2004 Honda Pilot

The 2004 Honda Pilot has 7 recalls, the most serious being a Takata airbag inflator defect affecting both the driver and front passenger airbags, where the inflators can rupture and send sharp metal fragments into the cabin, causing serious injury or death.

The driver and passenger frontal airbag inflator issue is the dominant concern here, covered across multiple recall filings that reflect the scope and persistence of the Takata inflator problem. In a crash that triggers airbag deployment, either inflator can explode rather than inflate normally, scattering metal shrapnel toward the driver, front passenger, or rear occupants. Prior repair attempts did not fully resolve the issue for all affected vehicles, which is why multiple campaigns exist for what is essentially the same underlying hazard. There is a related but distinct concern: on some vehicles where the front passenger airbag was previously replaced, it may have been installed incorrectly and can deploy improperly in a crash, raising the risk of injury even when the inflator itself is not ruptured. Together, these airbag issues represent the most urgent safety concerns on this vehicle. Rounding out the list is a low-severity compliance recall involving the certification label, which may show incorrect vehicle weight and tire size information, a paperwork issue with no direct mechanical consequence.