Key won't turn in Honda Pilot - DIY Ignition Fix - Ignition sticking - 2003-2009 Pilot-Odyssey-Acura 

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Update: tiny black cotter pins! One on the bottom of the tumbler that if you just pinch the tip of the cylinder with a pair of channel locks and jimmy it until it will fall out. Then theres another one that actually releases the cylinder from the tumbler itself. That one is harder to get out but i got it with a tiny cylindrical piece of metai had that was a little smaller in diameter, gently set it on top of the cotter pin, and used a small flat head screw driver to pry off rhe cylinder to push it out, took the wafers out, re assembly, and wahlah!!!! Shazam baby!!! Thank you so much for your insight and help! And also with the faith i was praying the whole time!!!

Man, thank you, I really appreciated this video, my key jammed wouldn't turn, I found your video and everyone else was saying about removing them smoothed off bolts, I did exactly what you said, took all the teeth out of the tumbler, I had it put back together and BOOM car started. You are a absolute legend. Thanks mate.

I appreciate your making this video. Along with one other one I was able to get the core out and take the bad pin out. Thank you for the instructions and I want to also appreciate the faith you and your family showed praying that you could get it started while away from home. Thats awesome!

Thank you for making this, my wife and I tackled this project yesterday and it went very well, your video made it possible. Much appreciated

Thank you so much. I got stranded last night but luckily had someone pick me up and was able to fix it in a little over an hour of work with a Phillips, flathead, smaller Phillips, and hammer/nail

You are a saint sir. I had a spring and wafer break and it disabled my car. I was able to fix it following these instructions. Bless you.

So I spent my day doing this. I thought the wheel was locked but nothing would free it up. I didn't have the funds to buy a new ignition AND reprogramming new keys. So I took out the ignition cylinder and sure enough one of the wafers was sticking up. My only mistake was taking the key out and the wafers fell out. I had only planned to remove the one, but ended up having to remove them all. Thanks for this. Never in a million years would I have thought to do this. (Especially on drilling two holes into the ignition cylinder to get the roll pins out). Put it back together and it started up. Part of me is still in disbelief it worked.

I was able to pull this off in about an hour. Thank you so much.

Dude. You are a life-saver. Was stranded and found your video and for it done in just under 2 hours. Thank you!

Thanks for the tutorial! It took me 3+ hours, but only because I had a very hard time getting the gold screw in the back out. If not for going back and forth trying to get that out, I probably would have been done in 1.5 hours or so. Appreciate the guidance!

Dude! You are a life saver! My car has been dead in the water for a few days now. 175k miles on it, I didn't feel like spending $1k to fix it. Took out the wafers and it worked like a charm! Thank you!

Omg Thank u so much for this video I'm homeless living in my Odyssey & had this happen in a parking lot & was stranded,it took me about 4 hours in the heat but this worked & I removed all the wafers tho,this was a dealer only part for around $300 but it only cost me 4 hours of my time! Thank u so much!

Thanks For Your Video It Helped Me Fix The SAME PROBLEM AND I SEARCH EVERYWHERE A YEAR AGO AND COULDN’T FIND ANY VIDEO SUCH AS YOUR THANKS AGAIN MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fix mine from your video. That one screw took me forever to get loose. Saved me 5-6 hundred!!

Thank you, Im about to attempt this in the morning on an 07 civic. She left me stranded for 6 hrs, no tools in the car. last time took about an hour of jiggling and I was on my way. This time we're going total war.

Fantastic video, thank you bro, just saved me a ton of $$$. Up and running in 1.5 hrs...was able to get a dremel cutting wheel on top of those headless bolts and make a flathead groove.

Just repaired mine today! Thank you for sharing this video!!!!! you helped a bunch! God bless you!!!

Well done sir!!! If it wasn't for this video and my nephew's awesome skills it all saved the day!!!

Gracias a la buena explicación de este hombre puede arreglar mi carro y sin gastar ni un dólar, Dios te bendiga

Thanks for posting this video! I was about to spend way too much on my old 2003 Odyssey, and this "free" fix did the job great. I had some challenges getting the cylinder to slide out (it was really stuck for some reason), and the one (of four) gold screws was so difficult to reach (like you mentioned in the video) that I just broke the plastic arm connected to it... 3 other screws are plenty to hold the cover black apparatus in place. I also removed all of the pins. Works great now!

