2025 HONDA PILOT — Complaint #2067068
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NHTSA Complaint about FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: SENSING SYSTEM: RADAR filed February 19, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2067068 (ODI reference 11643635) concerns a 2025 HONDA PILOT and was filed on February 19, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 16, 2025. The vehicle had 1,172 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Tennessee based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as forward collision avoidance: sensing system: radar, 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 forward collision avoidance: sensing system: radar 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 2025 HONDA PILOT shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2025 Honda Pilot. The contact stated that while driving 74 MPH, the vehicle unintendedly decelerated to 50 MPH. The message "Front Driver's Assist System Cannot Operate - Clean Area Some" was displayed. The contact stated while in the process of pulling over to the side of the road, the vehicle accelerated as needed. The contact was able to continue driving. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, where it was diagnosed that the front radar had gone into LIMP mode and was misaligned. The dealer realigned the radar. Additionally, the dealer informed the contact that it was a known failure and that the front radar of the vehicle could become misaligned after hitting a pothole. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure, and a case was opened. The failure mileage was 1,172.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2067068 |
| ODI Number | 11643635 |
| Date Filed | February 19, 2025 |
| Failure Date | February 16, 2025 |
| VIN | 5FNYG1H88SB |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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