2021 Honda Ridgeline
This year drew an ordinary 98 complaints for a Honda Ridgeline — the model's median is 78. What they were about is the unusual part: 15.3% of them mention don, against 6% 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 | 98 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 78 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Recalls | 7 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- don — 15.3% of this year's complaints, against 6% across the other years of this generation (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: don, wife, purchased new, don parts.
- forward — 14.3% of this year's complaints, against 5.3% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: forward, across, allowed, coasting.
- turning — 8.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.1% across the other years of this generation (3.9×). Owners wrote it as: turning, easily.
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
My Ridgeline have a wireless charger that fails charging and and makes the phone hot after trying to charge the phone and fails, my Honda dealer replaced the unit but the problem persist, I did find that is not only my vehicle but a lot more and Honda is aware…
When vehicle is in drive, stopped on a steep hill, and allowed to slip backward the software puts the transmission in neutral and shuts of the engine off. This leaves the vehicle coasting backwards with very little steering or brakes. This happened to me and I…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V900000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V174000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 23V458000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 24V064000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 24V321000 BACK OVER PREVENTION 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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