Honda Ridgeline / 2025
2025 Honda Ridgeline problems
Owners have filed 117 complaints about the 2025 Honda Ridgeline with NHTSA. Exterior lighting accounts for 19.7% of them — narrowly the most common, ahead of electrical system at 18.8%.
Complaints117
Crashes4
Fires1
Injuries3
Deaths0
What owners report breaking
Exterior lighting 19.7% · 23
Electrical system 18.8% · 22
Engine 16.2% · 19
Forward collision avoidance 12.8% · 15
Unknown or other 12.0% · 14
Service brakes 6.0% · 7
Vehicle speed control 3.4% · 4
Lane departure 3.4% · 4
Severity
Of those complaints, 4 describe a crash, 1 describe a fire and 3 report an injury.
Reading the numbers
Across the 11 model years of the Honda Ridgeline in this data, 2025 draws comparatively few complaints; 2017 is the outlier year.
The median odometer reading at the time of complaint was 299 miles.
In owners' own words
The auto headlights do not come on and if they do they almost always turn off immediately. The will not come on at speeds under 25 and this is too slow. To cap all of this they randomly come on when cars are driving towards you even though I have tried to disable this feature totally. They are a safety hazard and used to work on older models flawlessly. Exterior lighting
Auto high beam turns off and on on dark country road repeatedly with no other cars or light present . This means I lose highbeams when needed the most for animals in road. Also, the system goes from low beam into high beam when a car approaches in opposite lane blinding them. In short , is dangerous to use this safety feature! Exterior lighting
When the automatic dimming headlamp is turned on, the headlamps do not perform as expected. When the bright lights finally did turn on, they didn't dim with an approaching vehicle. I reported it to the dealer, and they told me of a fix but that was for turning the headlamps on at dusk not dimming the headlamps Exterior lighting
Verbatim from NHTSA filings. Complaints are unverified owner reports.
Safety recalls
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