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Control arm, ball joint or bushing failure on the 2017 Honda Pilot

Only 0 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.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $400–$2,200
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 75th

When control arm, ball joint or bushing failure gets reported

There are 1 report of control arm, ball joint or bushing failure on the 2017 Honda Pilot. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 75th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $400–$2,200 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 13 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2021, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2005 at 210,000 miles.

By volume the 2006 carries the most reports, with 14; the 2017 has 0. 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.

Median
  1. 2003 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 209k
  2. 2004 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 90k
  3. 2005 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 210k
  4. 2006 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 165k
  5. 2007 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 117k
  6. 2008 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  7. 2009 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 77k
  8. 2010 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 66k
  9. 2011 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 46k
  10. 2012 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 82k
  11. 2013 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 45k
  12. 2014 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  13. 2015 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 62k
  14. 2016 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 27k
  15. 2017 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  16. 2018 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  17. 2019 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  18. 2020 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  19. 2021 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 7k
  20. 2022 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 57k
  21. 2023 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 16k
  22. 2024 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
    no odometer readings given
    —

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2017 Honda Pilot

Other engine problem

308 reports median 43k

Other electrical problem

195 reports median 42k

Other powertrain problem

81 reports median 34k

Other fuel system problem

72 reports median 38k

Fuel pump failure

36 reports median 88k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report 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 1 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.

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