Just come across this forum and joined it having been trying to research about DPFs on the 7th gen. Not had the car long and thought I would share this experience in case anyone else has had the "please say again" issue with their HFT/Sat Nav.
I had a Civic with HFT before the Accord (extremely similar system) and my first and second voice commands would usually not be recognised with the third and onwards being accepted. I could live with this, just about, by saying "gobledegook" for the first couple of times (thereby avoiding the system mistakenly shutting down the A/C or swicthing the default language to German which we both favourite respones that it had) and then giving the correct command the third time around. Speaking to people on the HFT was OK from my perspective but people kept telling me that it was hard to hear what I was saying.
However, the Accord took about 20 attempts between getting commands to work and the HFT was completely unusable because of this. After Googling the issue I read a post by an American chap who had similar problems with a new car and who (I think he was an electronics engineer) asked his dealer to change the mic under warranty to cure the issues. After endless argung with the dealer they changed the whole Sat/Nav unit which didn't cure the issue and only then changed the mic and which did.
On the strength of this I bought a new mic from my local Honda dealer (for arounf £130!) and fitted it (easy 5 minute job) to find the problem totally cured, voice recognition working on first attempts, and people being able to hear me clearly on the HFT.
Recommended fix for anyone else experiencing the same problem.
I had a Civic with HFT before the Accord (extremely similar system) and my first and second voice commands would usually not be recognised with the third and onwards being accepted. I could live with this, just about, by saying "gobledegook" for the first couple of times (thereby avoiding the system mistakenly shutting down the A/C or swicthing the default language to German which we both favourite respones that it had) and then giving the correct command the third time around. Speaking to people on the HFT was OK from my perspective but people kept telling me that it was hard to hear what I was saying.
However, the Accord took about 20 attempts between getting commands to work and the HFT was completely unusable because of this. After Googling the issue I read a post by an American chap who had similar problems with a new car and who (I think he was an electronics engineer) asked his dealer to change the mic under warranty to cure the issues. After endless argung with the dealer they changed the whole Sat/Nav unit which didn't cure the issue and only then changed the mic and which did.
On the strength of this I bought a new mic from my local Honda dealer (for arounf £130!) and fitted it (easy 5 minute job) to find the problem totally cured, voice recognition working on first attempts, and people being able to hear me clearly on the HFT.
Recommended fix for anyone else experiencing the same problem.
knew I'd seen it somewhere on here!
