6.3

fairly significant
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
11,748 miles

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2018 Honda Pilot Owner Comments

problem #4

Jul 282019

Pilot

  • 13,643 miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

Lane keep assist will trigger multiple times on two lane roads. It will activate with the "brake" message in the cluster. The system is totally unusable and unsafe. It has been into the dealership multiple times with a no problem found answer. During a one and a half or two hour drive the system will trigger fifteen times or more. Average speed is about 50 to 55 miles per hour. It happens on straight or curved roadways. Clear weather and in the sun or shade.

- Martinez, GA, USA

problem #3

Jul 042019

Pilot

  • 13,350 miles
Since the transmission was replaced at 12,181 miles in June 2019 on a 2018 Honda Pilot elite, other issues have popped up. The forward collision system has gone off twice on a 2 lane state highway. In both cases, I was on a 2 lane highway going about 50 miles an hour with no cars in front of me for at least a mile or two, no vehicles coming the other way, on a straight part of the road, nothing in the road and nothing on the side of the road. The dealer said that it didn't happen to them when driving the car, so there's nothing to fix & Honda corporation said the dealer couldn't find anything to fix. One night when driving on the interstate it it stopped raining but was very muggy and there was moisture on the windshield the automatic wipers did not come on and the defrost did not work - this was over the course of several hours of driving trying different temperatures on defrost and nothing helped. Even with the wipers on manually, visibility was poor. Also, one day after the car had been sitting all day I drove it 20 miles and the car did not cool down - I had to run the air conditioner on full blast the whole time. The car is not cooling like it should! of course, when they tried it out it had actually already been driven 20 miles to the dealership with the air in early morning and then the Honda service department tested it out, there was cool air and said it's blowing just fine now.

- Stokesdale, NC, USA

problem #2

Dec 302018

Pilot

  • 10,000 miles
2018 Honda Pilot elite-- while driving on a small, congested, curvy two-lane road, in a popular tourist destination, my frontal impact sensors alerted me to frontal impact multiple times by shaking my steering wheel. The dash lights also flashed the word "brake" in orange and black. This so-called "safety" feature almost cause me to lose control of the vehicle several times on this road because of the shaking steering wheel. This frontal impact alert always occurred when a large rv type of vehicle passed by me. Although I later discovered an "off" switch for this frontal impact alert system, I shouldn't have to turn off multiple "safety" sensors every time I start the vehicle. If you do not turn off these "safety" sensors, they will actual create unsafe conditions by shaking your steering wheel.

- Rogersville, TN, USA

problem #1

Dec 302018

Pilot

  • 10,000 miles
My 2018 Honda Pilot elite turns on the "auto idle stop" feature each time I start the vehicle. Basically, this means that the engine shuts off when I'm at a complete stop. When I release the brake, the engine starts again. However, there is lag time between the time I release the brake and acceleration. This has nearly caused a deathly accident on more than a dozen occasions during the past 6 months at intersections. I've nearly been T-boned each and every time because the vehicle will simply not accelerate at the precise moment when I need it to. There is over a 1 second lag before acceleration occurs. Perhaps this is meant to be an emissions control feature, but it comes at the price of safety. This "auto idle stop" feature makes the vehicle completely unsafe to drive for families. There should be a permanent on/off switch rather than having to turn this feature off each and every time I start the vehicle. Completely unsafe!

- Rogersville, TN, USA

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