Other speed control problem on the 2013 Honda Pilot
1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 15 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 speed control problem gets reported
Owners of the 2013 Honda Pilot report other speed control problem at a median of 400 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 100 miles and a quarter after 1,800 miles, from 12 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 78,000 miles. It is the 7th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 12 miles at the tenth percentile to 5,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 4,309 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
Reports bunched into a band this tight usually mean the component has a life of its own: it goes at roughly the same mileage regardless of who owns it.
100% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 miles | 81 miles | 425 miles | 1,803 miles | 4,321 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, 1 a crash and 1 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.
Putting it right typically runs $250–$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.
This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 17 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2013, at a median of 400 miles, and latest on the 2003 at 140,000 miles.
By volume the 2005 carries the most reports, with 34; the 2013 has 15. 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.
Shortly after acquiring my new pilot in february of this year I had and incident whereby at a low speed I lost all control of speed and the car began to slow down. Pressing the accelerator did nothing and the car behind me nearly hit me. It troubled me, but thought is was just something odd.. Until it happened again, and again. I have devised a response (remove pressure from the accelerator entirely and reapply pressure). This is a dangerous situation for anyone who does not know how to react even though one should not have to do this. I realize I am not alone, nor is this an isolated instance to my car. Browse the forum www.piloteers.org and there are numerous postings related to this and it seems to affect both 2012 and 2013 pilots. Honda has neither acknowledged nor attempted to fix this problem. *tr
Upon applying the brake in an avoidance situation, I noticed the spongy feel to the brakes. What concerns me more, is that during the process of the event, the brake pedal settles down to below the height of the accelerator and if your foot isn't square on the brake pedal, you wind up hitting the gas while trying to stop the vehicle.. I need to talk with someone. This is most certainly a defect in design. *tr
Often when I step on the gas petal the car hesitates before accelerating. The delay in acceleration is up to 3-5 seconds. Occasionally it feels like the car is going to stall. While it has been happening in the suburban and rural areas since we bought the car in late august, this week I had to drive into and around the city. When I press the gas petal down, the car simply does not move forward and then, without warning, it jumps forward at a rapid rate. To control the car it is necessary to keep one foot on the gas and the other on the brake in case it surges forward after the hesitation. The problem is worst in stop and go driving. It is frightening , a danger to me and my passengers and to other cars near me. It should be repaired. *tr
Also reported on the 2013 Honda Pilot
Other engine problem
Other powertrain problem
Other body or interior problem
Other brake problem
Paint peeling or clear coat failure
Sunroof failure or glass breakage
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 15 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 speed control problem happen on the 2013 Honda Pilot?
Across 12 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 400 miles. A quarter were filed before 100 miles and a quarter after 1,800 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other speed control problem on the 2013 Honda Pilot?
15 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