2020 Honda Ridgeline
This year drew an ordinary 166 complaints for a Honda Ridgeline — the model's median is 78. What they were about is the unusual part: 34.9% of them mention camera, against 9.7% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Honda Ridgeline, which began in 2017. 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 | 166 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 78 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Recalls | 9 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 21.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- camera — 34.9% of this year's complaints, against 9.7% across the other years of this generation (3.6×).
- harness — 30.7% of this year's complaints, against 10.5% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: harness, wiring, tailgate, wiring harness.
- black — 12% of this year's complaints, against 4.2% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: black, back camera, except.
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
Rear view camera ceased to display picture. Screen black except for yellow guidelines and view options. inspection of rear tailgate wiring found 3-4 wires in wiring harness corroded/broken. This is similar to known issue with 17-19 ridglines which have a TBS o…
The rear opening and closing of the tailgate caused a break in the wiring harness, causing the rearview camera to fail. This is due to a design flaw and identical to what has happened in the 2017-2019 models.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20E068000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 21V932000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 23V174000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 23V458000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 24V064000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 24V321000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 26V332000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 9. 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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