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After reading MANY posts, I find that there are hundreds of incidents of Hondas, especially the 2016-2017 HRVs with leaking water issues coming in from various places into the interiors and making a mess. I bought a 2016 Honda HRV brand new and did not have a water issue until about a year or two ago - can't quite remember when I first noticed it. But it's clearly a problem now and my car has less than 45,000 miles on it.
Ok guys you can laugh at me, but initially when I heard a liquid sloshing around I thought "hmmm why am I hearing this gasoline sloshing around in the fuel tank now?" It wasn't logical, but that's what I thought it must be. THEN, this year, I started smelling a mildew odor and the light went on in my head. I typically drove the car with the back seats down flat because I have 2 large dogs who are in the car from time to time. So, this past week, I got into the rear of the car and found about 2 inches of water in the spare tire well and the floor mats in the back seat were soaking wet. Nothing was leaking from the roof or sunroof that I could see. But mildew had started growing on the leather seats because they were down flat and capturing lots of moisture. So, I've now cleaned it all up, but it rained last night and sure enough, when I checked the spare tire well and back seat floor this morning, they were both wet again and about an inch of water had pooled in the spare tire well. This happened when the car was parked. One more thing to consider - when I park my car, I don't always put it in the garage on a flat surface, but typically back it into my driveway which slants downhill. So I am wondering, am I seeing this water toward the back of my car for that reason? So many other posts indicate the water is in the front of the car or even ceiling area.
WHEREVER these leaks are coming from, they are unacceptable in my opinion. There are SOOOOO many posts on the Honda Forum sites about water leaks that I believe this matter should have generated a recall on the part of Honda to find the source of these leaks and correct the problems. We bought cars not boats!!
I live in Pennsylvania and have patronized Scott Honda in West Chester PA which has been an exemplary dealer. Over the years, I have purchased 5 Hondas from them. I called them this morning and inquired about water leak problems specifically in the HRVs. They denied any knowledge of this being a problem. Hard to believe after reading all those posts. HOWEVER, I am due for an oil change soon and they advised me to make my appointment on a Tu or Th because that is when they deal with "water leaks." Hello???? Say what?? It was said just like it was another type of service - your water leak problem!! My problem???!!!
SO it seems to me that Honda is not owning up to very poor quality control in some if not all of their cars. Someone on a post mentioned poor workmanship that takes place at the Mexican assembly plants. I just don't know. In any case, does anyone know why there has not been a class action lawsuit against Honda about this? Clearly, Honda has a water leakage problem in MANY of their cars.
I have decided this will be my last Honda. But now I have to worry about how to correct this problem and unload this car when it's a bad time to be buying a car in this inflationary environment, spend more money than I want to spend for another car that is a car and not a boat. Very annoying and I'm very annoyed.
After reading MANY posts, I find that there are hundreds of incidents of Hondas, especially the 2016-2017 HRVs with leaking water issues coming in from various places into the interiors and making a mess. I bought a 2016 Honda HRV brand new and did not have a water issue until about a year or two ago - can't quite remember when I first noticed it. But it's clearly a problem now and my car has less than 45,000 miles on it.
Ok guys you can laugh at me, but initially when I heard a liquid sloshing around I thought "hmmm why am I hearing this gasoline sloshing around in the fuel tank now?" It wasn't logical, but that's what I thought it must be. THEN, this year, I started smelling a mildew odor and the light went on in my head. I typically drove the car with the back seats down flat because I have 2 large dogs who are in the car from time to time. So, this past week, I got into the rear of the car and found about 2 inches of water in the spare tire well and the floor mats in the back seat were soaking wet. Nothing was leaking from the roof or sunroof that I could see. But mildew had started growing on the leather seats because they were down flat and capturing lots of moisture. So, I've now cleaned it all up, but it rained last night and sure enough, when I checked the spare tire well and back seat floor this morning, they were both wet again and about an inch of water had pooled in the spare tire well. This happened when the car was parked. One more thing to consider - when I park my car, I don't always put it in the garage on a flat surface, but typically back it into my driveway which slants downhill. So I am wondering, am I seeing this water toward the back of my car for that reason? So many other posts indicate the water is in the front of the car or even ceiling area.
WHEREVER these leaks are coming from, they are unacceptable in my opinion. There are SOOOOO many posts on the Honda Forum sites about water leaks that I believe this matter should have generated a recall on the part of Honda to find the source of these leaks and correct the problems. We bought cars not boats!!
I live in Pennsylvania and have patronized Scott Honda in West Chester PA which has been an exemplary dealer. Over the years, I have purchased 5 Hondas from them. I called them this morning and inquired about water leak problems specifically in the HRVs. They denied any knowledge of this being a problem. Hard to believe after reading all those posts. HOWEVER, I am due for an oil change soon and they advised me to make my appointment on a Tu or Th because that is when they deal with "water leaks." Hello???? Say what?? It was said just like it was another type of service - your water leak problem!! My problem???!!!
SO it seems to me that Honda is not owning up to very poor quality control in some if not all of their cars. Someone on a post mentioned poor workmanship that takes place at the Mexican assembly plants. I just don't know. In any case, does anyone know why there has not been a class action lawsuit against Honda about this? Clearly, Honda has a water leakage problem in MANY of their cars.
I have decided this will be my last Honda. But now I have to worry about how to correct this problem and unload this car when it's a bad time to be buying a car in this inflationary environment, spend more money than I want to spend for another car that is a car and not a boat. Very annoying and I'm very annoyed.
