2025 Honda Ridgeline
This year drew an ordinary 78 complaints for a Honda Ridgeline — the model's median is 98. What they were about is the unusual part: 32.1% of them mention stop, against 10.6% 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 | 78 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 98 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 20.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- stop — 32.1% of this year's complaints, against 10.6% across the other years of this generation (3×).
- turn — 25.6% of this year's complaints, against 9% across the other years of this generation (2.8×).
- headlights — 26.9% of this year's complaints, against 10.5% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: headlights, dimming, bring, delayed.
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 auto dimming feature for the headlights is ineffective & dangerous. It goes off & on constantly without oncoming vehicles or headlights & also the bright headlights remain on at times with on coming headlights. This happens with ALL sensitivity setting. Th…
The auto dimming is way to sensitive. It turns down on road signs, street lights etc.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V321000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 26V332000 AIR BAGS 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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