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Honda Pilot 2013

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

0.91 per 1,000

1.3 times this nameplate’s own median · from 110 complaints filed in the first three years, of 271 ever. 95% lower bound 0.74.

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 79 complaints

eco	22	28%
vibration	18	23%
vcm	12	16%
eco mode	12	16%
annoying	11	14%

Power Train 54 complaints

vibration	24	45%
eco	20	37%
eco mode	13	25%
annoying	12	23%

When it breaks

51% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 28,000 miles, from 201 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

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:

10491996 · 10493793 · 10496730 · 10496956 · 10497645 · 10499673

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.