Greets everyone,
When I bought my Honda generator just before Christmas one salesman freely
admitted they where price fixing. He wanted to know where I got a price of
$925, over his $999. I would not tell him. :0
It was actually from a small town dealer who is some 30 miles closer to us.
I am glad I did too. We had a problem with it, and I think it was a heavy
fog and a hard freeze that locked the intake valve and the rocker arm broke
when I tried to start it. Somewhere in that manual it says to pull gently.
They fixed it with utmost speed, I was impressed. Unfortunately a winter
storm blew threw and the roads where bad for a week. I did not have it for
Christmas lights, but I rigged up something else. The generator is working
great now. It is nice to have a local dealer who is on the ball.
Everything under warranty.
They really are quiet, but not as the dealers would have you think. The
thing is they are not annoying, I compare it to the purring of a really
really big jungle cat amplified on speakers. Our dealer told us of a
wedding where an organ was hooked up to a EU2000i around the back of a shed.
This was up in the mountains at an old homestead. Nobody noticed the sound
of the generator, just the organ music. Don't you just love sales people!
:)
I know they are overpriced, but demand is high. Does Yamaha have anything
of comparable quality?
The big selling point to me is that the electricity is clean. I can run my
boiler, it has a computer, and all the other stuff around the house that is
computerized. Even refrigerators have computer chips now.
My plans are to buy another one in a couple of years.
JimW