Federal complaint record · Honda Pilot · model year 2018

2018 Honda Pilot

Owners submitted 427 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 59th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2016 to 2020 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is engine. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Engine · 25% · group n = 158Fuel system · 20% · group n = 124Electrical · 13% · group n = 84Powertrain · 12% · group n = 77Other · 11% · group n = 71
427
Complaint records on file
47,500
Median mileage at the reported problem · 104 complaints reported mileage
25%
Of classified component reports name engine · group n = 158
59th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Engine · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Engine25%

Engine reports

Honda Pilot · model year 2018

Reports in this group158
Share of classified reports25%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2017
0.8complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
902 matched incidents
This car
2018
0.4complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
427 matched incidents
2019
0.9complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
867 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
Stalling or shutdown · 87 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 1 of 32018 Honda Pilot
Transmission behavior · 46 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 2 of 32018 Honda Pilot
Brake performance · 36 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 3 of 32018 Honda Pilot

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

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