I suddenly started seeing the following message right next to the FM indicator on the touch screen "Mecha error". I have a usb cable plugged in to the driver side port WITHOUT any phone connected. I have a usb stick on the passenger side usb port. I disconnected both and I still the message. Any ideas what it could be?
You have to eject the CD in your CD player and try again. What? Your Clarity didn't come with a CD player? I googled your error and found it mentioned on an Odyssey forum and on an Acura TSX forum as a mechanical problem with the CD player. Perhaps it's some left-over, orphan CD code Honda didn't remove from the software for their infotainment system. Try rebooting the infotainment system by holding down the on/off button at the top-left of the display. Then try a different CD.
Don't plug a Mecha into the USB port. It does this EVERY time!!! Are you using genuine Honda USB cable and drives?? Sent from my SM-N960U using Inside EVs mobile app
I guess no one else is seeing this error then. Wondering if the head unit needs replacement. Everything still works so I am hesitant to call the dealer. I may just wait for my regular appointment with the dealer.
I did just now and it worked! I don't see that pesky error message. Thank you. one thing i noticed is that it is not listing the source on the top line, like FM, USB etc right next to the left of the driver side temperature display. Somehow I remember it used to display that.
it is related to the Macca error which can occur when you attempt to play Paul McCartney songs, especially the early Wings years.
No. Those are just Silly Love Songs that you are required to listen to so when you visit a casino, with your Band on the Run, so that you can win, With a Little Luck. Sent from my SM-N960U using Inside EVs mobile app
Those are pretty good 1970's songs I don't think they generate the error. I was referring to some of his 1980's albums which can actually make the infotainment system seize up and have to be rebooted.
Y’all are killing me. I’m laughing so much I can’t catch my breath. There’s no other forum that entertains so while enlightening me like this one. So in that vein I submit a history of the lowly Mecha... My Google-Fu tells me that Mechas are an ill conceived laboratory hybrid of the Gremlin (genus Hollywoodus ) and the Nauga (genus Furniturus) created by expat Nazis in Argentina in the mid 50s. Gremlins were first described in 1954 when Nash-Kelvinator and the the Hudson Motor Car company merged to become American Motors Corporation. They were thought to be eradicated as pests after inspiring the Gremlin automobile (also ill conceived) but documents recovered from the demise of AMC show a missing Jeep CJ-7 was abandoned in Hollywood with traces of Gremlin scat in the mid 80s. It is alleged by the tinfoil hat crowd that Steven Spielberg still keeps a breeding colony of them but none have been seen in the wild since their 1984 movie. Naugas were first described in 1936 by B.A. Hunter of the American Rubber Company (now Uniroyal). They are thought to be native to Sumatra since the domestic species was first captured at rubber plantations there. Uniroyal chemists soon discovered their hides were rich in PVC and began harvesting them to make Naugahyde furniture. Due to their small size that requires hundreds for just one sofa, and the Naugahyde craze of the 70s attributed to Ricardo Montalban’ calling them “like fine Corinthian leather”, they were hunted to near extinction. Currently they are only know to exist on Uniroyal’s farms in England. As a side note, their gigantic marine cousins have been hunted to complete extinction by Japanese whalers due to the once lucrative trade in their oil that was high in PVC used to make plastic DWV pipe and their demise has been blamed on rising PVC pipe costs. As can well be imagined by the above, Mechas have inherited a nasty temper and fondness for automobiles from the Gremlin side and a hatred for humans from the Nauga side. As a result they are known to infest and reek havoc on any automobile they come across. The Nauga: The Gremlin The Mecha has never been photographed but one Honda Clarity owner claimed to have seen one in 2019.
Mecha error... I was sitting at work, out of country, and it occurred to me that I had not posted in a while nor contributed anything useful to the forum. I know that sometime a post will ask for solutions that exist in other threads, but due to the distance in the "theme" never catch up. Since this is an "infotainment" error I wanted to connect two posts regarding an owner's ability to completely reset to factory a headunit. This post comes with lots of warnings, and I will give the usual XDA disclaimer that if you brick your headunit, your car will still drive, but it's on you as ALL Clarity's are still under warranty. Once the warranty issue is no longer there, then this post may be more useful for desperate people trying to avoid a $4000 visit to the dealer or an ebay search in desperation for totaled Clarity's for salvage a'la RichRebuilds... (if you don't get that, Google it, it is worth it). I come from a generation that Apple would hate called "right to repair" and that is where the following post comes from. I have used this procedure more than a couple of times to avoid waiting at the dealer for really dumb solutions such as the following: We will reset your car by unplugging the battery. (Worse offer if it is a PHEV!) We will unplug your [12 volt] battery and short the cables to "hard reset" the car. We will replace your HU Display with a new one, Honda does not trouble shoot, just replace hardware, which is fine, unless your get another dud OR more than likely they miss configure it as there are VIN specific files on each HU root directory that if done wrong will make you unable to EVER update your GPS database from Garmin.... So here is the post, in all it's lackluster glory. If it makes you nervous or you are a person of little patience, read no further. https://www.insideevsforum.com/community/index.php?threads/navigation-going-blank.5111/#post-55027 Cheers, Cash
