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Control arm, ball joint or bushing failure on the 2022 Honda Pilot

Only 2 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 2
With an odometer reading 2
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 31st

When control arm, ball joint or bushing failure gets reported

There are 2 reports of control arm, ball joint or bushing failure on the 2022 Honda Pilot, 2 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 108,000 miles. It is the 31st most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 2 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 56,500 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

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 2022 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 Honda Pilot control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
    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 (this one) 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 2022 Honda Pilot

Lane keep or steering assist fault

22 reports median 80

Other driver assistance problem

22 reports median 12k

Cruise control failure

20 reports median 80k

Other electrical problem

18 reports median 24k

Other engine problem

15 reports median 96k

Other powertrain problem

11 reports median 45k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 2 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 2 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 control arm, ball joint or bushing failure happen on the 2022 Honda Pilot?

Across 2 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 55,000 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 control arm, ball joint or bushing failure on the 2022 Honda Pilot?

2 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.0 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