HONDA IMA BATTERY?

[mdishong]

HAVE YOU EVER SOLD AN IMA BATTERY OVER-THE-COUNTER TO AN IRF? CAN IT BE DONE?
CALLED REMAN CENTER & THEY SAID YES; HOWEVER, THEY CAN'T ORDER IT. I CALLED MY PARTS CENTER & THEY WEREN'T SURE.
RECOMMENDED I CALL MY REP (WHO IS ON VACTION THIS WEEK). I FIGURED I'D TRY HERE 1ST.

[dbuck]

I tried getting the ok from my rep about a year ago but he wouldn't commit to saying it was okay to do. I have the feeling its a liability issue in case the independents fry themselves putting it in. Some other dealers I know just order one for shops using someone's DPTS, but now the local aftermarket guys have a battery pack they can sell and it goes for about half the $ of the Honda ones so we haven't even had someone ask for a IMA from a shop in over half a year.
Most of the time when I refused to sell a battery to a shop I ended up with their customer anyway, and if you do sell to a shop you have to watch your sell prices.

[Parts007]

Not Honda here, but can you sell something like that to someone who is not certified to install?

[mdishong]

FINAL REPLY FROM HONDA REP: "I finally got the official word and the answer is no, the dealer would have to perform the replacement and process the core."