2013 Honda Ridgeline
This year drew an ordinary 45 complaints for a Honda Ridgeline — the model's median is 98. What they were about is the unusual part: 6.7% of them mention expected, against 0.4% 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 | 45 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 98 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 8 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- expected — 6.7% of this year's complaints, against 0.4% across the other years of this generation (16×).
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
NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 16V061000 (AIR BAGS) AND FELT THAT THE EXPECTED PART AVAILABILITY DATE WAS UNREASONABLE. THE CONTACT RECEIVED A LOANER VEHICLE, BUT OF A DIFFERENT MODEL. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE [VIN] EXCEEDED A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF T…
LIGHT STATE DOFF FOR APPROXIMATELY 5 SECONDS AND CAME ON AGAIN AND REMAINED ON AND IS STILL ON ON 11/15/18. SOMEHOW I WAS ABLE TO TRAVEL APPROXIMATELY 30 MILES TO THE NEXT EXIT, TUCUMCARI, NM, WITHOUT TRACTION AND LIMITED STEERING. NO REPORT TO POLICE WAS MADE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V662000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 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.
- 18V041000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V061000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 22V430000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
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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