2003 Honda Pilot: seat belt won't latch or retract

Filed Sep 4, 2015 · Seat belts · 191,000 miles · CO · crash · fire

Traveling south bound on nevada ave in colorado springs a car turned in front of us. Our front right hit his rear passenger side of vehicle, he was spun around and our airbags deployed. After getting out of vehicle to check on other driver I came back and had my wife and kid get out of vehicle. Police were on scene very quickly due to accident occurring in front of hospital, the officer noticed smoke in car and a couple minutes later there was a fire on passenger side of vehicle behind center garnish pillar. I tried to put it out while officer went to get a fire extinguisher burnt my hand due to burning plastic from lower center pillar garnish melting. Looks like fire was started somewhere in the seatbelt retraction area. No medical attention was needed and my hand was ok after a few days.

Filed May 10, 2012 · Seat belts · TX

Tl* the contact owns a 2003 honda pilot. The contact stated that a child was sitting in the middle seat next to the driver side window. The child was able to grab the shoulder belt of the middle seat belt and the seat belt became wrapped around the child. The seat belt then locked and began choking the child. The contact had to sever the seat belt in order to remove the child. The contact took the vehicle to the dealer and was told that the seat belt could not be replaced because it had been cut. The VIN was not available. The failure mileage was unavailable and the current mileage was 165,000.

Filed Oct 20, 2011 · Transmission · 107,000 miles · LA

As I was driving down a busy highway this morning my transmission started violently jerking in and out of gears so hard it was throwing me forward and my seatbelt was locking. After the jerking the RPM's went to 5,000 at 55 MPH and the malfunction indicator lamp came on. I pulled over and had my vehicle towed home. The jerking was so bad the people behind me slowed down to avoid a collision. I do have two small children that ride in this vehicle and seeing that I am not the only person with this issue, why hasn't honda owned up to this problem. I could have been seriously injured from this not to mention how scared I was while it was happening. This is a safety concern! Honda obviously did not fix the original problem. I have notified honda motor corporation and have filed a complaint, my vehicle is being towed to the dealership to have a diagnostics done and sent to the "case worker", who should contact me in 24-48 hours. If honda does not fix this problem and someone dies as a result of the transmission locking up, they are going to be in serious trouble. Why don't these corporations fix the problems before a life is taken. I expect way more than 107,000 miles out of my pilot transmission.

Filed Sep 18, 2008 · Seat belts, Seats · CO

We bought our 2003 honda pilot assuming that it would be a great family vehicle. We have three small children and another on the way so our car is full of car seats. We have a backless boaster seat in the third row on the driver's side, a boaster seat in the third row on the passenger side, and a forward facing car seat in the second row driver's side. It is incredible difficult for me to get the children in the third row buckled because the seat belts are constantly getting "stuck" and have to be rethread all the way back. This is difficult because they get caught on the boaster seats that then have to be picked up and moved around to get the seat belt off. Also, the seat on the seat on the passenger side is too narrow and the seat belt buckles very low, close to the seat and it ends up underneath the boaster seat. These difficulties make it nearly impossible for my preschoolers to buckle by themselves and forces me to climb back in their seat to fix the seat belts and move the booster seat forward to buckle them in. It is incredible difficult and uncomfortable for an adult to climb into the third row seat, especially one that is seven months pregnant. We have tried moving the seats around and can not find any better positions for the car seats.

Filed Oct 16, 2006 · Transmission · 96,000 miles · CA

My honda pilot 2003 ex 5 speed automatic transmission was "repaired" under a prior recall by dealer in september 2004. On october 6, 2006, the transmission completely failed as I was driving down the highway at approximately 65 m.p.h. Without acceleration, the vehicle lurched forward suddenly and hard, such that my seat belt did not catch me and lock and pushed me into the drivers wheel. When I got home, the car would not go into reverse and started to roll down the hill. I had it towed to the dealer, who told me that since they had fixed it in 2004 I would have to pay between $4,000 and $5,000 for a "new" transmission. I was never told of this defect when I purchased the car, although I was offered an extended warranty on the transmission, which american honda's representative said I should have purchased and that said offer should have warned me of the transmission defect. I asked american honda to repair it without cost to me, as the first repair was clearly defective, and I was told a "manager" would get back to me in 48 hours. I have now gone 10 days without my car. This is unacceptable. Had traffic not been light, the incident on 10-6 could easily have caused an accident.

Filed Oct 30, 2003 · Airbags, Seat belts · 20,275 miles · MI · crash · 2 injuries

While traveling 50 MPH another driver turned in front of my pilot without signaling. The whole right front of my vehicle was pushed in. The problem was that the air bags didn't deploy and according to witnesses the seat belt didn't lock. As a result I bounced off steering wheel twice. 2 days later I received a recall notice from honda saying that air bags are not deploying or deploying late. I believe that my injuries would have been less severe had the air bags deployed and/or the seat belt locked.