Too few owners filed complaints about the 2008 Ridgeline in its first three years to say whether it is a better or a worse year than the others. Among the 7 Ridgeline years with enough complaints to compare, owners filed the fewest about the 2020 (0.92 per 1,000 sold) and the most about the 2017 (2.64).
Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.
too few complaints to rank against its other years
Counted from 19 complaints filed in the first three years, of 144 ever. 95% lower bound 0.31.
The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters. The bar is how many complaints each rate rests on.
| Model year | Per 1,000 | Complaints | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 0.56 | 19 | |
| 2009 | 0.08 | 2 | |
| 2010 | 0.61 | 10 | |
| 2011 | 0.08 | 1 | |
| 2013 | 0.19 | 3 | |
| 2014 | 0.84 | 13 | |
| 2017 | 2.64 | 77 | |
| 2018 | 1.01 | 33 | |
| 2019 | 1.56 | 50 | |
| 2020 | 0.92 | 30 | |
| 2021 | 1.33 | 49 | |
| 2022 | 1.85 | 78 | |
| 2023 | 1.98 | 94 |
Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.
| recall | 58 | 97% | |
| recall notification | 23 | 38% | |
| numbers | 14 | 23% | |
| bags air | 13 | 22% | |
| numbers air | 13 | 22% |
Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.
That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.
Too few owners filed complaints about the 2008 Ridgeline in its first three years to say whether it is a better or a worse year than the others. Among the 7 Ridgeline years with enough complaints to compare, owners filed the fewest about the 2020 (0.92 per 1,000 sold) and the most about the 2017 (2.64). The typical year is the median across its model years.
The parts owners named most often in complaints filed to date: Air Bags (60), Electrical System (30), Structure (15). The phrases they used are listed above.
Complaint records cannot settle that on their own. They count safety problems owners chose to report to the federal government, not every repair. What they do show is how this year compares with the other Ridgeline years: too few owners filed complaints about the 2008 Ridgeline in its first three years to say whether it is a better or a worse year than the others.
Among years with enough complaints to compare, the 2020, at 0.92 per 1,000 sold. Every Ridgeline year, ranked.
No guide we read covers the Ridgeline.
Example records behind this page, each on NHTSA’s own site: