general problems of the 2012 Honda Pilot

The contact owns a 2012 Honda Pilot. The contact stated while parking the vehicle, the vehicle experienced an increased rpm while the brake pedal was depressed. The brake pedal was depressed to the floorboard and the vehicle then unintendedly accelerated. No warning lights were illuminated. The contact made a local dealer aware of the failure; however, the vehicle was not yet diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 149,400.

While trying to stop at a red light on a regular city street last night my car kept on moving even when pushing really hard on the brakes!! I switched the gear to neutral and the engine made a very loud noise and I kept on moving the gear between neutral park and so till the gas pedal got disengaged and car went back to normal . Luckily no cars were in front of me and no one got hurt.

I was in stop and go traffic in rush hour, traveling in the middle lane of a 3 lane interstate highway. One of my daughters was traveling in the front passenger seat and the other one was I seated behind me. I had been traveling for about 45 minutes at a maximum speed of approximately 20 mph, as traffic would clear and then become congested again. I was maintaining about 5 car lengths between my car and the car ahead of me. I tapped my accelerator to move up which caused my Pilot to shoot forward. I thought to myself it was lucky I had maintained a good distance with the car in front and applied the brakes to slow down. The car continued to surge, and I could hear the engine revving. I began screaming, and my daughter in the front seat was yelling for me to hit the brakes. I told her I was pressing the brakes, but the car continued to accelerate, despite my applying with great pressure on the brake. My daughter could also hear the engine revving. We slammed into the car in front of us, and continued moving. This car rear ended a pick up truck which finally stopped my Pilot. Both front seat airbags deployed, and my car became attached to the car I rear ended. Luckily, everyone involved in the accident was able to walk away, but if the driver I had struck had passengers, there definitely would have been severe injuries. I received a ticket from a state trooper for failure to maintain a safe driving distance for an accident that was not my fault.

On may 17, 2016, in my driveway, I was trying to move my 2012 Pilot from beside my husband's vehicle to behind it so my son could pull into the driveway. I pressed the gas pedal to move behind my husband's truck and it moved up a little before it accelerated to a high speed slamming his truck into the garage and crushing it. I hit the brakes, but it didn't help. The engine was revving and tires were spinning as fast as they could. The airbag hit me in the face causing me to jerk the steering wheel to the right, which then caused the Pilot to drive across my front yard at a high speed crashing into my neighbor's tree with my foot still on the brake! the engine only stopped when my husband ran out of my house and turned off the Pilot. At that point, I didn't know what was happening because I had been hit so hard in the face by the airbag. The Pilot was inspected today by Honda corporate at a Honda dealership against my better judgment. Of course after a thorough inspection, "no cause was found for unintentional acceleration. " there seems to be a pattern of this same thing happening to other people and Honda not taking responsibility. Something needs to be done before someone is seriously hurt!.

Two occurrences of car lunging forward 10-20 feet acting like being rear-ended. Foot was firmly pressed on the brake pedal and car lunges many feet, this occurred two times in one day. Two days prior to this incident, I was unable to successfully stop at an intersection as the engine would not rev down and braking was impossible to accomplish. Honda cars of mckinney TX is unable to diagnose the issue. Honda headquarters sent out a specialized technician who also can¿t replicate or diagnose the issue.

Purchased the vehicle used from a franchise dealer and am the second owner. The engine hesitates at low speeds (approx. 10 mph) when accelerating. This becomes apparent when attempting accelerate from a stop light, accelerating from a turn, merging onto a freeway, changing lanes, etc. It does happen periodically and I am unable to reproduce the issue on-demand, but it seems to happen daily whenever the car feels like it. I am surprised there is no recall issued for this, as I have already had a couple of near missing when trying to merge onto the freeway with steady flowing traffic and when crossing an intersection from one side of the street to the other. I have yet to take the vehicle to the dealer, as it is out of warranty and there does not appear to be a solution to this issue, so I want to understand what my options are. I'll be reaching out to american Honda soon.

Good morning, this seems to be a frequent problem on our vehicle. When we come do a stop and then try to accelerate, the vehicle hesitates (2-3 sec. ). In the meantime, I'm still pressing the accelertor down trying to get the vehicle to go. Eventually, the vehicle catches, but then wants to take off (accelerate fast). Recently, my wife said she came to a stop, went to cross the street, and as the vehicle started to move, she couldn't get the vehicle to go and eventually had to stomp the pedal to avoid an oncoming vehicle. I have attached a link to a Honda forum. This seems to be a farely common problem and it doesn't seem Honda has a solution. . Read more...

Problem: while trying to accelerate, there is a resistance/hesitation that is felt in the gas pedal and the engine has trouble increasing rpm's. This is an intermittent issue. Case I: while in a parking lot, trying to pick up a little speed. Gas pedal has resistance and engine won't pick up speed. I keep my foot steady on the accelerator and then Pilot picks up speed in a unexpected rush. High level of danger due to people present in the area; as there was an unexpected amount of speed. Case road type: three lane road in each direction of traffic. While in the legal u-turn lane, I observe that there is enough distance to make a u-turn. From a stop I try to pick up speed (I was aiming for 5k rpm's, I know how far to press the gas pedal to get that response). A great resistance and lack of response from the gas pedal was felt. There was minimal acceleration happening and then after about 6 to 8 seconds, the engine was able to get to 6k rpm's. As the cars approached faster I almost got rear ended. As there have been more cases, these are to two most dangerous ones. *note: the resistance/hesitation of the gas pedal happens under any temperature in the cabin.

Intermitent accellerator response delay. Sometimes when you need to accellerate, as when making a left turn in traffic, the response delays and then responds. This is a safety issue. You cannot depend upon response to the accellerator when you may need it. Honda upgraded a program earlier and there was improvement, but the problem still persists.

I purchased this vehicle from brickell Honda in miami with 7,000 miles. I had traded my 2010 Honda Pilot so I was very familiar with this vehicle in general. Immediatetly, I felt a hesitation when I pressed the gas pedal. At first I thought it was my imagination. However, after driving it for a week it became apparent that this was a huge safety issue as it continually hesitated when accelerating in traffic. I took it back to the dealer and expressed my safety concerns. They drove the car and told me that they could not duplicate the problem. Their "master mechanic" explained that it was a new feature with the Pilots's to save gas! I said, well this is very frightening when you press the gas and the gar does not move! they said there was nothing they could do as that is the way the car was made to run?! I have since seen many complaints identical to mine with the 2012 Honda Pilot. Frankly, I am not sure what to do but I wanted to be sure other owners knew of this issue.

The contact owns a 2012 Honda Pilot. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds and attempting to accelerate, the vehicle hesitated and lunged forward abnormally. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who was unable to diagnose the failure. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 200 and the current mileage was 55,000.