The Honda Stepwagon / Stepwgn Owners Club

Brian - sorry it took me a while to catch up with your Stepwagon Trials! You seem to have a Friday vehicle as the problems seem to be arriving like buses!

I guess the risk of a grey import is exactly what you are experiencing - there are no detailed service manuals in English for these as you have found out so the best approach might be using a car electrics specialist - does your stepwagon have a plug in diagnosis connection? I would expect one and it is likely to have standard OBD II codes to show what is wrong. (see here: http://www.obd-codes.com/trouble_codes/honda/) However diagnosis and cure are different animals!
As I guess you know, finding electrical faults takes time and can therefore be costly. A lot comes back to the car mechanic and the best ones are probably not at the Honda dealer but some back street car specialist. Can't advise where to find one in your area though.

I hope you turn the corner soon and get back to enjoying Japan's secret mid sized van!

Lewis

Hi Lewis

Although the garage I used didn't manage to fix all the problems, I'm sure they spent a lot more time than the 2.5 hours they charged me for.

I'm old enough to remember cars without aircon and intermittent wipe and can easily manage without them, but what I can't put up with is the latest problem of the carpet becoming soaked when it rains. I think that will be one for Wellhouse to sort out when its next service is due. I won't be using it much until next spring so I'll keep it under cover until then.

Best wishes to you and your family for Christmas & New Year.

Brian

Sounds like a good plan Brian - ours is still in use though as it is the family transport! probably off to Carlisle over the Christmas holiday as long as the snow does not stop us!

Thanks for the Christmas greetings - I hope you and yours have a peaceful and enjoyable Christmastime too.

Lewis

Brian, interesting stories
Is your Stepwagon a camper conversion? If so could this have lead to a few of the problems such a sthe water ingress?
I'm looking into buying an unconverted wagon and hope I have better luck than you seem to be having
Good luck with getting it all sorted.

Hi

Yes, mine is a camper conversion.

I never did sort out the water ingress properly. On my RF3 the roof has a plastic trim along the sides which isn't sealed to the metal roof so the water draining off the roof goes under the trim. I didn't want to take the trim off and break it or find I couldn't refit it so, to test if this was the source of the water ingress, 12 months ago I put a length of Unibond repair tape along the length of the roof to seal the gap and it's been ok since. Emergency over, I've not got around to fixing it properly.

Brian