Got it done works perfectly! I removed all the wafers/springs and it starts flawlessly. Thanks for the video...Only thing I had to figure out was removing the cotter pin to release the ignition column.

Thanks for your video. It was good to hear and read that it can work without this small pin inside the lock. My lock is so jammed so i hardly can get the key in, even then the lock is in pieces.

I just did the same thing, don't know why I watched this but I'm glad I did, I like you. You dun earned yourself another subscriber, thanks for trying to help others.

Saved my family so much money. Thank you for the great video.

This video straight up saved my ass!!! My wife daily’s the Pilot and this video really did save us, thank you!

This video just saved me today!!! Thanks so much 👍

My sheer bolts would not come out or turn on my ‘06 CRV. I found out that you can leave them alone and by unscrewing the plastic around the ignition cylinder you can access the pin. The pin holding the lock cylinder to the housing did not want to come out... I drilled 2 holes (one hole in front and one behind the pin) and when all else failed I used a grinder to grind down a pair of needle nose pliers to fit. After many attempts the pen finally was pulled free. What I found out in the process is that you can drill one hole to the right of the pen toward the and then go ahead and drill another hole another hole to the right of that hole and slide remove the lock cylinder with the pen still in the cylinder. Makes it quick and easy. Reason being is that you do not need to use the pen when placing the lock cylinder back. As the cylinder will be held in with the plastic when the 4 screws are placed back and work perfectly... I bought a replacement lock cylinder (with 2 keys) off of Amazon for $18. It worked great. Before I used it, I tried the method in some videos of removing and pulling whatever pen was stuck in the out position and reusing the same cylinder. However I had no luck with that, at all. I’d say try that first cannot hurt, might have better luck. Also I’d say if you can use a chisel or dremel and remove the sheer pens easily then go for it. If you can drill one hole and remove the pin holding the lock cylinder, then try it. Or you can just not fool with any of that drill the holes needed to slide the cylinder out and fix or replace the cylinder and slide it all back in, try the key and then replace the plastic and go on with your day. (At least this is my experience with my CRV). I thought I needed the locking pen (so I took extra time to remove it (just in case), but when I was able to replace the cylinder without reinstalling and have everything work perfectly fine (as if it was installed) I wanted to spread the word. Lastly always best to disconnect the negative battery terminal as you do not want to trigger the airbag by pulling out a connector. Peace. :)

This fixed my issue! Thank you!

Great video…. Working on a 2005 Honda Odyssey, I followed all the steps… you forgot to mention the place pin holding the ignition in place. I did everything exactly how you show it and the key turned and the wheel unlock but it became locked again after I started to hook everything back up, and now I can’t get the ignition to turn over again. I’ll appreciate your help thank u you.

Wow! This video would have came in handy last month. 😭

Finally got the ignition cylinder to come out for my 04 Pilot. There is a small black cotter pin on the backside closer to the dashboard above two screw holes. Helped me to just take the entire assembly off. Screwdriver and hammer to remove the two sheer bolts was easy for me.

You are a life saver, thank you so much for your video!

Dude you just saved my ass with this video, many thanks.

Rock and roll we're back in business

Thank you for this, just saved me a butt load of cash

Hell yeah thx for the tip my father's pilot is doing the same thing. Came out of Wally World aka - walmart it wouldn't start. So thx for the tip I will give it a shot. God Bless U an ur family.

Definitely helpful. I will try this with my 2006 Honda Pilot as it has a faulty ignition switch tumbler preventing the SUV from starting. Thank you very much for the tips/suggestions.

Nice video. I did not know this style pulls right out with key. That little gold screw in the back is a pain...

OMG, thank you so much. You save my life

You're an ungreedy genius, thank you so very much for sharing your experience, you're one of the God send people, that the world needs. You deserved AAAAA. Peace out.

Immensely helpful thank you

Great video but I'll add this.. The only split wafer that should be removed or replaced is the one that was sticking out of the plug. I think the locksmith meant to remove the wafers, BUT then to replace them with new ones. Since one is worn out or damaged, others might start to do the same. The pins (in this case split wafers) in a lock, are what hold the key in the cylinder when it is turned. I used to be a locksmith too. It's those split wafers that are usually the problem. My daughter's car, driver side door lock also couldn't turn. One wafer was the problem. I only took out the wafer that was sticking out and left the others in.

