Federal complaint record · Honda Pilot · model year 2017

2017 Honda Pilot

Owners submitted 902 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 76th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2015 to 2019 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is engine. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Engine · 36% · group n = 466Electrical · 20% · group n = 262Fuel system · 11% · group n = 138Other · 10% · group n = 135Powertrain · 9% · group n = 122
902
Complaint records on file
37,924
Median mileage at the reported problem · 250 complaints reported mileage
36%
Of classified component reports name engine · group n = 466
76th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Engine · 4 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Engine36%

Engine reports

Honda Pilot · model year 2017

Reports in this group466
Share of classified reports36%
Component groups on file6
Open the failure files

Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2016
1.4complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,668 matched incidents
This car
2017
0.8complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
902 matched incidents
2018
0.4complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
427 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Stalling or shutdown · 252 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 1 of 32017 Honda Pilot
Transmission behavior · 87 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 2 of 32017 Honda Pilot
Brake performance · 79 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 3 of 32017 Honda Pilot

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

Records through 2026-07-19Published 2026-08-02 · Updated 2026-07-19

Published model-year records · free · no login

Check the next car before the test drive

NHTSA consumer complaint records can reveal recurring patterns across published model years. MotorCensus summarizes those records as one complaint-signal index, with a 95% interval and sample size, updated with each data snapshot.

Browse all Honda records How the index works