![]() ![]() Oh, and don't forget: Honda is perfectly happy if you find your 2018 CR-Vs infotainment horribly out of date in a couple of years. In at least once case I'm aware of, BMW had to do a safety recall after some bits and bytes they updated and started pushing out, as a customer sat thing for some minor driveability or similar issue, broke a safety compliance function. Like dozens of apps do on your smartphone in a matter of seconds every day. They are probably going to spend $100 a car or so for the campaign and for the dealers to update a handful of flash bits and bytes. Just last week FCA announced a recalled of 4.8M (IIRC) vehicles for a cruise control firmware bug. Software is becoming a major contributor to overall recall numbers. Go look at a random set of NHTSA recall reports. I have some experience in this regard.)Īnd sooner or later all car companies will have to up their software development/deployment game. ![]() (I spent a decade working with a Japanese company customer/partner on a large system development including a scad of software. And it's the way Japan in general does software. But I bet they will still be a decade behind the leading edge. Sooner or later Honda will get where the leading edge car companies are now. Or look at what Tesla is doing where all the code in the car can get updated OTA. They can sell you CarPlay after the fact. When they service your car, they plug it in to Munich and all the backlevel code in all the controllers is identified. When you drive a BMW into the service line, they take your fob and stick it in a reader (NFC? RFC?) and up pops everything there is to know. Some car companies are a decade ahead of Honda in this regard. I'm betting there are more k SLOC in a current Honda than there are all other parts combined. But I suspect many owners with Honda firmware experience will think that sounds familiar. ![]() If they do, we will then need to find out about it-Honda doesn’t want us customers knowing-and then finding out what it supposedly fixes then finding cooperative dealers a) willing to accept the complaint, b) aware of the TSB, and c) willing to put the update on. Their track record in these regards is not great. Honda may or may not ever issue an update for the CR-V infotainment. None volunteer updates in my experience unless Honda has created an all-effected campaign or a recall. So the dealer personnel have to be familiar with the TSBs and willing/caring about customer issues to apply the TSB fix. They discourage actively, and by their warranty claim approval/payment process, dealers from updating any firmware, infotainment or otherwise, unless customer exhibits/can demonstrate they are having one of the issues described in the TSB. Honda issues infotainment updates for cars (prior to the ‘18 Oddity) by issuing TSBs and sending a magic USB thumb drive to the dealers, all of them, for that update. ![]() I've owned my CR-V since March of 2017 so I think it's high time for Honda to get on the ball and push out this update. I've had many of the other problems with the audio system mentioned in other threads on this forum. Unfortunately my advisor couldn't be more specific than this. The technicians could not duplicate the problem, however, I was told an update to the audio system was coming soon. After running a few errands and restarting the car a few times SiriusXM eventually came back on without any input from me. The very next day I had the same problem with the audio system shutting down, only this time I couldn't get it to turn back on. The technicians simply rebooted the system for me and hoped that would resolve the issue. I was told then there are currently no updates to the system, I'm running 1.F193.05. This, along with a few other glitches, caused me to bring it in to the dealer last week. If not then I can turn it back on pressing the volume knob. After a few seconds it might turn itself back on. On occasion the audio system will just turn itself off. I've been experiencing some issues listening to SiriusXM on my 2017 CR-V. ![]()
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