Originally Posted by
bsheff
All right. Enough is enough. Honda now wants us to believe that every rodent has now become aware that a Honda Pilot or some Odysseys are a great place to hang out, especially right next to the knock sensor wire harness. I find it amusing how all of those little varmints must have their own laptops and communicate with each other that this is the best place to be and also the best tasting part of the vehicle. What a joke. We took our 2003 Pilot in and they charged us $450 dollars ($4.33 for the part) The rest of it was labor. It took the mechanic exactly 50 minutes to do the work. We watched and got charged for the 3.5 hours labor. There obviously need to be a recall here!!!!!!!
Believe it or not it's quite common. That harness is directly over the hot water passage pipe in the "V" of the engine. The rodents like to hang out on this pipe cause it's warm and ALWAYS build nests there. Once I replaced the same harness three times in one week on a Pilot on the third time we saw the rodent in the passage and he jumped out of the engine compartment and my partner whacked it to death with a large prybar. Problem solved!
Honda has an updated harness that has pepper inpregnanted tape that is wrapped around the harness which is suppose to stop it. It's gray and has a picture of a mouse on it with a circle with a line through it. I've replaced those harnesses too though but not as much as the original ones. 3.5 hours seems excessive to me, some dealerships let the advisors make the time up as they go along. I never have got more than 2 hours for the job. I always take the PS pump off and get the token asian guy in the shop to squeeze his hand through the hole and unplug it for me. Works every time.
