Vibration Continued
So in my continuing quest for an answer to the 20-24 mph vibration, I went back for a second check with the local dealer. They had heard back from Honda, Torrence where the results of the computer test on my first visit about this problem was measured and found. It was shown at the dealer to be a change in the engine RPM, but it didn't show any disturbance in the drive train. But the technician could feel it as I did, and the engine RPM did show a flutter during that exact miles per hour range.
So, Honda in Torrence, CA looked at the data, but could not conclude anything from it. So it came back to the dealer who repeated what Torrence said. The dealer suggested I come back for a second look. This time I just left the car with the dealer and they took it out during a rather busy day at the dealership. They said they drove it and couldn't detect any problem, but they didn't connect the computer this time, but just drove it supposedly. I asked if they drove on a smooth road because it's semi-subtle and a rougher road masks the vibration. They didn't know if that was the case. I asked if they would like to go out with me and have it demonstrated, but they said they didn't think it would be a good idea. In the next few minutes the discussion was obviously geared to convince me that the vibration issue was to be dropped by the dealer. When I reviewed the first analysis showed both the vibration, the graph displaying an engine rpm disturbance, and their own tech feeling it on the road, they said they couldn't repeat the process and the service manage just stood staring at me with, well, it's my turn to agree it's not a problem. I asked them for a copy of all the work orders and their notes, and walked out. I'm not happy. I had told them that the car's transmission and engine is so smooth that a little vibration when detected is more obvious than perhaps it might be in a truck, but that I was concerned more with what happens if the vibration means a bigger issue later on after the warranty is exceeded. Also, it seems that Honda would like to be more curious about an anomaly that truly shouldn't be there, or that there is a good reason it is there. But to ignore it by essentially telling me to go away seems un-Honda-like.
Got a call a few days later from Honda Torrence, but that discussion was more like the last one at the dealership only worse in the sense that the actual details of the computer display and the tech's experience on the drive were not visible to this person. He was nice, wanted to make me happy, but in the end said that it wasn't important enough to do anything with. I said I'd like to have Honda declare that if it is a problem that evolves into something worse at a time when the warranty is expired that I'd like to know they would cover it, but he couldn't do that.
At this point not sure what to do. I do like the car--had told them that many times--and that I wasn't asking for them to take the car apart to fix what is now a relatively minor disturbance despite its unknown future implications, but from what I've learned at this Forum, other dealers did indeed make some adjustments that seem to have worked (BTW the dealer wasn't even interested in looking at the discussion on this Forum, declaring that most forums are just a bunch of people who are whiners and overly critical. I countered that this forum wasn't like that at all, and that frankly most of the comments are just the opposite, and the members by a large majority love the car, but it didn't faze them).