year warranty on my car and the recording never says its from Honda or my dealer, but I just wanted to make sure and see if someone has gotten these calls.

2004 EX-V6

 

I'm sure it is from some 3rd party warranty company that is trying to rip you off. Here's what happens: They tell you their warranty covers everything. Then something happens and you report it to them. they find some reason to deny your claim because you "neglected" your vehicle or something they just simply made up out of thin air. Either that happens or the warranty company goes out of business. Either way you might as well be flushing money down the toilet.
Next time you should hold on the line and ask them who they are. If they are not Honda, tell them to stop calling you.

 

Thanks man, I've actually held on twice but both times the line got cut so I might just call Honda and ask them about expired warranties or something if I get the call again.

 

Usually a lot of these companies will watch for vehicle registrations, then they see that you have an 04 and your warranty is either expired or about to so they randomly call or write you to try and get you to buy their product. It's just a "well timed" solicitation via phone. It's the equivelent of phone spam....

 

That's what I would do. You might as well put your phone number on the national "Do Not Call" registryto keep phone spam away: https://www.donotcall.gov/

 

does that really work, or do you end up getting more junk from it?

 

It works, we have been on there for years and it only takes a minute to do it. Same with the cell phones.

 

It works. It was set up by the government i think. Although conspiracy theorists out there will probably try to say it is the government's way of tracking everybody (hey....maybe it is!)
Yeah I've been getting junk calls on my work cell phone. Obviously some d-bag put my number onsome kind of mailing/calling listbecause it is always sales people asking for the same guy (not me.) When I tell them it is not his phone, they try to peddle their garbage to me. So I signed mine up on the do not call lista while back. I ent a long time without receiving any calls, butI got a spam call the other day. I guess next time I need to stay on the line until I can tell who it is so I can report them to the do not call registry (you are supposed to report companies that keep calling you.)

 

Yes it works. If you get some phone spam after you're registered, there's a way to report the caller to the FCC or something like that. We've been on that for a couple years now.

Couple years after I buy a car, I keep getting postcards in the mail for thewarranty. It's just a sales pitch for an extended warranty.

 

Yeah I bought my LX in December of '06 and every now and then I still get one of those dumb postcards. I wonder how much money those warranty companies waste on postage for me to take their postcard and throw it straight into the trash outsideand not even bring it into the house. The same crap goes for home warranties too.I still get letters for that.