Other body or interior problem on the 2006 Honda Pilot
3 crashes 1 fire 4 of the 24 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other body or interior problem gets reported
Owners of the 2006 Honda Pilot report other body or interior problem at a median of 125,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 80,000 miles and a quarter after 170,000 miles, from 17 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 1st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 70,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 235,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 165,690 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
6% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67,820 miles | 80,000 miles | 125,864 miles | 170,000 miles | 233,510 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 3 a crash and 1 a fire are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $200–$2,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 22 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2006 at 125,000 miles.
By volume the 2004 carries the most reports, with 115; the 2006 has 24. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Began noticing a musty smell in the vehicle, followed several months later by a sloshing sound that eventually manifested itself into a rolling wave of water that swept over my floor mats. Water is saturating the carpets (think of a wet sponge) after entering the vehicle passenger compartment through undetermined points at or near the firewall. This definitely occurs whenever the vehicle is driven in rain, when driven over wet and snow-covered roads, and when sitting in a car wash. I have not determined if it occurs while the vehicle sits unused in the driveway. The dealer has removed, cleaned, reinstalled, and resealed a "body plug" that was supposedly improperly sealed at the factory; yet, even after this service work, the problem persists. Searching the web, I've noticed other honda pilot and ridgeline owners experiencing the same type of water leakage problem; and, with varying degrees of success, dealers seem to be putting "band aids" (caulk) on a variety of noted and potential entry points through the firewall, wheel wells, and welded metal joints. *tr
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 honda pilot. The contact stated that after rolling down the rear drivers side window, it would not roll back up. A popping noise could be heard coming from the window while the contact attempted to roll it back up. The contact took the vehicle to the dealer and was told that the actuator for the window failed. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage and current mileages were 86,912.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 honda pilot. The contact was driving approximately 45 MPH when the plastic support clips dislodged from the front driver's seat back panel and resulted in the panel becoming partially detached. The failure would occur whenever the vehicle was in motion. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer where the support clips were replaced. Most recently, the similar failure recurred and the contact purchased a new back panel for the front driver's seat to replace the defective one. The manufacturer was notified of the defect. The approximate failure mileage was 50,000. Updated 02/06/12*bf the consumer stated the repair to the clips were made by the dealer twice within two years. The consumer was informed if they replaced the cheap plastic clips, it would fall again since the plastic slot where the clips slide into become bent each time it falls out. The panel falls off spontaneously without any warning. Updated 02/10/12
Also reported on the 2006 Honda Pilot
Airbag inflator rupture
Other brake problem
Other driver assistance problem
Control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
Other speed control problem
Misfire or rough idle
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 24 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other body or interior problem happen on the 2006 Honda Pilot?
Across 17 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 125,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 80,000 miles and a quarter after 170,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other body or interior problem on the 2006 Honda Pilot?
24 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed