2008 Honda Ridgeline
This year drew an ordinary 140 complaints for a Honda Ridgeline — the model's median is 78. What they were about is the unusual part: 32.9% of them mention harness, against 10.1% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Honda Ridgeline, which began in 2006 and ran to 2015. 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 | 140 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 78 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- harness — 32.9% of this year's complaints, against 10.1% across the other years of this generation (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: harness, blower, wiring, fire.
- recalled — 6.4% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: recalled, instead.
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
HEATER BLOWER FAN STOPPED WORKING. TOOK TO DEALER 7/25/16 DEALER INSPECTED, FOUND MELTED WIRING HARNESS BENEATH DASH. COST TO REPAIR APPROXIMATELY $1000.00. THIS IS A FIRE HAZARD AND HAS AFFECTED 07 AND EARLIER MODEL RIDGELINES PER NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 10…
THE HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING BLOWER FAILED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A DEALER WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE ELECTRICAL WIRING HARNESS NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE TECHNICIAN MENTIONED THAT THE WIRING HARNESS HAD BURNED AND MELTED, WHICH CAUSED THE HEATING…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V182000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19E068000 VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL Fixed free of charge.
- 19V500000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V501000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V029000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V061000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V344000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 08E013000 EQUIPMENT
Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda Ridgeline 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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