All routine maintenance has been completed by a NC dealership. Have completed most if not all recommendations set by that dealership and Honda.
Received a letter about recall if dealing with hesitation when accelerating. They are only serving those with error codes, but with my description, they were able to diagnose a different issue, I believe a related issue that warranted a TCM software update and performed a throttle body cleaning.
All was ready for a 6 hour/300 mile trip North that weekend.
Pilot was running like new. No hesitation in accelerating. BUT…Trying to come back from trip, 15 miles into trip home check engine light was flashing. Stopped at safe location off 95. Let cool, restarted and tested in parking lot. Seemed good. But when accelerating to merge back onto 95, we had all system failure and all systems were dinging on dash and saying “(name of system) failed”. I’ve come to learn this is “limp mode”. Got family and car to safe space and got towed to nearest Honda Dealership.
Had to wait a day to look and run diagnostic. They found we needed a new camshaft and that would get us home. Stayed another night and then told we would need a new engine. The camshaft didn’t take.
All this to ask….anyone else having to replace a sub 150k mile 2018 Honda Pilot engine? bviously Honda won’t cover anything.
Could any computer/updates they made for hesitation messed up the timing to end up destroying the camshaft and then the engine as a result?
Any other ideas?
Received a letter about recall if dealing with hesitation when accelerating. They are only serving those with error codes, but with my description, they were able to diagnose a different issue, I believe a related issue that warranted a TCM software update and performed a throttle body cleaning.
All was ready for a 6 hour/300 mile trip North that weekend.
Pilot was running like new. No hesitation in accelerating. BUT…Trying to come back from trip, 15 miles into trip home check engine light was flashing. Stopped at safe location off 95. Let cool, restarted and tested in parking lot. Seemed good. But when accelerating to merge back onto 95, we had all system failure and all systems were dinging on dash and saying “(name of system) failed”. I’ve come to learn this is “limp mode”. Got family and car to safe space and got towed to nearest Honda Dealership.
Had to wait a day to look and run diagnostic. They found we needed a new camshaft and that would get us home. Stayed another night and then told we would need a new engine. The camshaft didn’t take.
All this to ask….anyone else having to replace a sub 150k mile 2018 Honda Pilot engine? bviously Honda won’t cover anything.
Could any computer/updates they made for hesitation messed up the timing to end up destroying the camshaft and then the engine as a result?
Any other ideas?
