How To Reset Oil Life/Maintenance Light On New Honda Pilot

Last Updated on January 19, 2024 by Nick

The Honda Pilot is an all-terrain vehicle of the F segment produced by the Japanese manufacturer Honda Motor Co., Ltd. since mid-2001. So today, I want to talk about resetting the oil life or maintenance light on a Honda Pilot.

If your vehicle has maintenance items due within 30 days, the Maintenance Due message will appear on display. The system must be reset after performing the maintenance service on your vehicle. So let me show you how to do it.

2016-2018 Honda Pilot Oil Life Reset Procedure

Resetting Maintenance Light On New Honda Pilot (2019-2022)

So here we have a 2019 Honda Pilot, and we just did an oil change, so we’re going to reset this oil life light. The A1 maintenance is the one that comes up, so the first thing you do is:

• Turn on the car without starting it
• Press the HOME button to bring you to the main menu

• Then you need to scroll down to the MAINTENANCE
• Press ENTER button to select the menu
• Select OIL LIFE
• Press and hold the ENTER button until the display changes to reset mode
• Select the maintenance item you want to reset, or you can also select All Due Items

How To Reset With Touchscreen

In addition to using the method above, you can also reset the maintenance lights through the navigation screen or audio display. Follow the procedure below if your Honda Pilot is equipped with an audio touchscreen.

• Turn on the car
• Press the HOME button on the audio screen
• Tap the SETTINGS menu on the touch screen

• Tap VEHICLE menu
• Scroll down and select MAINTENANCE INFO
• Tap RESET
• When a confirmation message appears, select Reset to confirm

2023-2024 Honda Pilot Maintenance Reset

In the 2023 to 2024 Honda Pilot, you can reset the maintenance minder through the cluster and center screen. Some different button and cluster layouts are depending on your vehicle trim level but the menu is the same. So let me teach you right now.

1. Hit the Start button twice without depressing the brake pedal
2. Click the home button to get the main menu
3. Use the selector wheel to scroll until we get to the maintenance menu and then press the wheel to enter
4. Once you see the Oil Life on the screen, press and hold the selector wheel for about 10 seconds to enter the reset mode
5. Scroll once again until you get to all due items, and then click on it to reset the oil life

With Audio Display

As an alternate method, you can also reset the Maintenance Minder display using the audio screen. So let’s do it.

1. Press the home button to get the main menu
2. Scroll to the right and you want to find vehicle settings menu.
3. Scroll to the right again and find the maintenance information and tap on that.
4. Tap on select reset items
5. At this point you can either choose all due items or just oil and filter and when a confirmation message appears select reset and you’re done.

For your info, this operation work for the third generation of the Honda Pilot (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 model years). For the older model, you can reach it here.

What is a Honda maintenance code?

In this section, I will show you how to interpret the codes on your Honda vehicle. This is called a maintenance minder, and it keeps track of your maintenance information for you. And I think it’s a really valuable tool. Some people probably think that’s not very pleasant, but I like it actually.

For example, when I turn on my dash lights here, it says my oil life is down to 5%, and it’s giving us a code for B1. That is going to indicate the things that we need to do. So let’s look at the book and see what that says below here:

Your owner’s manual will tell you exactly what these things mean. So the B code means we need to replace the engine oil and oil filter, inspect front and rear brakes, check parking brake adjustment and then inspect all of the items not going to read through those. Then 1 code is for rotating the tires. So since we’re going to be checking out the brakes and stuff, it’s the perfect time to check the tires. 

FAQ – Honda Pilot Oil Service

Conclusion

So anyway, that’s the main thing, though, when you get those indicated on your car. The little wrench will show up on the dash, giving you a code, and you can interpret it by going into your owner’s manual and showing you exactly what you need to do.

So that’s it. The oil changes are one of the simplest things anybody can do and probably the most critical thing they can do to make a car last as long as possible. So make sure you change your engine oil before resetting the maintenance system. Thanks for stopping by and have a great time.