2012 Honda Pilot: engine stalls while driving

Filed Apr 16, 2015 · Engine, Transmission · 10 miles · CA

Tl* the contact owns a 2012 honda pilot. The contact stated that while attempting to accelerate, the vehicle stalled without warning. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. The technician was unable to find a failure. The transmission fluid and oil were changed. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 10. Updated 6/3/15*cn updated 06/09/15

Filed Jan 10, 2014 · Engine · 15,000 miles · MD

My vehicle vibrates when I am driving. It does not behave this way all the time. However, when the vehicle vibrates, it seems as though it wants to shut off. This has been happening frequently since I purchased my vehicle. It usually happens when I slow down to make a turn or while I am cruising at highway speed. When this happen, the eco light on my dash goes on and on... The vibration seems like I am driving a manual transmission vehicle, and failed to shift to the appropriate gear. I am not sure if it is the vcm in my vehicle being faulty. I have taken my vehicle to the dealer on 3 separate occasions and they mechanic tells me it is normal. This is not normal. I am afraid my vehicle may stall in traffic and cause accident. The other issue I am having is I occasionally smell a strong gasoline fumes in my vehicle cabin when I am driving. It seems the gasoline fume is entering my vehicle from the engine. Can't tell where it is coming from. Perhaps through the AC vent.

Filed Jun 10, 2013 · Engine · 20,800 miles · CA

Tl* the contact owns a 2012 honda pilot. The contact stated that while driving 30 MPH, the vehicle stalled and lost acceleration power. The contact took the vehicle to a dealer for a diagnostic testing. The test result did not identify a defect in the vehicle. The dealer changed the main computer but that did not remedy the stalling issue. The failure was reported to the manufacturer. The failure mileage was 20,800.

Filed Dec 6, 2012 · Engine · 571 miles · VA

Engine has a fine vibration around 35-45 miles that disappears with either acceleration or deceleration. The vibration can be felt not only by the driver but also the passengers, enough to shake a bobblehead on the console. It seems that it is associated with the transmission as if the transmission is not shifting and stalling. As soon as it shifts or the speed changes it disappears. Another issue is a occasional very hard downshifting by the transmission, hard enough to move everyone in the vehicle. The symptoms were present they day the vehicle was delivered and checked by the dealer and reported no issues. Now the vehicle is about 11,000 miles and still with the same issues.

Filed Apr 18, 2012 · 125 miles · MD

Two days after purchase of the vehicle, the vehicle has rough idle upon start and stalls. This has happened three times in three days. Honda has no fix for the problem at this time. Honda advised they are not aware of the problem, yet I was able to find the federal safety agency reports that involve the same problem.

Filed Mar 22, 2012 · Engine, Fuel system · 63 miles · MA

2012 honda pilot - does not start consistently. Consistently has a rough start, and often stalls. Within days of owning my brand new 2012 honda pilot, the car stalled when I attempted to start it in my garage. I immediately brought the car into the dealership. The dealer's service department could not find a problem. They kept the car for the day, then reported to me that honda of america is aware of the problem and trying to fix it. They promised to keep me posted on the status of the honda of america engineers progress on the issue. Six weeks went by, and the problem persisted with intermittent calls from my local service manager. I was told not to bother to bring it in for service each time it stalled because they were waiting for a recall/fix from corporate. After six weeks, multiple stalls, which were all reported to my dealer as requested, I was then advised, by my dealer to contact honda of america myself get some results. I spoke with honda of amercia's nice, but useless customer service representative for two weeks, and got fed up with her inability to do anything other than agree that my problem was unacceptable. Then I called the gm of the dealership, explained my frustration & continued problems with my brand new honda pilot. He claimed to not have heard of my problem before, and quickly agreed to fulfilled my request to trade my vehicle in for a different car, same model - 2012 honda pilot in the hopes that my car was a lemon. Within less than 24 hours of owning this second 2012 honda pilot, my new car stalled. I have recently been on youtube and discovered that this is a common problem with the 2012 honda pilots, and has also been reported with some 2011 honda pilots. This is unacceptable for a new car to be so unreliable.