This month, March, for the third time my 2013 Honda Fit "rolled over and played dead" after driving it about four miles. It turned off all power from the battery to the vehicle. With a key in the ignition and turned to the start position, nothing happened; no starter, no dash lights, no radio, no nothing. It left me stranded. I had already lost faith in it from the previous encounters with this problem. After an earlier incident. I had installed a new battery in the vehicle, which it was due for. I got a ride home and came back to check on it about an hour and a half later. It started right up as it had the previous two times. I can't give a good time period as to how long it really takes to come back alive. When I picked it up this time and turned the steering wheel to back out of where it was parked, I noticed that the steering wheel was hard to turn at first, but it soon got back to normal. I took it back home and checked the battery voltage and it was at 12.5 volts. I also noticed that I needed to re-inter the radio code to make it work again as it had been without power.
So, it is no longer a reliable vehicle to drive. I did some research and concluded it was probably a faulty EPS system that was causing the problem. I took it to the Honda dealer in Flagstaff and told them what I suspected was the problem. They checked it out and only came up with the Idea that a battery cable was loose. I told them that I had put the new battery in the vehicle and that I was sure the cables were tight. So, as of now that is where it sits. I don't know or understand how the EPS system or any other system on the vehicle could turn the battery power off and on. But from what I have read, it seems to be happening to other Honda Fits for much shorter periods of time as they are moving down the road causing potentially dangerous situations.
A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
This month, March, for the third time my 2013 Honda Fit "rolled over and played dead" after driving it about four miles. It turned off all power from the battery to the vehicle. With a key in the ignition and turned to the start position, nothing happened; no starter, no dash lights, no radio, no nothing. It left me stranded. I had already lost faith in it from the previous encounters with this problem. After an earlier incident. I had installed a new battery in the vehicle, which it was due for. I got a ride home and came back to check on it about an hour and a half later. It started right up as it had the previous two times. I can't give a good time period as to how long it really takes to come back alive. When I picked it up this time and turned the steering wheel to back out of where it was parked, I noticed that the steering wheel was hard to turn at first, but it soon got back to normal. I took it back home and checked the battery voltage and it was at 12.5 volts. I also noticed that I needed to re-inter the radio code to make it work again as it had been without power.
So, it is no longer a reliable vehicle to drive. I did some research and concluded it was probably a faulty EPS system that was causing the problem. I took it to the Honda dealer in Flagstaff and told them what I suspected was the problem. They checked it out and only came up with the Idea that a battery cable was loose. I told them that I had put the new battery in the vehicle and that I was sure the cables were tight. So, as of now that is where it sits. I don't know or understand how the EPS system or any other system on the vehicle could turn the battery power off and on. But from what I have read, it seems to be happening to other Honda Fits for much shorter periods of time as they are moving down the road causing potentially dangerous situations.
- Thomas H., Williams, AZ, USA, US