USA Today - Over 1.4 million Honda, Acura vehicles subject of US probe over potential engine failure

[wemay]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...ura-engine-failure-investigation/76205571007/


The company recalled nearly 250,000 vehicles for the same issue in 2023. That recall saw 1,450 warranty claims with no reports of injuries or deaths, according to documents from the safety administration.

I'm beginning to think Mazda will take over the reliability top spot soon.

 

[cptbarkey]

One Hundred and Seventy Three incidents. Is that a big number? What is the body count vs Toyota's? My bet is Toyota still won that sad statistic with its cursed TT engines.

 

[researcher]

adding to the link above.. below is the NHTSA link for the investigation


quoting from the article and nhtsa

from the usa today article
"The following vehicles are covered under the investigation:

• 2016-2020 Acura MDX
• 2018-2020 Acura TLX
• 2016-2020 Honda Pilot
• 2017-2019 Honda Ridgeline
• 2018-2020 Honda Odyssey"

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2024/INOA-RQ24013-27484.pdf
from the NHTSA link:
"The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) has received 173 Vehicle Owner Questionnaire (VOQ)reports of failing connecting rod bearings in Model Year (MY) 2018-2020 Acura TLX, MY2016-2020Acura MDX, MY2016-2020 Honda Pilot, MY2018-2019 Honda Odyssey, and MY2017-2019 HondaRidgeline vehicles equipped with the 3.5 liter V6 engine. Recall 23V-751 was issued by the
Investigation: RQ24013
manufacturer to address this type of failure within certain production ranges of these vehicles. All 173 VOQs display failures that have characteristics consistent with those addressed in recall23V-751 but are out of the scope of the recall"

 

[wemay]

One Hundred and Seventy Three incidents. Is that a big number? What is the body count vs Toyota's? My bet is Toyota still won that sad statistic with its cursed TT engines.

Yes, actual incidents is low. If i would have seen that, i wouldn't have posted the story. I paid more attention to the warranty claims from a similar recall in 2023. Now it's wait and see for recall info.

 

[ctechbob]

Crazy that they took one of the best engines on the planet (J-Series V6) and completely hosed it up so bad to start ringing up failures to the point of lawsuits.

 

[double vanos]

And to think I worried about my Kia…..

 

[jhs914]

My wife has a 2016 Acura RDX with the 3.5 V6 (131,000 miles). I wonder why it was not included in the list of recalled engines when the same year MDX and Pilot are. It is a Japanese manufactured car so maybe that is the difference.

 

[Glenda W.]

My wife has a 2016 Acura RDX with the 3.5 V6 (131,000 miles). I wonder why it was not included in the list of recalled engines when the same year MDX and Pilot are. It is a Japanese manufactured car so maybe that is the difference.

My daughter also has a 2016 RDX(121,000 miles) which I maintain. I wonder if it’s only engines equipped with the cylinder deactivation(vcm)?

 

[jhs914]

My daughter also has a 2016 RDX(121,000 miles) which I maintain. I wonder if it’s only engines equipped with the cylinder deactivation(vcm)?

The 2016 RDX has VCM.

 

[Glenda W.]

The 2016 RDX has VCM.

In that case I have no idea why it wouldn’t be on the list.

 

[andrew_j]

In that case I have no idea why it wouldn’t be on the list.

All those vehicles listed are built in North America including engines.

 

[hrv]

As much as I like Honda and have had great results owing them I would be concerned if I was under the recall..like what is the repair..a tear down to fix it or a replacement engine...If it is a tear down and replace parts...Me I would be worried and get rid of the car...

 

[97prizm]

A friend of mine has a TLX sedan that had a full replacement engine put in it under warranty.

 

[hrv]

A friend of mine has a TLX sedan that had a full replacement engine put in it under warranty.

Well if they would give me a FULL engine and powertrain warranty I might keep it...might..

 

[bulwnkl]

Rod bearing failures in the J35?? That's REALLY surprising. Absolutely solid engines, generally.

This almost _has_ to be related to the combination of the DI retrofit (aka Earth Dreams) plus cylinder deactivation. Maybe the RDX isn't part of it due to very low overall incidence plus low RDX sales volumes?? I've no idea how many RDXs were sold in that time period. Neither would I offer any supposition as to why the issue 'went away' in subsequent model years.

 

[zzyzzx]

When I clicked on the article, I was expecting it to be about Honda's 1.5L engine.

 

[Exhaustgases]

Honda's suffering the dilution issues and now for awhile its the head gasket for CRV's with 1.5L. Engineers don't exist anymore. They haven't learned one thing from all the past experience.

 

[Gene K]

Engineers don't exist anymore.

Since it appears to only affect the engines built in the USA and not Japan, I wouldn't think it's an engineering issue. I wonder if the rod bearings are from the same supplier?