CarComplaints.com Notes: It's worrying when the top category for 2016 Honda Pilot problems are transmission problems. Owners report jerking when accelerating. Also as the first model year of the redesigned 3rd generation Pilot, it's not a good sign.
Honda released a TSB on October 29 2016 that's possibly related. The TSB deals with a "a judder from the torque converter lock-up clutch ... while driving between 20 and 60 mph" due to deteriorated transmission fluid resulting from "specific driving conditions". In the TSB, Honda states they are developing a software fix to try to keep the transmission fluid temperature within spec.
We are keeping a close eye on this defect trend because if certain driving conditions can affect transmission shifting in the first year of ownership, we'd hate to think what 10+ years will do.
Sometimes when I drive my car it brakes by itself. When I leave for work in the morning, I back out of the driveway and put the car in drive, the car will go a few feet and then the brake goes on. To keep moving, I need to give it a little extra gas. The engine revs loudly. Then at the corner of my block, which is approximately 500 feet from my driveway, I brake for the stop sign. When I go around the corner the car goes a few feet and brakes itself again. I have to push down on the gas again and get the revving. Next the traffic light. It's about 1/4 mile from the corner. If the light is green, I have no problem. If I have to stop, I have the same problem as at the driveway and stop sign. I drive about another 500 ft and make a left turn stopping at the bottom of a small hill. And yes, when I attempt to make the next left turn, the car will go a few feet and then brake. After that, even with another stop coming up, I have no more problems, but will have them again after my car has been idle for my 12-hour work shift.
Two things, one: the braking isn't so bad that I get thrown forward too hard, just a quick jerk, and two: I don't have to stomp on the gas to get the car moving again, just give it a little something extra. Just another thing I've thought of, I don't have a garage for my car. It sits out but this problem has happened in both cold, warm, hot, sunny, cloudy or rainy weather. I reported this problem to my mechanic, but it didn't happen for him since I had already driven the car to his shop. I worry I'll get be rear ended. I hope this makes sense.
Purchased a NEW Honda Pilot 2016, I'm having issues with the sensors going off and the car braking on its own. I've been driving on a freeway and the car suddenly brakes. Once it happened while I was making a left hand turn braking in the middle of an intersection.
I've called Honda a tech looked at the car but claimed he was unable to reproduce it. Honda refuses to fix the car. I own a 40K + car and feel unsafe in it.
- Darlene W.,
Torrance, CA, US
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Sometimes when I drive my car it brakes by itself. When I leave for work in the morning, I back out of the driveway and put the car in drive, the car will go a few feet and then the brake goes on. To keep moving, I need to give it a little extra gas. The engine revs loudly. Then at the corner of my block, which is approximately 500 feet from my driveway, I brake for the stop sign. When I go around the corner the car goes a few feet and brakes itself again. I have to push down on the gas again and get the revving. Next the traffic light. It's about 1/4 mile from the corner. If the light is green, I have no problem. If I have to stop, I have the same problem as at the driveway and stop sign. I drive about another 500 ft and make a left turn stopping at the bottom of a small hill. And yes, when I attempt to make the next left turn, the car will go a few feet and then brake. After that, even with another stop coming up, I have no more problems, but will have them again after my car has been idle for my 12-hour work shift.
Two things, one: the braking isn't so bad that I get thrown forward too hard, just a quick jerk, and two: I don't have to stomp on the gas to get the car moving again, just give it a little something extra. Just another thing I've thought of, I don't have a garage for my car. It sits out but this problem has happened in both cold, warm, hot, sunny, cloudy or rainy weather. I reported this problem to my mechanic, but it didn't happen for him since I had already driven the car to his shop. I worry I'll get be rear ended. I hope this makes sense.
- Jamie C., Little Falls, US