Cheers,
I´m stuck between a rock and a hard place and I need your advice please. I had to replace the frame on my wife´s Transalp, costing me about € 3000 at the local Honda dealership. Now, after a few weeks, I have discovered that they have botched the VIN number on the brand-new frame. Two digits have been hammered in "double", meaning that the second hit landed a millimeter or so next to the first hit, so that the digit looks fuzzy and overlaying. Then they have apparently forgot a digit, hammered the correct digit ("E") over the wrong digit ("0"), two of the digits are way out of a straight line, too.
Now I will have to raise hell tomorrow and obviously I´m in deep shit. I would like to understand my options. As we are travellers, I have to expect controls of the frame number at border crossings. Will it be sufficient if the nummer is XXX´d and a clean number is stamped next to it or will I run in trouble sooner or later? Will it make a difference if I can get an entry in the vehicle documentation that the frame number was XXXX´d and replaced or will this be worth nothing out there in the wild? Obviously a new frame would be the right way to go but I don´t believe the shop will do this without being forced to by a court, which will cost me dearly probably.

I´m just so frigging frustrated.

Thanks so much
Chris

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