2 NHTSA safety recalls cover the 2025 Honda Ridgeline. Owners have filed 95 complaints with NHTSA about this model year. Every recall repair is free at any Honda dealer.
Is yours affected? Recalls cover ranges of VINs, not every 2025 Honda Ridgeline. Check your Ridgeline by VIN and confirm open recalls at NHTSA.gov.
Each campaign as NHTSA published it: what is wrong, what can happen, and the fix. Newest first.
Owners filed 95 complaints with NHTSA about the 2025 Honda Ridgeline, reporting 2 crashes, 1 fires, 1 injuries. Honda has issued at least 17 technical service bulletins (repair instructions to dealers) for this model year. Complaints are unverified owner reports; a recall is the manufacturer’s admission of a safety defect.
Read Honda Ridgeline owner complaints and bulletins, every year
NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation lists this model year in one investigation. An investigation is not a recall; it is how NHTSA decides whether one is needed.
Owners have filed 95 complaints with NHTSA about the 2025 Honda Ridgeline. A few in their own words, shortened. Complaints are unverified and are not proof of a defect or of any recall.
“My Honda ridgeline had 7,590 miles when it started failing all the dash board lights turned on the engine decelerated I then tried to accelerate it rapidly accelerated my steering wheel vibrated I could not turn or slow down witch caused for me to crash”
Complaint filed with NHTSA, not verified by the agency · NHTSA complaint 11721115
“New 2025 Honda Ridgeline Black Edition with under 4k miles on it. Driving one day (10/30/25), smoke started to bellow out from the sides. Nothing on the dashboard indicated a problem. Everyone jumped out and was safe from injury. The truck went up in flames and literally blew up.”
Complaint filed with NHTSA, not verified by the agency · NHTSA complaint 11705807
“While turning left on a snowcovered road, my passenger airbags deployed when I slid into the curb. The only damage was to my rear passenger wheel. The force to the vehicle should not have been hard enough for the airbags to deploy. No warning lights prior to the accident.”
Complaint filed with NHTSA, not verified by the agency · NHTSA complaint 11635603
“The vehicle was stopped at a light and just died. We are 99% sure the start/stop button was turned off but Honda insisted it must have been active because they have had to replace many starters due to the starter not starting after the vehicle has stopped at a light.”
Complaint filed with NHTSA, not verified by the agency · NHTSA complaint 11769650
“starter went bad due to the auto idle start/stop the vehicle shut off at an intersection and would not start back they replaced the battery and said it was bad 3000 miles later the starter is bad according to the Fred Anderson honda dealership as i was having the same issue”
Complaint filed with NHTSA, not verified by the agency · NHTSA complaint 11769070
Search the official database: NHTSA. Excerpts are quoted from the public record, shortened at a sentence and with personal details removed.
Not every 2025 Honda Ridgeline is in every recall. Enter your 17-character VIN to see the recalls on record for your exact vehicle, then confirm which are still open at NHTSA.gov or with any Honda dealer.