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Old Jan 16, 2020 | 10:40 PM
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We have an 18 Pilot Touring we bought brand new. Shortly after getting it home the radio started having issues, it would suddenly drop the station (satellite or FM) and the only way to get it back on was to restart the vehicle. The voice commands, especially with navigation have NEVER worked. You can tell it to navigate to Costco Denver Colorado and it will ask something like, "Did you say Mike's Barn Des Moines Iowa?" they have reset the system several times and it still doesn't work. The wireless Honda headsets have always had static even with new batteries. About two months ago I started noticing that we suddenly dropped about 10 to 13 miles per gallon on the highway with the exact same conditions as two months previous. I was told by Honda it was because it was colder. The engine auto idle stop has worked sporadically since we got the vehicle. The biggest problem is that my wife was driving the Pilot down a hill in a neighborhood, with a full tank of gas, and turned a corner. As soon as she did she noticed the vehicle "felt weird." She told me that the low oil indicator and the voltage indicator were flashing and several other warnings were going off. She coasted it to a stop, stepped on the brake, and pressed the start button. Exactly one week later I was driving, full tank of gas, and stopped at a curb to let my family out. I pressed park, with the engine running and my family got out. As soon as they closed the doors I pressed drive again and it wouldn't engage. I then noticed that the DVD player was off, the air system was dead, the entire infotainment system was dark, and the instrument cluster was black with the tachometer at 0. I pressed the brake and pressed start. It began running again. Once they had it for a couple weeks I was told that since they couldn't find any notification of problems in the car's memory banks, that there was nothing wrong and everything was running like it was supposed to. I was then told that this car was very high tech and it probably felt like the engine was shutting off and that they were happy to show me how to work my car. If it's user error why did it not happen until 18,000 miles and ownership for about 18 months? Anyone else having all these problems?
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