2018 Honda Ridgeline
This year drew an ordinary 157 complaints for a Honda Ridgeline — the model's median is 78. What they were about is the unusual part: 42% of them mention camera, against 9.7% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Honda Ridgeline, which began in 2017. 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 | 157 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 78 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 8 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 21.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- camera — 42% of this year's complaints, against 9.7% across the other years of this generation (4.3×).
- harness — 30.6% of this year's complaints, against 7.7% across the other years of this generation (4×). Owners wrote it as: harness, wiring, wiring harness, wire harness.
- fuel — 19.7% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the other years of this generation (7.3×).
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
The backup camera wiring harness wires are rubbed down to bare wires. I just returned from my local Honda service center without having the issue repaired. I declined to have the work done because it would have cost me around $400.00 to replace the wiring harn…
Wiring harness is failing in tailgate. Protective covering is split, exposing electrical wires that supply power to backup camera and other crucial electrical components in rear of vehicle. Harness does not seem secure when opening the tailgate and has excessi…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V053000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 18V221000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 20E068000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 21V932000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 22V867000 BACK OVER PREVENTION 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 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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