2022 Honda Pilot
This year drew an ordinary 140 complaints for a Honda Pilot — the model's median is 211. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.3% of them mention sunroof, against 3.1% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Honda Pilot ran from 2016 to 2022, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 140 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 211 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- sunroof — 9.3% of this year's complaints, against 3.1% across the other years of this generation (3×). Owners wrote it as: sunroof, exploded, shattered, spontaneously.
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
Driving on freeway, at speed limit. All was clear. The sunroof spontaneously exploded. Nothing struck it, it just exploded on its own.
Driving down the highway with the sunroof cracked open and there was a loud noise and quickly had to close the sunroof and the slider because the sunroom shattered. No one saw any debris.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V431000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 23V458000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 24V064000 AIR BAGS 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 Pilot 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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