Federal complaint record · Honda Pilot · model year 2009

2009 Honda Pilot

Owners submitted 134 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 30th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2007 to 2011 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is engine. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Engine · 22% · group n = 39Airbags · 17% · group n = 29Suspension · 11% · group n = 19Brakes · 9% · group n = 15Steering · 8% · group n = 13
134
Complaint records on file
70,400
Median mileage at the reported problem · 83 complaints reported mileage
22%
Of classified component reports name engine · group n = 39
30th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 37 model years

Engine · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Engine22%

Engine reports

Honda Pilot · model year 2009

Reports in this group39
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
2008
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
132 matched incidents
This car
2009
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
134 matched incidents
2010
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
111 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
Airbag concerns · 28 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32009 Honda Pilot
Brake performance · 15 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32009 Honda Pilot
Engine damage · 12 reports

Reports describe engine damage or oil consumption

Cluster 3 of 32009 Honda Pilot

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

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