pasadena_commut
10-07-2010, 11:16 AM
Some of you may know this already, but on further research I learned that the "black bar" revision in the 07-049 and 07-050 TSBs which extended them slightly was not the result of a class action suit about the CVT transmission, but rather one about the odometer. The TSB just says "because of a class action settlement", but not what the suit was actually about. I assumed it was about the CVT. Wrong. It turns out that for many years Honda Odometers systematically read about 3.75% high. That is, if 100 Hondas were driven exactly 100K miles and the distribution of odometer readings was plotted the center would have been at about 103.8K. Odometers are normally only good to +-4% anyway. However, the center of that distribution is supposed to be at the correct mileage. This is a minor problem for fuel economy calculations, yet potentially quite expensive on some leases or if something broke at 102K on the odometer when there was a 100K warranty. Here is the pdf, NOT from the Honda techinfo site, so we can still read it:
http://www.skidmore.edu/~pdwyer/e/files/campaign_and_recall_bulletins/a06-085.pdf
No word on whether or not the speedometer on these cars also systematically reads high. It wouldn't be surprising if it did, since the two are usually linked.
http://www.skidmore.edu/~pdwyer/e/files/campaign_and_recall_bulletins/a06-085.pdf
No word on whether or not the speedometer on these cars also systematically reads high. It wouldn't be surprising if it did, since the two are usually linked.