2018 Honda Pilot
This year drew an ordinary 435 complaints for a Honda Pilot — the model's median is 178. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.5% of them mention pump, against 2.8% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 3 of the Honda Pilot, which began in 2016 and ran to 2022. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 435 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 178 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 7 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- pump — 8.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the other years of this generation (3×). Owners wrote it as: pump, fuel pump.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
This recall for the fuel pump has been outstanding for a year. The dealership insists parts are still not available. When will this be resolved?
Fuel pump issues. The 2019 Honda pilot fuel pump has been recalled. The 2018 has same issue. I should not be having this type of problem on such a new vehicle .
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V932000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 19V298000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 18V221000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V751000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 26V332000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 26V365000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda Pilot was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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