Federal complaint record · Honda Pilot · model year 2005

2005 Honda Pilot

Owners submitted 679 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 67th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2003 to 2007 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is powertrain. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Powertrain · 18% · group n = 176Brakes · 14% · group n = 136Airbags · 13% · group n = 120Stability control · 10% · group n = 97Engine · 10% · group n = 91
679
Complaint records on file
102,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 566 complaints reported mileage
18%
Of classified component reports name powertrain · group n = 176
67th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 35 model years

Powertrain · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Powertrain18%

Powertrain reports

Honda Pilot · model year 2005

Reports in this group176
Share of classified reports18%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2004
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
544 matched incidents
This car
2005
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
679 matched incidents
2006
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
266 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 · 155 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 1 of 32005 Honda Pilot
Brake performance · 149 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32005 Honda Pilot
Airbag concerns · 94 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 3 of 32005 Honda Pilot

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

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