# Service bulletin A18\-018

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10133020
- Published by NHTSA: 2018\-04\-16
- Manufacturer's number: A18\-018
- Manufacturer's date: 2018\-03\-16
- NHTSA component: FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM

## NHTSA's summary

Service bulletin \- The customer is unable to insert the fuel nozzle into the filler neck and fuel the vehicle in cold weather. Water or moisture has entered the fueling area and frozen the capless fuel shutter set in the fuel filler neck.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2018/MC-10133020-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2018/MC-10133020-0001.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Fuel system, Fuel injection

## Vehicles listed

- 2016 to 2018 HONDA PILOT
- 2017 to 2018 HONDA RIDGELINE

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [ABOM11242020](/bulletins/10183525.md), 2020-12-02, Service bulletin: FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM:INJECTORS; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING. Dealer Message \- The fuel injectors may not have been manufactured to proper specifications. As a result, debris from the high pressure pump or the fuel injector machining process may cause internal wear or clogging inside one or more injectors. Also, the PCM software may misinterpret sensor inputs as deteriorated catalytic converter.

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