Author Topic: My Honda Fit CVT does not select D when cold (Read 7089 times)

guest3162 · « **on:** March 23, 2012, 08:19:28 AM »

strange one this - any help appreciated

My 2004 Fit CVT (114,000kms) arrived last April from Japan after spending 6 weeks on a ship. I drove it from the port into storage with no problems.

Car remained there until last month. Battery went totally dead.

Once I jumped it the car would not move in D though reverse was fine. Following several movements backwards and forwards of the shifter between D & R the car engaged the gear and drove off with a bad judder.

I replaced the fluid with the correct Honda CVT fluid. This has removed 90% of the judder.

However every morning when car is cold I have to move shifter between R and D 2 or 3 times before it will select D. Whole procedure is never more than 10 seconds. It will then drive normally all day even if parked up for 3 or 4 hours. However once left overnight the problem manifests itself again.

I have brought the car to a couple of Auto Trans specialists here in Dublin but no one has any experience of this box.

Anybody out there help?

guest2765 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 23, 2012, 01:04:09 PM »

ask a local honda dealership? usually they try be as helpful as possible (as long as they think they are getting money out of you). No idea whats wrong unfortunately but phone a honda dealership and ask...you might just get the answers you are looking for

good luck

kotarou · « **Reply #2 on:** March 23, 2012, 02:53:07 PM »

Quote from: theninja on March 23, 2012, 08:19:28 AM

Car remained there until last month. Battery went totally dead.

I Think this might have some influence on your problem, as far as i know the CVT system has a module that you need to recalibrate when this happens. I'm not sure if it's when you change the Oil or battery.

I'll look for this.

caseyjones · « **Reply #3 on:** March 24, 2012, 01:06:47 AM »

I used to have a 2003 SE CVT (now have i-Shift, worse luck..) Anyway, I always used to find that first thing in the morning it would take several seconds for anything to happen after I selected D or R. I put this down to the fluid being cold, and all the fluid having drained out of the various operating circuits overnight. In other words, it took several seconds for the cold fluid to refill the system before the drive would be taken up. I assumed this was normal; it always did it, before and after I replaced the fluid as part of the regular servicing routine. I also changed the battery on the car and it had no effect on the CVT so I don't think your flat battery is a factor. I've never heard of anything needing to be 'recalibrated' on the CVT. Try just waiting a few seconds when you select D or R first thing in the morning, to give the fluid a chance to get round.

guest3162 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 26, 2012, 08:04:15 AM »

Thank you all. I have a feeling that the dead battery might have been the root of the problem so I have left the battery disconnected over the weekend and will reconnect this morning to 'reboot' the system. I will bring it to a Honda dealer and see if they will recalibrate. I will let you know how I get on