I briefly touched on this in another thread - My 10/2018 build date 2018 Accord Sport 2.0T 6MT does not do the gauge sweep/startup. It just turns on I reckon like a car without this would. I've so far asked service advisors and sales associates at two South Florida area dealers and each time they've dismissed me until I came armed with a video from one of many reviews I've seen on the Accord specifically matching my exact specs in terms of year, trim, and transmission, doing the gauge sweep. In the aforementioned thread, a fellow forum member commented that his 18 6MT Accord Sport does the gauge sweep - we did not expand on this further because I didn't want to hijack the thread. Anyway, I'm baffled as to why mine doesn't do it. It's not a deal breaker or as huge a deal as my post might imply, but I was expecting my car to do this, and I can readily produce evidence that other 18 Accords across the spectrum in terms of trim levels and transmissions do it - except for my car. That said, at one of the dealers, where I bought my car, we started two manual 2019/Sport/2.0T 6MT Accords, and they did not do the sweep. At the other dealer, where I just completed recent service, they started 3 automatics and one 2019/Sport/1.5 6MT Accord - the autos did the startup sweep and the manual car did not. I was referred to Honda USA and given a 1-800 number. I don't think I'm going to go that far, but again, I was expecting mine to do this and simply want some sort of answer if it was discontinued from 2018.5 and on or if its something I can enable via some other means (pc hookup). PS - I didn't specifically go into the dealer for this reason, the first dealer was where I bought the car, asked the question there, second dealer is closer to home and we had to get the front defrost vent replaced because it was deformed/missing a clip and figured I'd ask them.
As for what I've done:
There does not seem to be a setting to enable this in the infotainment system. I've connected to WiFi and ensured it was up to date. With a SA, we pulled the battery terminals, we've factory reset the infotainment, etc. I have the permanent tach set so I can view info like MPG and still see the tach. Does anyone have a 6MT Accord that does not do this (2018 or 2019), or does anyone know if Honda removed this altogether from just the manual Accords? I know we don't have the sport button which gives you the compact tach with a boost gauge, but I'm not sure why manual Accords wouldn't do the gauge sweep either. Thanks in advance for reading/replying.
As for what I've done:
There does not seem to be a setting to enable this in the infotainment system. I've connected to WiFi and ensured it was up to date. With a SA, we pulled the battery terminals, we've factory reset the infotainment, etc. I have the permanent tach set so I can view info like MPG and still see the tach. Does anyone have a 6MT Accord that does not do this (2018 or 2019), or does anyone know if Honda removed this altogether from just the manual Accords? I know we don't have the sport button which gives you the compact tach with a boost gauge, but I'm not sure why manual Accords wouldn't do the gauge sweep either. Thanks in advance for reading/replying.