CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2006 Honda Pilot is a solid trouble-free model year with no major problems reported, except for a minor trend of window regulator failure. However that's an easy fix of a few hundred dollars -- not a big inconvenience for an older vehicle, all things considered.
4.0
definitely annoying
Typical Repair Cost:
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Average Mileage:
50 miles
Total Complaints:
1 complaints
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honda america does not acknowledge this as a defect (1 reports)
The 2006 Pilot radio has an LCD display. When viewed through polarized glasses, the LCD display has a large dark area that partially obscures the radio station number.
It took me a few days of watching this dark spot appear and disappear before I finally realized that it was only there when I wore my sunglasses. But once I realized that, I figured that it was now going to be easy enough to show it to the service people and get it fixed. A brand new vehicle should not have a blemish in the radio display. And I know enough about LCD displays and electronics manufacturing to know that the defect is due poor assembly or design that causes one of the LCD layers to be wrinkled or distorted at the site of the blemish.
I was very disappointed by Honda's response that my complaint was "not a defect" since I could only see it while wearing polarized glasses.
A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
The 2006 Pilot radio has an LCD display. When viewed through polarized glasses, the LCD display has a large dark area that partially obscures the radio station number.
It took me a few days of watching this dark spot appear and disappear before I finally realized that it was only there when I wore my sunglasses. But once I realized that, I figured that it was now going to be easy enough to show it to the service people and get it fixed. A brand new vehicle should not have a blemish in the radio display. And I know enough about LCD displays and electronics manufacturing to know that the defect is due poor assembly or design that causes one of the LCD layers to be wrinkled or distorted at the site of the blemish.
I was very disappointed by Honda's response that my complaint was "not a defect" since I could only see it while wearing polarized glasses.
- rrm151, Lititz, PA, US