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Honda Pilot 2016technical service bulletin

Bulletin ATS161103 · NHTSA communication 10099126 · issued Nov 17, 2016

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
2016
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

"techline summary article - do you have a vehicle in your shop for any of these issues? When starting up the vehicle, the navigation system position is incorrect. When starting up the vehicle, the audio unit presets are blank (there s no text in the boxes). When playing the audio unit with the neural (surround sound) setting turned on, you hear a noise from the speakers that sounds like a helicopter hovering or a cd skipping."

Vehicles covered

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.