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Model years to avoid

Honda Ridgeline

What it says about you

Opinion

The truck that truck people say is not a truck, bought by someone who has actually measured what they carry. It rides better than theirs and you have stopped mentioning it.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

20 model years on record, 2,122 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2019 (fuel), 2017 (tailgate), 2006 (motor). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • harness 2006, 2008, 2018, 2020 peak 32.9% of that year's complaints
  • camera 2018, 2020 peak 42% of that year's complaints
  • fuel 2018, 2019 peak 28.6% of that year's complaints
  • turn 2021, 2025 peak 25.6% of that year's complaints
  • radiator 2006, 2007 peak 14.2% of that year's complaints
  • exit 2022, 2023 peak 7.1% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 0 recalls 8 complaints
  2. 2025 2 recalls 78 complaints
  3. 2024 1 recall 50 complaints
  4. 2023 5 recalls 126 complaints
  5. 2022 3 recalls 112 complaints
  6. 2021 7 recalls 98 complaints
  7. 2020 9 recalls 166 complaints
  8. 2019 fuel 231 complaints
  9. 2018 8 recalls 157 complaints
  10. 2017 tailgate 335 complaints
  11. 2015 0 recalls 2 complaints
  12. 2014 7 recalls 34 complaints
  13. 2013 8 recalls 45 complaints
  14. 2012 12 recalls 24 complaints
  15. 2011 11 recalls 39 complaints
  16. 2010 10 recalls 42 complaints
  17. 2009 9 recalls 35 complaints
  18. 2008 10 recalls 140 complaints
  19. 2007 10 recalls 160 complaints
  20. 2006 motor 240 complaints

What does a Honda Ridgeline say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.