CarComplaints.com Notes: Previously we had awarded the 2010 Pilot "Seal of Pretty Good", but have since removed that honor due to all the continuing complaints about excessive oil consumption.
This Honda Pilot oil consumption defect was subject to a class action lawsuit in 2013. However not all 2010 Honda Pilots were covered by the settlement & by now the warranty extension has expired. The oil consumption complaints keep coming in.
2.8
hardly worth mentioning
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
50,728 miles
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Engine seized at 109.369mi unexpectedly on the highway with regular maintenance and clean full oil and gasoline. Honda is aware of the potential as per their class action settlement settlement-claims.com/enginemisfire/courtdocuments.html. https://www.carcomplaints.com/Honda/Pilot/2009/engine/engine_failure.shtml https://www.carcomplaints.com/Honda/Pilot/2009/engine/excessive_oil_consumption.shtml after complaints of oil burning and misfiring and lack of acceleration, Honda did not address the issue and is allowing vehicles such as this to remain in service risking the lives of thousands of unsuspecting owners of these family vehicles as well as owners of their civics and odysees. Please do something before people die. These cars are coming up on the mileage where the engines will seize!
2010 Honda Pilot exl with approx 100,000 miles with the following issues: Check engine light code P3400, very low oil pressure, replaced two oil pressure switches, torque converter beginning to fail causing vibration and shuddering at 45 - 50 mph with low accelerator pressure. Car is burning excessive oil approx 1qt per 1,000 miles.
Have noticed a shudder for quite some time when accelerating around the 40 mph point and also during deceleration around the 40 mph point, seems to be a grinding as the automatic gears are changing, I reported this to dealer at last two regular maintenance, the first time they didn't find issues, second time they explained it was the "torque converter" and would be $2250 to repair and would need to leave the vehicle while they order parts and replace. I opted to not repair at this time as I wanted to research the issue. I am seeing lots of complaints about this issue in the Honda Pilot. Of course the warranty expired end of last year (08/2016).
Excessive vibration in front end when eco light turns on indicating cylinder shut down and when driving over 30 mph problem began after approx 50,000 miles.
- Naugatuck, CT, USA
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My vehicle has about 145K miles. For a couple years now, it has shuddered when accelerating between 25-40 mph. Feels like transmission issue. I have maintained to the letter. When I did some research, I found that this is a very common problem with this model and Honda has yet to remedy it. I took it to an independent dealer and they confirmed it was transmission overhaul needed based on computer error codes and troubleshooting. I wanted to report this as I believe Honda is turning the other way on a critical system (that can be safety related) on this model.
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- Aguada, PR, USA