mooseonbass
Active Member
My 2012 has a little over 20K in and has always run like a top. It usually gets in excess of 70 mpg. Lately, it has been difficult to start, I crank it for a while and eventually it back fires and starts. It seems to run fine but is getting poor mileage. The other day I was doing about 80 on the highway on a windy day and the trip odometer said about 140 miles, I can almost always get another 80 before the last red bar starts flashing. This time, the red bar came on and 5 miles later, I ran out of gas. I limped across 4 lanes of traffic and waited an hour for AAA to bring me some gas. I went another 25 miles and burned almost 1/2 of the 2 gallons they put in. Yesterday, I topped it up with fresh premium gas, added an oz or 2 of Sea Foam and went for a 75 mile ride. It was difficult to start and stalled at a stop sign, which it never does and was hard to start after that. The gas gauge hadn't moved when I got home, so that's good but this morning it wouldn't start. The last time I got poor mileage, there was a mouse nest full of poop and sunflower seed shells in the air box. Suspecting the same thing, I took the filter out (my first time doing it) and the filter was absolutely clean. I put everything back together and contemplated looking at the plugs but read that they should go a lot more than 20K and shouldn't be messed with anyway. So I pushed the starter and it fired right up, no cranking, no backfire, just the old dependable Honda start. Tried it again an hour later, same thing, perfect. My question is, could the wires to the air box sensor have been loose and my putting them back on fixed the problem? Or do you think it will begin misbehaving again. We're having rain all week but I'll try taking it to work on Friday, being sure to have a full tank of fuel, just in case.