My mom's Pilot finally put the 2 on the odometer last week. She's owned it since 105K. The original owner did all of the 100/105K service before selling (confirmed). It is still the original motor and trans (which I believe is the BVLA?). Steady diet of Maxlife 5W-20 up until 196K, but now she finally sees the light of full syn. No major work done. And let me be the first to say that she drives it HARD. She's somewhat of a leadfoot and is VERY unforgiving of the transmission. She constantly changes throttle unnecessarily (which makes it change gears unnecessarily), and rarely fully stops when switching between P-R-D. To make things worse, it's driven 90% city/10% highway. That said, I can't speak for exactly what was done to the transmission fluid before 105K, but it's only had two drain and fills using DW-1 since. One at about 175K after excessively nagging her to do it, and once at 196K. Both times the magnet was horrendous. The first time was tons of black sludgy clutch material. The second time tons of spiny metal shavings.
I doubt it will go to 300K without major work. She says she's keeping it that long, and it will go that far... she has a bad case of the H disease (All Hondas last 300K+ easily
). Time will tell. I guess it depends how often from here she does drain and fills.
Regardless, I know these transmissions are notorious for being overworked/junk, and thought it was something to be a bit proud of. Now if I can only convince her to change the VTM-4 fluid...
I doubt it will go to 300K without major work. She says she's keeping it that long, and it will go that far... she has a bad case of the H disease (All Hondas last 300K+ easily
Regardless, I know these transmissions are notorious for being overworked/junk, and thought it was something to be a bit proud of. Now if I can only convince her to change the VTM-4 fluid...