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2016 HONDA PILOT — Complaint #1682461

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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC) filed August 5, 2020

NHTSA complaint #1682461 (ODI reference 11343581) concerns a 2016 HONDA PILOT and was filed on August 5, 2020. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 5, 2020. The vehicle had 8,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Utah based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electronic stability control (esc), one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same HONDA PILOT cohort independently describe similar electronic stability control (esc) failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2016 HONDA PILOT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2016 HONDA PILOT
Component
ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)
State
Utah
Mileage
8,000 mi

Complaint Description

INTERMITTENTLY RECEIVE DASH ERROR CODE "'KEYLESS START SYSTEM PROBLEM ' " IT COMES AND GOES. ALSO VEHICLE STRUGGLES TO RESTART WHEN THE A ENGINE IDLE ENGAGES AT A STOP LIGHT. THIS HAS CREATED SAFETY ISSUES IN THE WINTER WHEN I CAN'T GO AT A GREEN LIGHT OR OTHERS AREN'T PAYING ATTENTION AND MY VEHICLE WON'T START. THERE IS NO WAY TO FULLY DEACTIVATE THIS FEATURE EXCEPT TO SHUT IT OFF AFTER TURNING IN CAR EVERY TIME. THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE THAT SERIOUSLY NEED TO BE ADDRESSED.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1682461
ODI Number 11343581
Date Filed August 5, 2020
Failure Date August 5, 2020
VIN 5FNYF6H08GB

Similar ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC) Complaints for 2016 HONDA PILOT

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.