I bought this 2025 Trail sport in December 2024... It currently has 15,000km. I had to add oil in April, and again in July...I brought this up with the dealer....they kept a service record open .....I just had my first service.... They did a full oil/filter and rear diff oil change...as well as CPU programming recall and the PCV valve replaced.... I still have an outstanding recall for a break pedal pin..... I'm just saying what has happened to the rock solid Honda reputation of old....this new pilot is seeming like the QC is **** poor. I have had 2 civics, a CR-X (loved that car) an element, a Ridgeline and this is my second pilot....this my my 1st Honda product still under warranty with all kinds of BIG issues.....burning oil should not be a thing in a car with less than 15000km. The CR-X burned oil, but it took 250,000 hard KM before that happened. Anyone else finding these issues?

 

My '25 RL TS that I picked up in April burned a quart in the first 1500 miles but has been rock solid since. To be fair, it's a different engine than the one in the Pilot and I've put less than half the miles on mine than you have on yours. Not sure why your dealer is servicing the diff at 15k, that's a 20k mile/48k km service. You can almost always expect a brand-new engine to consume a little oil at first, especially if you are babying it.

The platform and powertrain of your Pilot are fairly new designs (2023+), and there are always going to be some bugs. I don't really see any of the issues you listed as "major" honestly, and they're making good by recalling and fixing them. I can also say that as a dealer wrench at the end of the last century and beginning of this one that there were just as many recalls, TSBs, and updates as there are now - Maybe even more. I remember tearing apart the power doors of almost every Odyssey, replacing ecus left and right in just about everything, addressing failed evap systems, swapping cylinder heads for sinking valve seats, on and on. All mass production cars have problems, always, especially as they get more complicated. We just tend to look at the past with rose colored glasses.