[cccbock]

Hi Alan. I'm assuming your truck did not come with an owner's manual. You might try to find one, it covers all this Maintenance Minder stuff.

Yes the place where you are seeing 50% is where the maintenance codes will appear, however, the codes will not say "timing belt", they will be numbers and or letters which you look up in your manual...one of those is for timing belt. Most of us use the number 105000 miles as the time to change the TB. But we recently had someone post they went well past 200K miles prior to changing it. So it is not an emergency right now if it was not done by the prior owner. If other things on the truck looked poorly maintained, I would be a little more worried

A Honda dealer can look up your VIN to see if any other dealer logged the TB service for your truck. Otherwise you have a guessing game. On a truck of this age and miles, I might be tempted to stay with "if aint broke don't fix it". Your other option is to pay somebody to inspect the TB. There is also a water pump and a tensioner that most people change when the front of the motor is open. If it has the old parts, it probably has the old TB.

Otherwise the MM tells you when to do oil changes, change spark plugs, and rotate tires, that kind of stuff, if you have the codes available. We can help you interpret the codes when they appear, but it would be better to have your own manual.

 

[cccbock]

Hi cccbock,

Thanks for your response. I do have the manual and have read what it says about the MM. From the description just wasn't clear to me where the codes would appear. I was expecting a SERVICE screen to come up with codes showing what is due, but no SERVICE screen comes up as I press Select repeatedly. So I wasn't sure if I was looking in the right place.

So if I understand you right... If the timing belt was due for replacement, there would be a SERVICE screen in the sequence showing code 4. Correct?

The manual explains how to reset the oil change alert, but I don't see anything about resetting the other codes. So I am guessing that only the dealer can reset those. That leads me to believe that the timing belt has indeed been replaced at some point in the past, as well as the other items implicated by a code 4. Am I understanding that right?

I have a carfax report that lists the dealer maintenance done regularly since this vehicle was new. None of the entries mentions the timing belt. I'm thinking about calling those dealers to see if they have any record of replacing the timing belt on this vehicle.

Unless the system is not functioning, you will only get service notifications when the MM thinks it is time for a particular service interval which are mileage based. Otherwise your screen will only show your total mileage, trip miles, outdoor temp, etc. It is likely the TB code (if it is 4, I dont know without looking at my manual) did in fact fire back around 105k miles, and the owner or dealer reset it. We don't know if the service was actually done, the MM relies on the human input to reset it.