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Ericka Lacey (@lackelly6) says a Tallahassee, Florida, Honda dealership burned her. “These are some scammers,” she warns in one clip, telling followers, “Do not come buy no car from here.” She claims the dealership “stole $2,600” from her.
But her longer follow-up tells a messier story—one where she bounced between shops for months, paid for diagnostics and parts along the way, and, by her own account, still hasn't gotten her car fixed.
How Did the Trouble Start?
In another follow-up, she described the situation. It started with a battery.
“This is my first time changing my battery on my car,” Lacey says of her 2021 Honda Accord, which she says she bought new. Before the swap, she could “jump my car off just fine.” Right after, “That's when all those codes and stuff started popping up on my dashboard.”
She says she didn't head straight to the dealer. First, she went back to AutoZone, where the battery came from. The warning would “eventually go away,” she says they told her. It didn't. She says she swapped in a new battery at Advance Auto Parts. She reports that the lights cleared, then returned “about two days later.”
Only then, after Advance ran a diagnostic, did she finally take it to Honda, she says. This is because she says she was told, “Sometimes you have to get the computer to reset it.”
Coding Out
Honda's expensive diagnostic, she says, pointed to an ignition coil—No. 3, per her captions. She says Pep Boys replaced it “with no problem,” and the car “rode fine probably, like, two weeks” before “those codes started coming right on back up.”
She says that the coil that went in, though, was an aftermarket unit—a cheaper substitute for the factory Honda part.
So, she says she paid yet another mechanic for yet another diagnostic—same reading.
“Would you like me to change it, or you wanna take it by the Pep Boys?” she reports him asking.
“I'mma just let you change [it],” she says she told him—authorizing one more swap of the very same part and paying again. The car, by her telling, still isn't right.
She posted a follow-up showing a coil put in her Honda, but there's not much to it.
The problem, though, is that there is no indication of what actually occurred at Honda, what she was told, or what she paid for.
Let's see what the people had to say.
‘My Experiences With Them Were Always Horrible'
For the most part, the comments section was people calling her out for her mistakes, not the dealership.
“That's where you messed up at. Bringing it to AutoZone instead of the dealer … stop going the cheap route,” one person wrote.
“Wait girl… so you didn't buy it from Proctor.. went to two other parts store… lights came on after that… had no choice but to go to your local Honda… but it's Proctor Honda fault?” another person wrote.
However, some said they had poor experiences with the dealership.
“She is correct they got me for 3500,” one commenter claimed.
“Yesss my experiences with them were always horrible ! i would go to flowers !” another said, suggesting an alternative dealership for Lacey to go to.
A Cheaper Coil, the Same Codes
Reaching for the cheapest coil can be a false economy.
Firestone Complete Auto Care‘s own maintenance guidance is to fit “high-quality OEM replacement parts for coils and spark plugs.” This means factory-grade pieces, not the bargain substitutes prone to failing early and dragging a misfire right back.
And swapping any part before the real cause is confirmed can leave a driver paying without progress. As a CarParts.com repair guide reviewed by ASE Certified Master Technician Richard McCuistian puts it, “Resetting the engine light removes the warning, but that doesn't mean the issue is resolved.”
Subplot News reached out to Ericka Lacey (@lackelly6) via TikTok message and comment, and to Proctor Honda via email for more information. We will update this story if they respond.
@lackelly6 Stole $2600 dollars from me claimed to have fixed my car and didn't after 2 days my car was back Having the same issues took it back to them and the gave me 2 different diagnosis after claiming it was just fixed @proctorhonda located in Tallahassee Fl
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