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forget the oil monitor system if I'm not mistaken works from in the oil pan, not the oil filter.
I just purchased my very first Accord. All my friends tell me to do the first oil change at 3,000 miles, some even recommend doing one at 1,500 miles.
Should I really wait 1 year or when there is only 15% oil life left? Isn't that kind of dangerous waiting that long to do your first oil change?
As much as car companies advertise long intervals, dealers insist coming in earlier is necessary, as that is just one more source of income. My local dealer used to continue putting the 3,000 mile sticker in my car, despite the fact that I used the maintenance minder. I just threw it away, since I had my records of when my last oil change took place, should I want to see how far I'd been since the previous one.
Especially important to those of your with navi systems
http://www.alldata.com/TSB/24/082401aE.html
TSB Number & Issue Date TSB Title
05-032 JAN 08 Navigation System - DVD Information and Inspection
07-007 NOV 07 Tire Monitor System - Warning Lamp ON/Pressures OK
99-082 NOV 07 Navigation System - Warranty Exchange/Repair 07-054 OCT 07 Navigation System - Setup and Operation Information
06-072 OCT 07 Tire Monitor System - Usage of TPMS Sensor Tools
07-030 OCT 07 A/C - Refrigerant Leak Detection
06-068 OCT 07 Steering - Vehicle Pulls/Drifts to the Left/Right
07-044 AUG 07 Body - 2008 Paint Codes
No need to subscribe - get them from your Honda dealer
TSB Number & Issue Date TSB Title
07-057 SEP 07 Campaign - PCM Software Update for Low Power on Accel
This website was cited int he NY Times today. You are looking at the wrong website - it onlly reports defects and recalls - this site reports TSBs. Sorry but you are incorrect.
There are some of us who appreciate things like that, keep them coming, I'm curious what those issues were under those Honda TSB numbers.
Unfortunately, this website charges $25 for info on these TSBs, so they may be taking advantage of people who think these TSBs represent problems and will pony up the money for information of questionable value. As ljgbjg said, you can call the dealer to find out what these TSBs are for.
But don't assume a TSB means there is a problem with the car. Most TSBs won't result in a communication with the customer for valid reasons. There is a difference between a recall and a TSB.
Just a heads up for everyone to be aware of. Go ahead and do a search on this site for virtually any car, and you will find 20 or 30 TSBs, most of them very routine or benign.
Several times I have located a list of TSB's on the web. I'll have to find that link again and get back to y'all!
Don't ever assume a SB is not a problem it could be something leading up to a major problem. So getting info from other people in a thread is important wether it's valid or not your research into it a statement will determine that, at least you were made aware of something.
But it's also true that these are bulletins for the dealerships so they know how to resolve issues that have been reported by some number of customers. A TSB for any given issue on any given car does not mean that every vehicle will have the issue the the TSB addresses. It just means that if a customer comes in saying I have these symptoms, the dealership doesn't have to reinvent the wheel in order to to address them.
Now can we please move on? We've pretty much beaten this to death now.
And again, we do appreciate the list ljgbjg provided.
Hope that is clearer.
It's time for a new development or real story out there on the Accord, so we can talk about something new and different for once!
Lastly but no least, the owner's manual says this car is supposed to have an 18.5 fuel tank capacity. I say it is wrong. I have always filled my car's gas tank to the rim and in each car I've owned since 1970, the total capacity stated in the owner's manual matched when filled to the rim. But not this 08 accord. I've put in 19 gallons several times. Other times, I've put in almost 21 gallons. And these amounts were at different gas stations. At first, I thought that the gas pumps might be off so I checked their certifications and the pumps showed correctly. I also had one of the guys that works at the weights-and-measures for the state watch me fill up my car to almost 21 gallons and they could not find any leakage or spillage on my vehicle or the pump itself and told me that the capacity shown in the owner's manual must be wrong. They have predicted that my actual tank capacity is around 22.5 gallons. Again, Honda has laughed at my findings and will not certify the tank.
I'm sure the host will guide you there, but there is a dedicated forum that already exists for 2008 Honda Accord Maintenance and Repair.
The tank's neck will hold less than a gallon. My previous 04 Accord w/v6 had a 17.1 gallon capacity and I did fill it to the neck everytime I gassed up. The 04 accord's fuel light lit up when there was about 1/2 gallon in the tank...about 10-15 miles. It came on one time and I drove about 8 more miles then filled up to the rim on that 04 accord and the total amount was 16.7 gallons which told me that I was running on fumes.
