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Hello. I have a 2007 Honda Odyssey ex with 106,211 miles. I bought the car with around 94k miles on it. The manual says to use the maintenance minder system for timing belt replacement. The maintenance minder for the timing belt has not come on yet and I was wondering why. Is it possible to check the maintenance minder history? What should I do? Thanks.
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I’d call the dealership and just ask them at what millage is the light supposed to come on, then you will know if you have even hit it yet, and if you have I would take it somewhere to get the belt checked to make sure it was replaced.
I will call and see what they say. From my research, the light comes on based on the drivers habits. Some of the forums I’ve read show varying mileages of the light coming on. Also from what I’ve read, the maintenance minder will combine services. Example: Lets say timing belt is due at 100k and oil change is due at 101k. The maintenance minder will light up at 100k for oil change and timing belt service. My previous 2002 Honda Odyssey recommended timing belt service at 105k, and that’s why I was curious. I was unable to find a mileage recommendation formy 2007 Odyssey Ex.
Well, I called the dealer today and he said that the maintenance minder 4 light (for timing belt) usually comes on around 105k miles or so, but he has seen instances where it comes on after 105k miles. He said that as long as I wasn’t going 20-25k miles over the mileage (at the time the light comes on) and wasn’t going below 15 percent then I was ok. I am confused about the percentage because the only percentage on my dash is the oil life percentage. I don’t believe there is a percentage for timing belt, but maybe I was confused. So what I can conclude from this conversation is that there is no set mileage that the light comes on and I should wait for the maintenance minder light to come on. I am not so sure. Your thoughts?
Well, I’m about to do a belt on my Subaru that has 56K on it and the recommended mileage is 105K. The trouble is, the car is 10 years old. When it comes to timing belts, less expensive safe than sorry.
Maybe I will stick with 105k miles. That was the recommendation for my previous Honda Odyssey. But I could find nothing for my 2007 Honda Odyssey EX other than following the maintenance minder.
Ide just go ahead and get it over with. You’re going to have to do it at some point it sounds, so do it now, I wouldn’t rely on a dash light to tell me when to change a timing belt. Agreeing with barn, better now then when something breaks
The maintenance minder system takes your driving habits into account and calculates a maintenance schedule based on that. Honestly, you can go a VERY long time before you need to replace a timing belt on that engine mainly because it uses an automatic tensioner for the belt. Most belts get changed to replace the water pump which may start to leak at higher mileage. This doesn’t often happen with Honda OE parts. I’ve seen pumps last well over 150K without issue.
In summary, I wouldn’t be too concerned the light hasn’t come on. Honda knew what they were doing when they set that system up and you can trust it. However if you want to change it early it won’t hurt. In fact, I have a video on it’s replacement if you’re considering doing it yourself.
Good luck and keep us posted on what you decide to do.
Update. So I have 159k miles and I still haven’t seen the maintenance minder for the timing belt. I can only assume that I missed it somehow. So I went ahead and did a complete timing belt change with water pump, tensioner and idler pulley. A while back at about 135k miles or so I did notice that the auto-tensioner was starting to make noise and recently it was getting very loud. I’ll keep you updated and let you know if the maintenance minder for the timing belt shows up.
Just another update. I’ve got about 206,000 miles on the van now. I finally saw the maintenance minder for the timing belt. It came on a few thousand miles ago around 202,000 miles. I am thinking it may have come on before I bought the vehicle, but I could have missed it to. I was diligently watching for it though.
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