Federal complaint record · Honda Pilot · model year 2004

2004 Honda Pilot

Owners submitted 544 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 59th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2002 to 2006 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is powertrain. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Powertrain · 22% · group n = 143Seats · 14% · group n = 87Airbags · 13% · group n = 81Electrical · 9% · group n = 60Engine · 8% · group n = 50
544
Complaint records on file
104,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 410 complaints reported mileage
22%
Of classified component reports name powertrain · group n = 143
59th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 33 model years

Powertrain · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Powertrain22%

Powertrain reports

Honda Pilot · model year 2004

Reports in this group143
Share of classified reports22%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2003
0.5complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
720 matched incidents
This car
2004
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
544 matched incidents
2005
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
679 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Transmission behavior · 112 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 1 of 32004 Honda Pilot
Airbag concerns · 80 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 2 of 32004 Honda Pilot
Brake performance · 32 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 3 of 32004 Honda Pilot

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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