Oh well, you don't have the car anymore, so it doesn't matter.
My 03 V6 low fuel light comes on way before that. :surprise: I usually drive at least 10 miles after the light comes on (could go 30 easy). The gas pump will rarely get to 14 gallons when I fill up. If the tank is really 17.1 gallons I would still have over 3 gallons left. The low fuel light will come on when the needle gets between 1/4 tank, and where the red area starts, so that looks about right to me.
The service manager at the dealership where I bought my 08 accord says there is no way the gas tank could be a 22 gallon tank. He says there is not enough room. I say there is enough room. Based on the circumference of the tank itself, in order to get another 4 gallons in my car, the tank would only have to be about 1/2" bigger.
I'm scheduling a service call on this accord at a dealership other than where I bought it. I cannot and do not trust the service dept where I bought the car. They've lied to me on more than 1 occasion and they know that I know that they lied. The service manager himself looked me right into my eyes and lied one time. What a clown! I marked the backside part of my tires with chalk..the part of the tire that faces the undercarriage. The markings said rr, rf, lr, and lf so I could tell if they rotated my tires. My car was being serviced and the service manager said my tires were rotated too. I then told the service manager what I had done prior to pulling my car into the dealership and then I got him to look under the car at the tire markings. They were still in the same location as when I took the car in for servicing. That was the 1st time but definitely not the last time that I caught him in an outright lie.
Mrbill
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I've talked to mechanics about this and they've never told me it was bad for the car or the system and they never told me to quit doing it. It is just hype. If it were such a problem and if it caused as many problems as some people claim, then why hasn't there ever been a public service announcement or a tv commercial or some warning for everyone to see perhaps on a billboard alongside a busy highway explaining the hazards/problems of tank overfill? To me, I am not overfilling it. I am filling it to its true capacity. That is why I want to know the real capacity of my gas tank. Whatever Honda and all other manufacturers state in their owners manuals should be correct and if not, they should be willing to provide gas tank certification tests to show their figures are correctly stated.
It has been for me. What you want is the total of the gas tank and the filler neck. Most people don't care to fill it to overflowing, so the "TANK" capacity is listed.
Personally, I don't understand wanting to run the risk of ruining the evap canister located near the top of the filler neck. What's it going to save you, an extra 20 miles between fillups?
To each is own, I won't do it.
Mrbill
I also have noticed that my drivers side power seat skips when adjusted front to back on it's track. I will have this checked when I bring my car in for it's first service.
The brakes still squeek as they have since the first day I bought the car in January and now I've driven about 6,000 miles and when applying the brake lightly it always squeeks just a little bit.
George Kaye
I know hondas always had that clunk, I know from my previous '00 and '04 accords, but not as loud as this one.
Has anyone else had this experience?
The car will not do this again until after I park it again for more than half day.
Sometimes it won't make the sound, but lately, its been clunking more and more.
I am afraid I may have a transmission problem on my hands, b/c I don't have warranty on my car.
I will also say again...I've been filling my tank to the rim since I got my first car in 1970. My parents have always done the same thing and so have my brother, sister, other relatives, and lots of friends all over the United States. I don't consider myself to be overfilling anything. If the tank were truly overfilled then gasoline would be/could be sloshing out onto the ground or other car parts. But I've looked all over my car and all over the other cars too when they're filled to my capacity and have yet to see any signs of leakage or other problems. I've never had any check-engine lights to come on as well. If filling the tank to my capacity were so dangerous/risky as you claim, then why hasn't the car manufacturers or the government or others fixed all gas tanks so that they can hold only a certain amount and never ever be filled the its fullest capacity?
I took my car to the dealership yesterday and told them I was having performance issues. With all the information they can receive through their readouts, they should have told me that there were problems such as the canister evap or other problems associated with your so-called overfill but no problems were found. I told the mechanic and the service manager that the car had a full tank of gas and then further explained to them that I filled the tank to the rim at all times and you know what they said to me about my filling to capacity? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! I told them there were several people that claimed to have issues with filling to capacity and they informed me the issues were in their minds and that these new cars..the cars of today...are so drive-by-wire that IF filling to the rim were such a big problem as some claim, then the car's drive-by-wire system would sense a problem and report it accordingly either through a warning light or perhaps a readout on the computer when hooked up to it at any dealership.
Always set the brake.