So I was on my way to do some scouting pre hunting season. I started the car and it was a hard start. Then suddenly my check engine light would come on and other warning lights like power steering and track loss. I took it in to dealership immediately. They told me I needed to change the crankshaft sensor and entire wire harness. This would be 1600 dollar repair. I was very skeptical about this because I didn’t understand how both things went out at the same time. I talked to the tech who admitted to me that changing out the wire harness is a recommendation Honda makes for these types of problems because it’s difficult to point the actual root cause of the problem. Apparently, this is more common than people think. The tech also told me that the symptoms may not even come back or I could just do the crankshaft sensor and the problem may indeed solve itself by just doing that. So what I basically heard from him was: I don’t really know what the problem is and we want you to spend more money basically re wiring all the connections in hopes we get at the problem. I said no thanks.

I wanted a second opinion. The symptom I had at the time was just some sway in the power steering. I left and the issue cleared itself up. I would get it periodically, but it would reset itself by the next day. It would always begin with a hard start. I didn’t get the second opinion right away because honestly the problem was periodic and would resolve itself quickly. I wasn’t going to fully neglect it. I was just buying some time before I would put the money up to fix it. Work was during its slow season so I wanted to wait a bit. 4 months later I was on the toll road and car loss complete power steering and began to misfire. The symptoms went from mild to extremely unsafe. Luckily, I was able to get off the toll road safely. I will add another post to conclude what happened this time. I never fixed this problem because my second opinion said they couldn’t pin point exactly what the problem was. See other post for conclusion.

This is a conclusion to original start of problem on 11/2022. We are now in March 2023. I went from mild symptoms of the loss of power steering problem to full and complete loss of it and now misfiring. I could not accelerate past 20 mph. I was on the toll road. It was very dangerous and scary to have this problem. I admit that I did pro long getting a second opinion as dealership had already made a recommendation 4 months prior when symptoms were mild. I acknowledge that this was a mistake, but also an advantage to get more insight into root cause. As the symptoms got severe, I immediately scheduled to have the recommended work done even though I was very skeptical about changing out the entire wire harness, but I was willing to just bite the bullet.

Two days later my car would not start at all and I had to miss work because it stranded me at the gas station. I had to get the car towed in to the dealership who said I needed a new starter even though I just replaced it 10k miles ago the previous year. The work was still under warranty and they claimed that the starter going out and the misfiring was completely unrelated. It was a whole separate problem and they wanted to do the original work recommended because the starter was under warranty somewhere else. Mind you the extended warranty they sold got out of covering the recommended work because there was rust supposedly on one of the connections. So they were blaming it on rust which they won’t cover. Some small rust got them to weasel out of paying..What a rip off.

Anyways, I got the starter fixed and paid for additional diagnostic testing by the shop that changed the starter in effort to pin point the root cause of the misfiring and loss of power steering control problem as a second opinion. They could not find anything and did not want to proceed with what the dealership recommended because they stated that it would not be able to guarantee the problem would be fix and thereby would not be able to guarantee the work done. So I was back to square one of not knowing what the problem was but at least the starter was replaced and it ran.

I researched myself and found other people on forums with same problem say that they believe after market starters as root cause because being so close to crankshaft sensor might cause interference in its function. I decided to wait and see if the problem would come back since I got a new starter. If I didn’t have the problem re occur for months then I would conclude that indeed the after market starter was indeed the culprit of crankshaft sensor going faulty. The problem did not re occur for the additional week or so that I had the car after starter was replaced. In fact another problem presented itself with catalytic converter going out. Got two opinions that concluded the same thing. Got an estimate of 2300 to fix with both O2 sensors. That would be a new problem along with 1600 of the supposed wire harness and Crank shaft sensor dealership wants to do that “might” fix the problem. Also would eventually need an original Honda starter or else will mess up now sensor. Plus an ongoing valve cover leak which had to change gasket. So that brings grand total to about $5400 to fully fix my car. Mind you no guarantee changing wire harness would ultimately fix the problem. So what did I do?? I got rid of that freakin car. I have not even started of what dealing with this car cost me in terms of time and employment. I will never buy Honda again trust and believe. Read additional post to find out of about catalytic convertor problem and finally getting rid of car.

Within 2 weeks of buying my new Honda Accord Sport I began experiencing hesitation in acceleration when first starting from a starting position. The problem continued on and progressed, even occurred at freeway speed when trying to pass a vehicle. The issue became concerning when I attempted to cross traffic and my car hesitated which almost resulted in my car getting struck with my family in the car. I voiced my concern with one Southern California Honda dealership and the technician said that he has had a customer on multiple occasions bring in an Accord with the same issues and they have not been able to fix the problem. The technician suggested I contact American Honda to make a complaint because there was nothing he could do to fix the problem and went as far to say that the the problem I am having is a, "CHARACTERISTIC", of the Honda Accord with the continuous variable transmission (CVT). I then discussed the issue with the Service Manager of another Southern California Honda dealership and he told me that a technician that works for him had the same problems with his Honda Accord and that it was a, "CHARACTERISTIC" of the car which they don't have a fix for. I took the car into the dealership where I bought it and after keeping the car for 2 days they said they they could not duplicate problem and said it was a "CHARACTERISTIC" of the car. They said the car is equipped with a safety feature which shuts of the gas when the brake pedal is pressed and that I was probably driving with 2 feet and that I was probably pressing on the brake at the same time I was pressing the accelerator. I have been driving for over 20 years and know that I am not a 2 feet driver. It was kind of insulting for them to suggest I did that after telling them that I do not drive with 2 feet.

Hesitates after a stop or slowing down making a corner. When you accelerate nothing happens for 5 seconds or so. I had a 2014 Accord I got rid of at 3000 mile because of the same thing, it was a 4 cyl CVT. The 2015 is a 6 cyl automatic. I believe it has to due with the traction control as it happens when the wheels are turned making a corner. This has only happened 20 or so times, but with my past experience with the Honda dealer, there is no use taking it back as they wouldn't do anything with the 2014 and it was much worse. Same problem, two different transmissions.