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What the official records show
For the 2019 Honda Pilot, the NHTSA complaint API returned 883 unique owner complaint records across the catalog variants PILOT when Car Trouble Lab captured this dataset. Those records included 13 reports marked as involving a crash and 5 marked as involving a fire. Injury and death fields summed to 15 injuries and 0 deaths. The NHTSA recalls API returned 13 distinct safety campaigns, including 18V848000, 19V298000, 19V784000, and 20V439000. The captured component evidence profile was ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: 255 tags (29% of unique complaint records), 1 crash-marked, 1 fire-marked, and 3 reported injuries; ENGINE: 225 tags (25% of unique complaint records), 0 crash-marked, 2 fire-marked, and 1 reported injuries; FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: 117 tags (13% of unique complaint records), 3 crash-marked, 0 fire-marked, and 2 reported injuries; FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM: 111 tags (13% of unique complaint records), 1 crash-marked, 0 fire-marked, and 1 reported injuries; POWER TRAIN: 91 tags (10% of unique complaint records), 2 crash-marked, 0 fire-marked, and 4 reported injuries. The campaign evidence profile was 18V848000 (STRUCTURE:BODY:ROOF AND PILLARS; received 28/11/2018); 19V298000 (ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE:BELTS AND ASSOCIATED PULLEYS; received 12/04/2019); 19V784000 (STRUCTURE:BODY; received 31/10/2019); 20V439000 (BACK OVER PREVENTION: SENSING SYSTEM: CAMERA; received 28/07/2020); 20V440000 (ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; received 28/07/2020). These are reported-record counts, not a measured failure rate and not a diagnosis of any individual vehicle.
SOURCES
- NHTSA complaint and recall aggregateNHTSA Consumer Complaints · primary source
- NHTSA complaint and recall aggregateNHTSA Recalls · primary source
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How to interpret the pattern
The most frequently assigned complaint component categories in this captured query were ELECTRICAL SYSTEM (255), ENGINE (225), FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE (117), FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM (111), and POWER TRAIN (91). Adjacent captured model years reported 2018: 436 complaints and 7 campaigns; 2020: 478 complaints and 11 campaigns. These comparisons are raw record totals, not exposure-adjusted rates. One complaint can carry more than one component tag, so category counts should not be added to reproduce the total complaint count. Too few usable positive mileage values were present to publish a median. NHTSA complaint records are owner-submitted and may be incomplete, duplicated before ODI-number deduplication, or unverified. A high count can also reflect how many vehicles were sold and how long they have been on the road. Use this page to choose inspection questions, not to label every 2019 Honda Pilot defective.
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What to check next
Start with the categories that repeat most often, then compare the complaint description and warning symptoms with the actual vehicle rather than ordering a part from a category label. Check the full 17-character VIN in NHTSA's official recall lookup because a model-year campaign list cannot tell whether a particular vehicle is included or whether its remedy was completed. Preserve diagnostic trouble codes and freeze-frame data before clearing them, ask for repair invoices, and obtain a qualified inspection when a symptom affects braking, steering, restraint systems, fire risk, or drivability. Car Trouble Lab does not determine whether a vehicle is safe to drive.