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Honda Pilot 2016

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

1.45 per 1,000

2.1 times this nameplate’s own median · from 186 complaints filed in the first three years, of 1712 ever. 95% lower bound 1.24.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.20	21
2009	0.15	22
2010	0.10	14
2011	0.70	77
2012	0.57	66
2013	0.91	110
2014	0.33	39
2015	0.23	28
2016	1.45	186
2017	0.84	104
2018	0.35	50
2019	1.00	148
2020	1.59	206
2021	1.03	137
2022	0.49	59
2023	0.81	85

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Engine 773 complaints

rod	203	26%
rod bearing	122	16%
feature	109	14%
connecting	99	13%
connecting rod	96	12%
start stop	73	9%

Electrical System 580 complaints

keyless	214	37%
keyless start	172	30%
start system	158	27%
idle	109	19%
feature	100	17%
start stop	76	13%

Unknown Or Other 291 complaints

start	158	54%
keyless	85	29%
start system	74	25%
keyless start	73	25%
idle	57	20%
feature	48	17%

When it breaks

23% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 50,000 miles, from 737 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

4 investigations covering this model year, 0 of which list a recall campaign.

No Restart After Auto Start/Stop Engages

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

10745397 · 10763719 · 10780519 · 10785705 · 10788507 · 10789635

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.