Unclassified problem on the 2010 Honda Pilot
5 crashes 2 injuries 7 of the 20 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.
Only 7 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.
When unclassified problem gets reported
There are 20 reports of unclassified problem on the 2010 Honda Pilot, 7 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
It is the 33rd most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 50,000 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, 5 a crash and 2 an injury 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.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 20 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2022 at 240,000 miles.
By volume the 2016 carries the most reports, with 218; the 2010 has 20. 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.
Tl* the contact owns a 2010 honda pilot. The contact stated that while making a right turn, another vehicle crashed into the driver's side of the vehicle. Upon impact, all of the air bags deployed except the driver's side. The contact also stated that the vehicle was previously repaired under NHTSA campaign id number: 13v016000 (air bags). A police report was taken and the vehicle was deemed destroyed. The contact sustained minor injuries. The failure and current mileages were 50,000. *tr
My vehicle had been reposes breaking the bridge of peace. I live in a closed gated condominium,the tow company took break into the condominium. Took my car without notice,no notes left no telling the property manager. No telling the insite security service,the honda financial repo department do not want to talk to me customer service just said to wait until they call me but every day is money for storage and they don't resolve the issue,I pay last september,they yold me that a letter was mailed to my house but they mistake my address from 1331 correct to 1313 so I wasn't aware. I make 5yrs of payment just need to do 5 more to finished my contract owe them now 2 month that I wasn't aware because I made payments online.they took my payment last month and never said a work.this is a fraud to stole my car that is worth $25,000.need help I buy it new from dealer at california 2009 currently register to me in miami florida since 2013. *tr
The vehicle will randomly start vibrating in the front dashboard. Not sure if it is transmission, engine or suspension or alignment related. Driving over 45 MPH the entire front dashboard and steering wheel will begin to vibrate. It will last for about 10 seconds and then stop. It does a lot going uphill. Even on flat land it will just randomly start violently vibrating. I just purchased this used vehicle on april 19 of 2018. I am starting to regret it. I have read many reports of the honda pilots vibration issues. I have read that it is mainly due to the vcm.
Also reported on the 2010 Honda Pilot
Airbag inflator rupture
Other engine problem
Other suspension problem
Excessive oil consumption
Misfire or rough idle
Control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 20 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.
Complaints are voluntary, so 20 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 unclassified problem happen on the 2010 Honda Pilot?
Across 7 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 50,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is unclassified problem on the 2010 Honda Pilot?
20 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