Thank you for this video my brother. 👊👊👊

I love the video thank you so much took all of them out run perfect. Thanks again. Daytona Beach Florida RV

My Honda pilot 2003 started doing the exact same thing!!!

Totally worked!!! Almost was calling a locksmith!!

Brooo wtfk 😂 I did this and worked with no issue 🔥 I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS VIDEO to anyone looking for this help

You unclip that right there, and then move that over there and see that right there.

Having this issue right now. Going to give this a shot before replacing the whole assembly

Great help. Had the same experience, to include praying and it started, but need to fix for the future.

You rock!!! Thank you! I'm going to go try this right now. Even if I want to put it back to new at least I'll be able to drive it to the locksmith instead of getting it towed.

great job . thanks for all the info.

Thank you sir....

I know this is an old video, but hoping someone can help. I managed to get all the screws undone but can’t get the actual cylinder out. Any tips ?

Hey thanks for the video it’s been really helpful I’m just having issues like you said on that last screw in the back, I can’t seem to get it to loosen. Do you have any tips or ideas for getting it out I feel have exaughsted all my ideas. Thanks again!

Thanks for the video. Quick and easy fix. Funny I grew up with vehicles that the key could come out while it was running. So a little nostalgia.

How did the tumbler come out the video left that part out. I can’t get it out

My 2 cents!!!!!!! 1st I want to thank U for this video!!!!!! My story is my 2005 surburban went in the shop the Monday after Christmas. Still waiting for it now smh I have a 2000 Acura tl. Everything was fine until Thursday night I believe it was, my fiancé said the ignition wouldn't turn over. Im thinking I'm going out to wiggle the steering wheel and start it up, nope not this time smh. I messed with it for 2 days still nothing so I found a video and it said the steering wheel lock assembly was bad so I took it off. I was happy to get it off because those 2 screws that hold the assembly to the steering wheel shaft is in an awkward spot and the video I saw the guy used a punch and a hammer to get it out smh I tried that!!! Fuck that get an extractor tool kit and a drill trust me!!!! I had both already so that was a blessing. Anyway I got it out and the bolts came out easier than I thought. So I have the whole assembly out and its Saturday 530pm and the dealership close at 6 and opened again Monday morning. Had to wait until Monday only to call the Honda dealership and Acura dealership for both of them to tell me the part is DISCONTINUED!!!!!! U know how I'm feeling now smh. So Im looking on amazon and ebay and Im not happy with the search bc on ebay they were all used and I didn't want to get a used part and go thru the same thing and on amazon the part number just wouldn't come up for the Acura. The video I saw was a few yrs old but damn this guy had a new part from the dealership smh. Anyway I found this video hold on no wait I called a lock smith Sat night he was talking about 270+ dollars and he acted like he couldn't understand what U was trying to get him to do which was break the lock cylinders. I got that from the comment section of that video. A guy did that but he said it was $100. But anyway they didn't come I called again yesterday and they said they would come around 4 its was 10am then smh so I found this video and I did exactly what U did and I did have a little screw fall out that was more like a pin its gold it has a head like a nail but the bottom part is not threaded and its not long maybe 3 or 4 centimeters if that but it fell out and I couldn't pin point exactly where it came from but its still on the table lol kinda like putting something together and still have screws left over lol whatever it didn't effect anything and I took all if the waffers tumblers or whatever they are ALL out!!!!! Put it back connected it to the car to see if it would turn over and it did. I felt like a master mechanic/ locksmith lol it felt good!!!! Then around 5 pm I get a call from the locksmith and I told him I was good I fixed it and he asked me what did I do and I told him and he said well U did all off the work good job. Thanks again for this video!!! I told my son God gave me hands to work with and a brain to understand all I have to do is put the effort in and this 13 yo son of mines said yea and he gave U a youtube video to look too!!!!! Lmao

The key module I not coming out u said there's something extra to detach in order to pull it out but what is that exactly.

Before remove ignition thambler out do i have to remove some kind pin and what key position

Nice

👍You are awesome. GOD bless you.

Thanks for tutorial! I followed the steps for my Odyssey, and the key turns outside of the car in the housing but once installed it won't turn. Would this be due to something in the ignition cylinder?

What goes in first the spring or the metal piece

Hi! I did this today on my 06 Ridgeline, by removing 1 wafer, but I also experienced problems when putting the ignition/sylinder back in. For some reason the key won't turn, and there are no lights coming on on the dashboard. Sadly, I cannot remove the pin again, since my tools broke while prying it out the first time. Did you ever figure out what the reason was, why the ignition wouldn't turn once you put it back in? I'm suspecting the steering wheel lock, but cannot say for sure.

My previous question is referring to 8:10 time stamp of your video.

Right next to the shifter there is a plug. Pop that off then there is a release button to move the shifter.

Hi. Helpful video. I have a question on removing the pins that is locking the tumbler. You mentioned on your video to use a nail to tap it out. How to do it right ? I tried but the nail is not moving it out. Appreciate for your help.

My key won’t turn and my steering wheel is locked so can’t turn it neither. Would this be a steering lock issue or a tumbler issue?

If the steering wheel is locked before disassembly, will that pose a problem?

Ok I’m going to attempt to do this ... my car just left me stranded thank U Jesus I was already home

Going to try this on my daughter's Pilot. $132 for new.

I have everything up to where i pull yhe tumblers out but it wont come out. I tried using the key to help but no go. Mines a 2008 pilot

How do you unplug the green ones? I'm stuck.

My key won’t go in do you know what can be the problem

Did this. Turns independently but won't turn once I put it back into the assembly. Help 😥

What if the ignition cylinder won’t slide out?

I have everything apart but can’t get the tumbler to slide out of ignition assembly

Hi, i took off the black cover where the keys go in but the cylinder wont slide out, what am I missing?

What is this trick called?

I love how you told your family to pray n then the car started

I'm frustrated. I went through all the steps and removed the one wafer that was stuck. I actually ended up taking out all of the wafers because I want no future problems. I put it all back together and it worked! the ignition turned and I test drove the car. Well now it won't turn again. It's definitely not another wafer because they're all gone. its what's it connects to internally that won't turn and I'm totally stumped. Of course a whole new assembly will fix my problem. But I just can't believe that it worked, and then 10 minutes later a different problem occured? blows my mind

I have a problem the pin that hold it in I drill close to pin now I’m srewed

This was a great video with fantastic advice that worked perfectly. I needed to remove 3 tumbler pins to get back to working order. The one screw was a bear to get to but thankfully just finger tight. Thanks!

Just take the lock cylinder out by pulling the roll pins take the lock cylinder out pull the Fing wafers and tiny springs out put back together. Slapper all back together and never have this problem again. The transponder in the key is the trick to getting it to start anyway so why f with the stupid never ending failing wafers and the key that is constantly wearing.And yes The stearing wheel still locks when you turn it off and pull the key.You can take your key out while its running too which is very convient at times. I put one full rap of black electric tape at the end of the cuts on the key so that the key doesnt fall out of the lock easily. Just did this today and it works like a champ. Sorry locksmith's but this nightmare is BS AND I FOUND THE CURE. Save yourself a tow and 200 bucks buying new keys blah blah

Was your steering wheel lock position befor job

I know this is a bit older of a video. Can you explain how to release the lever for the top cover. I can't get my switch to push in or slide

I did everything as you did but I keep getting the immobilizer light on

Wouldn't a little lube or penetrating oil fix the problem that you had?

It doesn't just come right. There is a roll pin that holds it in. You have to get the roll pin out first

How did you guys get the gold screws out!?? Wtf

I need help!

You conveniently skipped over the first roll pan which is what holds the cylinder in the ignition casing

2011 honda pilot pulled the black plastic off but cannot get the cylinder off help please!!!

Did your car turned on ? I don’t see it on your video

How about you show the video of where you pulled it out. I've tried everything and I can't get mine out. I'm stuck at a ski resort and my car hasn't moves in 2 days.

My cylinder will not pull out. Anyone have any advice? 2004 Honda Pilot. Great video though. Think maybe I just need to keep wiggling the key until something lines up.

I don’t understand how yoj got the key lock cylinder to just come out , mine will not remove that easy

My ignition switch still won’t come out I’m having a hard time getting it out