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3189 messages, Last post on Dec 02, 2009 at 3:25 AM
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Hello, It's chilly and windy morning and the door locks won't open with the remote key. After trying this for about 10-15 minutes, I tried the manual lock and that worked. Is this normal to happen in winter? Never happened with any of my previous cars in weather worse than this. Has anyone seen anything like this before? Is something wrong with my pilot? It's a 2008, EX-L with Navi, looks like Honda quality is going down, since I also have another creaking noise problem coming from the steering wheel.
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Replying to: hondapilot08 (Jan 16, 2009 6:51 am) Has anyone had a problem with the "Side airbag Off" light coming on, even though there is absolutely nothing in the seat? Every few days, mine will come on for no apparent reason. It may stay on for a few seconds or a few minutes. Doesn't seem to matter if the car is cold or warm or how long it has been on the road. It may come on and off several times during a trip or it may not come on at all. A Honda service writer said it was nothing to worry about and they would not be able to find the problem until it stayed on all the time. Any Ideas?? |
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Replying to: hondapilot08 (Jan 16, 2009 6:51 am) I'd still love to hear from anyone who has figured out how to get the transmission into the lower gears. I appreciate the comments from one person, but the idea that I need to "wiggle" it around after we spent $30k+ on the thing wouldn't sit well w/me.  If there's a magic solution, cool. If not, then it looks like I'll just have to take it into the shop. Overall though, I love the Pilot. If it didn't look silly to have two of them in our garage I'd probably buy one for myself. |
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Replying to: strokeoluck2 (Jan 14, 2009 6:33 pm) |
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Replying to: strokeoluck2 (Jan 16, 2009 3:03 pm) Below is the manual page 207 for 08 Pilot re whether have the lever pull toward you before doing up/down or just shift up/down. 
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Replying to: bigdadi118 (Jan 17, 2009 1:57 pm) So are you saying I should be trying to shift into D3 *without* the brakes applied? I'm already pulling the shift lever towards me, so I have that part figured out.
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Replying to: strokeoluck2 (Jan 18, 2009 6:27 pm) The rest can be done while the car is moving. I tried from D to D3 and it is just push down the lever, without pulling the lever toward your. If bringing the D3 back to D, it requires to pull the lever toward you first then lift up to D. A little confusing of when to pull the lever or not to. |
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Replying to: bigdadi118 (Jan 17, 2009 1:57 pm) We were on a snow hill in MA and I tried to put the car in D3 to slow the engine and car down without breaking, it would not go into lower gears at all. Even when I stopped and then tried to put it into the lower gears, it would not go past D. Anyone, Anyone, Bueller????? |
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My Pilot; 2008 EX-L 4WD The lever will move with the proper massaging, although I'd like to think the folks that designed this thing were fired. As far as the lever itself goes, it was such an annoyance to owners, Honda dumped it for '09. I use this vehicle for weekend winter commutes over an 11,000 ft. pass in winter. I was able to downshift the first time I tried it going down that pass on the snow slicked road. Here is the sad part: There is zero appreciable compression braking provided, no matter how low I shifted. And I shifted ALL the way down. Engine RPMs went up, and I continued to accelerate. Brakes were the ONLY way to slow the Pilot down. My 6800 lb. F250 with a V10 and auto tranny, definitely slows when I use the engine for braking on this drive. The Honda? Not at all. Don't get me started on the retarded "skid control" computer, either. It's solution to skid control? Stop the vehicle. 
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Replying to: joemama33 (Jan 20, 2009 7:28 am) It is weird that the lower gears can't provide the car slowing down as D3 will locked to 1st to max 3rd gear, 2 will locked to 1st to max 2nd gear and 1 to the 1st or so. RPM should go up as the engine was in lower gears. This helps and supplement to the braking but won't stop the car if use alone, though. |
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