Hi Accordites!
For context, I've bought a used 2017 LX for a family member. I haven't owned an Accord since the 5th Gen, so I'm unfamiliar with the newer console controls. Driving it home from the purchase (I have no manual) I tried out a left steering wheel button that I'd describe as a "Pages" button, just above the main circle buttons of the left side. It obviously "paged" or cycled through about 4 or so display pages in the larger central display of the dashboard. I think the third one showed an image of a filling station gas pump. It seemed logical that the desired function might be that one could stop on one of these pages and have it display something useful but I couldn't figure out how to make it stop. I tried "double-clicking" the button to no avail. I think each "page" (really just one of four large blocky icons across this central screen) seemed to be offering to display something useful but if it did, they just flashed and went away. I was driving so I didn't have time to experiment and I don't have the car at the moment. Can someone describe what's "supposed" to be happening and how the driver is supposed to control it?
That large center of dashboard screen by default was sitting on a screen that showed 3 horizontal graph lines that seemed to be current MPG, previous MPG and something else but it was hard to read the part of the screen other than the graph lines because the daylight was too bright. Can one choose what this central screen will show by default or is one doomed to watch MPG during a trip? I do like that the Time of Day is large and clear in the upper right and always easy to see.
Thanks!
lane4change

 

Sounds like the button is physically sticking. It shouldn't do that. You just press once and it changes one screen. Press again and it changes one screen. I recommend an electronic cleaning spray.

You get to pick what you want to see and easily change as needed. Audio, Current Trip MPG, Last 4 Trip A MPG Average, Clock.

 

You, my good sir, are one of those wonderful souls who takes the time to write a bit when he reads someone's question! Thank you! I will indeed use some electronic cleaning spray on that button, just in case. But I think it may be more of a case of operator (me) ignorance. When I press the pages button it does do something right away but I wouldn't call the thing it shows to be a different "page" of information, instead it seems to be the 4 big blocky icons, left to right, and that first press has put the focus on the first of the four. The next press moves the focus one icon to the right, and so forth, through all 4 icons, the third one, I believe, being the one I can recognize as a filling station gas pump. My problem is that even though the pages button has cycled me through the 4 icons, I don't know what action might activate any of the 4 to actually see a page of information. One might think that doing nothing, simply not pressing the pages button another time might then, in a couple of seconds, advance the 4-icon page to the information page of the icon left with the focus. For example, if I stopped on the gas pump icon after 3 presses then it would show me some gasoline info like the tank fill level and range-left info perhaps. But instead, any of them just revert back to the default screen which i think is the 3 bar graphs of Current Trip MPG, Last Trip MPG, something like that, speaking from memory of that one trip a couple days ago (my wife has been driving it ever since, so I've not had time to experiment.) It might be that this 2017 I've bought came after the "gen 9 facelift" (maybe?) and they fiddled with the information screens. Of course, I probably just need to get in there when its in the driveway and play more extensively with the buttons. Is there a pdf of the owner's manual on this site or linked somewhere? I haven't really searched for that yet. ~~lane4change~~

 

Here is the owner's manual: https://techinfo.honda.com/rjanisis/...at2a1717om.pdf
Page 195 explains the screen controls.

By chance, is your radio an aftermarket brand or is it a stock-looking push-button model?

Does is look exactly like this:

 

FINALLY! My wife left the Accord in the driveway long enough for me to go sit in it and properly check what I had done before and really take a look at it. It's now obvious that there was never a problem and everything works perfectly just as you described. I've decided that what happened was that since I was on the Interstate and had to keep my attention on the road, I really must have just cycled through the pages button too quickly to really stop on one and that perhaps I tried once but happened on the same display that had been the default, making me think that was somehow the "home" screen, thus my question. I now know better! The dashboard looks exactly like your picture up there, I'm sure a very standard 2017 LX. I now know I can fairly easily get it to keep any of the 4 screens up there as the "home" and I've now sat through a lengthy exploration of all the audio and phone options. I actually really like how straight-forward it is and how intuitive many of the functions are. I saved quite a bunch of local radio presets in and looked over many other dashboard items at this sitting.

There was a time, not that many years ago, when I would never have bought a car without knowing all this stuff in advance but as many of you know or can imagine, life as you get older can bring many seemingly strange and new situations. I've found myself buying cars for others under time pressures and have had to learn to be less of a "maximizer" a lot of the time! And, Rich!, thanks so much for the Honda link to the Owner's Manual - that will be invaluable!

So hey! I took a look at your 66 MGB pages and am totally jealous and impressed at your work! Absolutely gorgeous! It would be a delight to have an MGB to purr around in on a Saturday morning. I had a beautiful little silver TR-6 back after college and remember some great Saturday's in that one. Part of my time pressured weekend while acquiring the Accord had to do with getting rid of a 91 Miata I had been working on. I had acquired it as a high school car for one of the kids but then kept it on myself long after that. I got curious to figure out what the machine code was like in the engine control chip and it was a rather long path I took before I felt I understood how really boring those little functions were at dawn of not metering out the gas with a carburetor. Along the way I replaced and rebuilt quite a few little systems of the Miata but in the end I decided the old body and frame I had were not worth a full and serious restoration effort and I would hope that opportunity might still come to me in the future. For every one of you real restorers there's probably a hundred of us dreamers that never get there - but we're grateful when you guys take pictures and write it up!

~~lane4change~~