I have had a 2005 honda pilot for 2 1/2 years. On at least 3 occasions, the brakes apply themselves. It is a very dangerous event. The honda company must do something about this. The last incident of this type occurred last night, the date shown below.
2005 Honda Pilot brakes complaints
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Brakes lock up while drving down the road. Dealership says they don't know what is wrong with it. This has happened three times now. The car has been to the dealer twice. Keeps happening. Nearly rearended this last time. Research on the internet shows that I am not alone. Yet honda dealership claims they have never heard of this, they called headquarters and no one has heard of this. They want us to come and get it. I am afraid to drive it. It isn't safe to have your car locks its breaks out of no where. No warning at all. Another person on the internet reports it happened on the freeway!!! Car swerved all over, cars honked swerved to miss them. They have a claim number with honda as well. This is not safe and the honda dealership is acting like I should just forget about it and drive this car.
I was driving my 2005 honda pilot form my home and made a left turn out of my subdivision. Suddenly the vehicle made a loud grinding noise that seemed to come from the front of it. It went away and I continued driving slowly (about 15 - 20 MPH) to see if I could detect something further wrong or if I had run over something. As I found no indication of the cause of the noise I continued on. Within approximately one city block the vehicle seemed to apply the brakes and slowed itself to a crawl. I did not apply the brakes! The noise again occurred while this happened. The noise, I realized, was similar to anti-lock brakes activating during a hard stop. This occurred three more times in rapid succession and then went away. I continued on trying to figure out what was wrong and applied the brakes myself. They seemed to work ok. As I proceeded , the brakes once again applied themselves (with absolutely no action from me) another four times. At this time the vsa light came on the dash. I attempted to turn it off, but was not sure if it did turn off or not. I drove another two to three miles without further problems. On may 10, approximately three weeks after the first incident, the vsa light came on. I pulled over, shut off the car and restarted it as directed in the owner's manual and the vsa light did not come back on. Later that day, while driving with four people in the pilot I had made a left turn and had accelerated to about 40 MPH when the brakes again applied themselves, the pilot dived to the left and came to a complete stop. Again, I did not apply the brakes, the pilot did this itself. The vsa light had come on again and I followed the procedure in the owner's manual. This seemed to work once again. As everyone in the pilot had their seat belts on, no one was injured.
2005 honda pilot ex with less than 500 miles on it.. ~90% brake failure on vehicle on two occasions... 06/15/2005 and 06/24/2005. Taking to honda of concord (concord nc) to be reviewed... May or may not repair depending on if they can "duplicate" the problem but are aware of some cases of the master cylinder going completely out for a "moment". Alerting you all in case this happens to others and to have on record.
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