general problems of the 2016 Honda FIT - part 2

One dial on the instrument panel that shows mileage, etc. . Is displaying improperly. This happens more often in cold weather. It typically is malfunctioning when I first start the car. The dial can be completely empty or have some digits. The data is incorrect. This seems to go away after driving for a while. It doesn't happen every time but most times.

The digital display in the dash that shows fuel gauge, range, odometer, etc. . Will intermittently not display properly. It will either display improperly in a way that is unreadable, or the entire display will go blank while remaining backlit. It happens more often when it is cold out. I also noticed it initiate more during hard acceleration or braking, but it can also remain when the vehicle is parked after I have finished my commute. When the display comes back to working properly, it seems to read accurately again, but I don't want it to go out completely to the point where I no longer know how much fuel is in my vehicle or how many miles I have driven between maintenance.

While driving on a highway in 18 degree weather at night, the odometer and fuel gauge display (the furthest right section of the 3-instrument panel in front of the driver) blanked out. It came back, but blanked out again. Total time out was approximately 4 minutes. With this trim version (lx) is it not possible to obtain an odometer or fuel gauge reading through any other method. A later online search indicated this was an issue for 2015-2016 models, but no recall has been issued. I did not obtain photographic proof because I was traveling at highway speeds and it would have been unsafe to find my phone in the dark and fiddle with it to take a photograph.

Fuel gauge display which also includes mpg and odometer shows gibberish. This happens in all driving conditions.

The led odometer display, which includes the gas gauge and other vital information geos blank or is garbled and unreadable. This happens every day when I first turn it on and stays that way most of the day. Sometimes it will start to work and sometimes it stays that way all day.

About a year or two after purchasing the car new in 2016, we noticed that the instrument panel right side which has fuel gauge, odometer, trip information and other key operating vehicle information would go blank or the digital readout would go haywire and turn into gibberish. This generally happened on cold mornings and the display would revert to normal within 10 minutes to one hour. We took it to dealer where vehicle purchased in phoenix, who was unable to recreate the problem and therefore they did nothing. The problem has persisted since then but recently has worsened to the point where the display is blank almost all of the time and not working in hot weather as well. The only time I can see the gauges is when first starting car in morning, and then it often doesn't work to get to different functions one accesses by pushing a knob/button next to that display -- and stops working completely a short time later. I feel this is a dangerous problem because we can't tell how much gas we have in the car, can't determine mileage via odometer there and lack other key vehicle information that the manufacturer decided to put in a digital panel that is blank or goes blank most of the time. On my listing below of when this incident occurred, that is to indicate when the problem started happening, more or less. The incident has been ongoing since then. The problem started when vehicle had around 20-25k miles and we are now at 58k -- though it's hard for me to tell mileage because I can so rarely see the odometer. I believe odometers and probably fuel gauges are legally required to work in vehicles and mine has been faulty for years and during the warranty period. A recall is needed. Honda is charging more than $1,000 to replace these faulty displays on Honda Fits that are no longer under warranty, like mine, I am told.

Fuel gage display (including odometer, time and temperature) has disappeared. Backlight on, but no information displayed. This is unsafe when 40+ miles away from a gas station and cannot see the neither the fuel gage or the odometer! first occurred in 2019, with around 40,000 miles, as the years pass it goes out for longer periods of time and more frequently, almost daily, sometimes for a few days.

Today may 3rd 2018 vehicle traveling on city street when all icons tire pressure maintenance a malfunction codes all the cute little icons are lit up on the dash the performance of the vehicle was impaired and then the whole system shut down as I'm still traveling in my vehicle moving. I came to pawn someone in my vehicle with a computer laptop hooked up to my controls of my vehicle I ran after him he left so fast he fast transfer data chords. I did get my cell phone out and video record him and I chase him to his vehicle which I got the license plate type of car VIN number and video of him running. Cannot release photo video until fbi confirms.

Once the low tire pressure light is set by the tpms the vehicle owner cannot clear it since Honda has removed all manual and electronic reset options for the owner. With this light remaining on the owner effectively has no low tire pressure warning system. Correcting tire pressures and driving the required 60 miles or more does nothing.