Federal complaint record · Honda Pilot · model year 2003

2003 Honda Pilot

Owners submitted 720 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 69th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2001 to 2005 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is powertrain. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Powertrain · 26% · group n = 225Electrical · 15% · group n = 132Airbags · 13% · group n = 117Engine · 7% · group n = 63Structure · 6% · group n = 48
720
Complaint records on file
117,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 535 complaints reported mileage
26%
Of classified component reports name powertrain · group n = 225
69th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 31 model years

Powertrain · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Powertrain26%

Powertrain reports

Honda Pilot · model year 2003

Reports in this group225
Share of classified reports26%
Component groups on file6
Open the failure files

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Transmission behavior · 169 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 1 of 32003 Honda Pilot
Airbag concerns · 82 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 2 of 32003 Honda Pilot
Brake performance · 46 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 3 of 32003 Honda Pilot

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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