![]() Your Honda is watching your wheels go round and round and it is also recording the time each takes to rotate. If you have multiple lights lit up, it is not likely a VSA issue, but rather, the car just letting you know it shut off VSA temporarily until you fix the engine and clear the codes. In many Hondas, when something in the general engine system goes awry, the vehicle also shuts off VSA. Your VSA Light Is On - Because Something Else Went Wrong If this is the reason it turned on, it will shut back off. If you bump or brush or bump the button it may come on and the light is there to warn you that you have shut it off. It is directly next to your sunroof controls if you have an Accord with a sunroof. We have posted a picture at the top of the story. The button on the 2006 Honda Accord, for example, is down to the left of the steering wheel on the center dash about knee level. In vehicles a few years old, the system has a manual button that you can press to shut the system off in certain situations. If you have just noticed that your yellow triangle surrounding an exclamation point VSA warning light has come on, the most likely cause is you shut the system off accidentally. Anti-lock braking and other related systems interact with VSA. The VSA system is also part of the traction control system and helps you get moving in slippery situations. These actions by the system can keep your car from skidding, from flipping over, and ultimately from crashing. Like brake individual wheels, retard the engine power, and similar functions. It can do many things in certain risky situations that no driver can do. A system that Honda, and every automaker, uses to help you keep the vehicle under your control. Vehicle stability assist is just what it sounds like. If your VSA warning light has just come on there are two main reasons why, and a third that is less likely, but that you should know about. Every modern Honda has vehicle stability assist, also known as VSA. ![]()
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