general problems of the 2020 Honda Ridgeline - part 2

The contact owns a 2020 Honda Ridgeline. The contact stated while stopped, the automatic stop/start feature intermittently failed to operate as needed after the vehicle had shut off. The contact stated that the vehicle would independently shift to neutral(n) during the failure. The contact called the dealer and was asked to bring the vehicle in for a diagnostic test. The manufacturer was also notified of the failure and referred the contact back to the dealer for assistance. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 18,000. The VIN was not available.

Rear backup camera is not working.

Back up camera has stopped working. When the vehicle is put in reverse the guide lines continue to appear, while there is no video of what is behind the vehicle. I looked up recalls on 2020 Ridgeline, and there are no reports. 2017-19 backup camera recall for similar problem. Honda dealer appointment to confirm is 3 days from today. There were no warning signs of failure.

Backup camera stopped working. Possible electrical wiring harness defective and severed prematurely. This was a safety feature that stopped working on a vehicle that’s not even 3 year old.

Wire harness for back up camera needed to be replaced. Dealer said not covered by current recall, ie 2020's are not covered.

Condition: truck is stopped, the auto engine idle is on action: release the brake to press the accelerator result: the truck fails to restart, shuts off the engine completely, puts itself in neutral, and all the lights in the dash illuminate I have to place the truck in park and restart the engine. Sometimes the engine is difficult to restart, and I have to try several times. This has happened 3 times since November, and 3 other times the truck has almost stalled when restarting.

Several times over the past two months, I started having issues with the auto engine idle stop. I'm at about 25,000 miles and my vehicle has completely stalled out 4 times in two months. This is due to a failure of the auto engine idle stop system to restart the engine after I take my foot off the brake pedal. This has put my safety and others at risk in all of these incidents, all happened in busy, high traffic areas. In one instance it took a full minute to be able to turn my car back on. One time it triggered the collision system, and I couldn't restart my car for several minutes. After looking up this issue, I know there is an ongoing NHTSA investigation into the Honda pilot models, but this needs to be expanded to the ridge line models.

The backup camera stopped working. The wires to the camera broke. This is the same issue as the 2017 - 2019 Ridgeline recall. When will the 2020 models be recalled?.

Beginning about 3 months ago the automatic idle stop (ais) would randomly not function at start-up during the length of a drive though there was no indication of any issue on the dash. Shutting off and restarting would allow usually allow it to function normally. About 6 weeks ago the ais stopped the engine at a red light, and when I removed my foot to accelerate the engine did not start, the car shut off. It took a couple of seconds to realize the vehicle was down, I had to shut the car completely off and restart to get moving almost getting rear-ended since I did not move when the light changed even though my brake lights went off, confusing the driver behind me. Ais failing to start has become more frequent and now happens at least every other day. In traffic this is a safety issue for sure. Additionally, the lkas system randomly displays a new message on the dash that it is disabled for a few seconds while driving on the freeway and then clears itself. Other seemingly related electrical issues started at the same time. On several of the occasions that the ais failed to restart, all dash lights flickered rapidly, and the speedometer needle bounced wildly. After shutting down and restarting the a and b trim computers had been zeroed as well as the mpg average being zeroed, and the economy mode had been switched of. These nuisance electrical issues are not a safety concern themselves but may help point to a common failure which does cause the safety issues of the ais and the lkas systems. I believe you are investigating similar ais issues on the Honda pilot which shares many of the electrical and drive train components with the Ridgeline.