My father gave me a Coleman that had a sticker reading "Powered by
Honda" on the side. I took it to be overhauled and the shop told me
there is not a single Honda part in it. The engine is Briggs and
Stratton!

He bought it new and never used it very much so I know it was never
modified.

--

Roger Long



"Skip Gundlach" wrote in message
oups.com...
This thread's reappearance, and Larry's story about his genset in
his
workvan reminds me that we're about to buy a 2000W honda as our
backup
and shoreside work genset.

However, it appears that Kipor either OEMs the Honda EU gensets, or
someone else does for both of them, as I can see literally no
difference between them other than color - shape, buttons, outlets,
specs, you name it.

As Kipor makes a line of gensets that would do Northern Tool or
Harbor
Freight proud, I am guessing that they're the maker.

So, has anyone had any experience with them? The bigger question,
really, is what about warranty? I'm assuming it would be easier to
get
a Honda warranty exercised in the wild, but if it's like buying an
extended warranty on a major appliance (not worth it, cuz they never
break, statistically), perhaps it's of no moment.

So, the second question; among the Honda 1000 or 2000 owners, who's
had
a warranty claim?

Thanks.

L8R

Skip, with limber holes resolved and on to windlass installation and
plumbing heads

Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig KI4MPC
http://tinyurl.com/384p2 The vessel as Tehamana, as we bought her

"Believe me, my young friend, there is *nothing*-absolutely
nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing,
messing-about-in-boats; messing about in boats-or *with* boats.
In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to
matter,
that's the charm of it.
Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at
your
destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you
never
get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything
in
particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to
do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not."

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:38:41 GMT, "Roger Long"
wrote:

My father gave me a Coleman that had a sticker reading "Powered by
Honda" on the side. I took it to be overhauled and the shop told me
there is not a single Honda part in it. The engine is Briggs and
Stratton!

Coleman has always used Briggs & Stratton as far as I know, which of
course has led to their reputation for being noisy and unreliable.

Sounds like the sticker took a walk on the wild side somewhere prior
to purchase.

:-)

It actually isn't a sticker but silk screened right onto the metal of
the panel. Kind of amazing we never heard about a lawsuit of some
sort.

Years ago, I was part of a deal that went down the tubes because a
Japanese company refused to sue someone. I was told that they have a
cultural issue with suing and almost never do so. Maybe this proves
it.

--

Roger Long



"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:38:41 GMT, "Roger Long"
wrote:

My father gave me a Coleman that had a sticker reading "Powered by
Honda" on the side. I took it to be overhauled and the shop told me
there is not a single Honda part in it. The engine is Briggs and
Stratton!

Coleman has always used Briggs & Stratton as far as I know, which of
course has led to their reputation for being noisy and unreliable.

Sounds like the sticker took a walk on the wild side somewhere prior
to purchase.

:-)