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Has anyone had this problem before? I was going home one night and when I went to turn left off the main highway route my car just lost power. The check engine light, vsa and the (!) Light turned on. 😲 Gave me the chills. I was capable of pressing the accelerator pedal and the car was giving minimal power. I stopped on the side street and just stared at my dash in shock thinking it was something major. I turned off the car pulled out the key waited a couple minutes opened the hood and looked everything was fine (no leaks) and got back in turned it on. Check engine was on but I was able to proceed going home. When I got to my drive way car lost power again and the vsa and (!) Joined the check engine that was still illuminated. I got my scanner later on in the day and check the car for codes. Code p2138 was recorded in the system. So the next day I took some time to research this to see if anyone had ever had this problem. To my surprise on the nhtsa.gov website American Honda Motor company has had a couple reports of this problem and are "researching" this problem of 3g TL since 2012 or 2013. I just keep thinking of the fact when I owned a Toyota I had one of those cars with the sticky pedal recall. Toyota covered it up for so long till a couple deaths and accidents happened. Nhtsa fined Toyota for covering up this problem 1.2billion.
So you guy's just replace them? No one ever complains. If you had this problem please submit a complaint on the nhtsa.gov website please. This part should not fail and then the next day not have a single problem. This is very dangerous and can fail at any moment and honda/acura is covering this up. This calls for a recall. Please take couple minutes and submit a complaint on the nhtsa.gov website. Thank you!
Covering it up? It is a part that ages out and fails. Why would we report it? You realize there are all kinds of parts to the car that can fail at any moment and make the car dangerous right? Do you submit a complaint when a coil pack fails? Or a starter or alternator fails? No, you just suck it up and replace and it.
What makes this different than the Toyota issue is that most of the Honda failures are they go into fail-safe mode instead of full-throttle mode. Also on the Toyota one...it was super uber duper common....even on fairly new cars. I don't think the issue with the Honda part is super uber duper common...just somewhat common.
