My 2015 Honda Fit has been trouble free for more than 18000 until today....
leaving the parking lot of Lowe's Home Improvement it "bucked" and stumbled and nearly all the warning lights came on. I limped in a mile down the road with no power and no ability to rev the engine above 2,000 rpms to the local Honda dealership which is where I am now......ANY GUESSES.
BTW it's a 6 speed manual EX

 

could be as simple as a loose battery cable.. intermittent.

 

Fuel pump....OEM $500! OUCH!

 

Interesting question: what kind of gas were you pumping?

 

this is why u need your own odb scanner, so you know what the problem is before the dealer tells u what they feel like telling you.

 

so true.. chances are, its not the fuel pump.

 

I try to buy Chevron when ever possible....occasionally a few liters of Pemex as I split my time between Arizona and Rosarito Beach Mexico

 

YUP...... good idea
..next time

 

Fuel pumps either work or they don't. My two cents. I'm surprised at this diagnosis.

I would guess a sensor - which one hard to tell without a scanner. Maybe a vacuum leak although those have become very rare since fewer parts of the car rely on vacuum. Car's behavior is just a "limp home" mode and could be triggered by lots of things.

 

Totally pointless to speculate with so little information. It could be anything from a squirrel chewing on your wiring to an unhappy girlfriend pouring a quart of water into your gas tank. I'd agree that not a fuel pump - those things seem to rarely fail on any car. Let us know what happens.

 

The car can actually self-diagnose a bad fuel pump? Cool! Is the ODB info coded or can regular people understand the report?

 

Same thing happened to me on my 2015 EX manual.


Reset the fault with code reader if you can. Otherwise Honda will have to do it. Hit the road to see if it repeats. It is not a fuel pump problem but a Honda Software problem with the traction control. If you hit a bump just right on a wet street and release gas pedal it will trip and go into limp mode. I know because it happened to me. Just as I hit a small dip in the rain and I released the pedal it triggered limp mode. Pulled battery cable for 2 hours and it did not reset. Drove to dealer in limp mode and they had to reset it. Said they checked fuel pump but pressure was fine. They do not realize they have a problem. I now know how I have to drive to prevent this problem. Do not know if a code reader can reset this. Honda said they have a special unit to do the reset. If it does happen again will go to Autozone and tell them If their code reader will reset it I will buy it. They keep my Fit all day and returned it late just before they closed so could not talk to mechanic. Also strange no paperwork or anything from Dealer on the work they did. This was second time they have worked on car under warranty and just handed me the keys with no paperwork on the fix.



James

 

No, it cannot diag the in-tank fuel pump.

The DI high pressure pump does have one monitored component in it the computer can 'diag', but that's it.


If you pull over, shut it off, wait a few seconds, then restart it, it may run and drive fairly normally until the fault happens again.

 

Which fuel pump did they replace? the high pressure one or the low pressure one?

 

dealer's like oh dere's 2?


lol

 

That's the people you talk to on the phone or at the service desk.



Hopefully more than half the people in the shop know better, or can at least look up correct information and put it to good use.

 

18000 Miles- That's still under warranty. Let them start replacing what parts they want.

 

might be okay for a retired old fart picking his nose all day but a lot us work and need our cars. no time to deal with BS.

 

..but den again, i wouldnt be retired with a GK to start.

 

This old fart is retired & is flicking boogers your way Ken. LOL ;-)