2007 Honda Ridgeline
This year drew an ordinary 160 complaints for a Honda Ridgeline — the model's median is 78. What they were about is the unusual part: 6.3% of them mention radiator, against 1.4% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Honda Ridgeline, which began in 2006 and ran to 2015. 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 | 160 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 78 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 5 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- radiator — 6.3% of this year's complaints, against 1.4% across the other years of this generation (4.4×). Owners wrote it as: radiator, catastrophic, transmission fluid, lines.
- etc — 6.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: etc, prior recall, earlier, tail.
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
AFTER HAVING SPARK PLUGS, VALVE COVER GASKETS, INTAKE PLENUM GASKETS REPLACED, VEHICLE IS NOW CONSUMING HUGE AMOUNTS OF OIL WITH MINIMAL USE; MECHANIC SAYS IT NEEDS COMPLETE ENGINE OVERHAUL, RING JOB, ETC. OR [VIN] ENGINE AT COST OF SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS.
I took my vehicle for a state inspection as I had just purchased it was explained to me as a body rust only no frame rust vehicle. Upon inspection the mechanic showed me that the frame was rushed out completely at the rear end subframe inboard mounts. The gas…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V182000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19E068000 VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL Fixed free of charge.
- 19V501000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V500000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V029000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V344000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V061000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 08E013000 EQUIPMENT
Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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