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Model years to avoid

Honda Pilot

What it says about you

Opinion

Three rows and no drama, bought by someone who reads the maintenance schedule. It will do 250,000 miles if you let it and you fully intend to let it.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

22 model years on record, 7,847 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2019 (camera), 2017 (rod), 2016 (keyless start), 2005 (transmission). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • seat 2023, 2024 peak 25.2% of that year's complaints
  • popping 2020, 2024 peak 24.8% of that year's complaints
  • seatbelt 2009, 2023, 2024 peak 16% of that year's complaints
  • honda aware 2009, 2010 peak 9% of that year's complaints
  • head 2006, 2014 peak 6% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 1 recall 10 complaints
  2. 2025 4 recalls 178 complaints
  3. 2024 6 recalls 107 complaints
  4. 2023 5 recalls 131 complaints
  5. 2022 5 recalls 140 complaints
  6. 2021 10 recalls 417 complaints
  7. 2020 11 recalls 476 complaints
  8. 2019 camera 877 complaints
  9. 2018 7 recalls 435 complaints
  10. 2017 rod 907 complaints
  11. 2016 keyless start 1,680 complaints
  12. 2015 4 recalls 108 complaints
  13. 2014 3 recalls 116 complaints
  14. 2013 6 recalls 270 complaints
  15. 2012 9 recalls 170 complaints
  16. 2011 11 recalls 292 complaints
  17. 2010 10 recalls 111 complaints
  18. 2009 9 recalls 134 complaints
  19. 2008 9 recalls 132 complaints
  20. 2007 9 recalls 211 complaints
  21. 2006 10 recalls 266 complaints
  22. 2005 transmission 679 complaints

What does a Honda Pilot say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.