Honda: 41 published Texas lemon law decisions
Every published TxDMV decision naming Honda, for case-years 2014-2026, with what each order did and a link to the order itself.
This is not a census of Texas lemon vehicles, and no number on this page is a defect rate. Confidential settlements, manufacturer buybacks agreed before a hearing, and complaints withdrawn along the way never enter this corpus at all and are structurally invisible to it. What is counted here is contested proceedings that reached a published decision, which is a small and non-random slice of everything that goes wrong with a vehicle in Texas.
A manufacturer with more decisions here is not "more of a lemon" than one with fewer. It may simply have sold far more units in Texas, or its owners may be likelier to push a dispute to a contested hearing rather than settle. There is no sales or registration denominator behind these counts, so the division that would turn them into a rate cannot be done, and this site does not publish one.
What these 41 orders did
Counts of published proceedings naming Honda. These are not shares of anything: there is no figure here for how many vehicles Honda sold in Texas, so no proportion computed from this table would mean what it appears to mean.
| What the order did | Decisions |
|---|---|
| Repurchase ordered | 3 |
| Repair ordered | 5 |
| Dismissed | 33 |
Which vehicles these decisions were about
Make and model exactly as the source documents print them, so a model that two orders name differently appears twice rather than being silently merged. A model appearing more often is not a defect rate.
| Vehicle | Decisions |
|---|---|
| Honda Pilot | 11 |
| Honda Odyssey | 7 |
| Honda CR-V | 6 |
| Honda Accord | 5 |
| Honda Accord Hybrid | 3 |
| Honda HR-V | 2 |
| Honda Ridgeline | 2 |
| Honda Civic | 1 |
| Honda Civic EX | 1 |
| Honda Civic SI | 1 |
| Honda Odyssey Elite | 1 |
| Honda TRX520 | 1 |
By vehicle model year
The model year of the vehicle at issue, not the year the decision issued.
| Model year | Decisions |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2021 | 3 |
| 2020 | 4 |
| 2019 | 3 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2017 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2 |
| 2015 | 3 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 |
Every Honda decision
41 recordsNewest decision first. Every row links the source document it was read from.
Source PDF 2022 Honda Pilot
brake squeal and stalling/hesitation on acceleration Dismissed
Source PDF 2021 Honda HR-V
infotainment/navigation power loss with black display Dismissed
Source PDF 2022 Honda Accord Hybrid
random loss of power and false braking/fault warnings Dismissed
Source PDF 2023 Honda Ridgeline
transmission shifts out of gear unexpectedly Dismissed
Source PDF 2019 Honda Pilot
unintended shift to neutral, stalling and no-restart Dismissed
Source PDF 2021 Honda TRX520
transmission shifting faults (third gear noise and skipping) Dismissed
Source PDF 2020 Honda Pilot
multiple dashboard warning lights, steering clicking noise Dismissed
Source PDF 2018 Honda Accord Hybrid
air conditioning malfunction; fuel economy below EPA estimate Dismissed
Source PDF 2018 Honda Pilot
intermittent warning lights; power steering and brake lockup Dismissed
Source PDF 2020 Honda Pilot
electrical wiring, audio and infotainment defects; battery drain Dismissed
Source PDF 2020 Honda Pilot
popping noises and electronic control button malfunction Repair ordered
Source PDF 2018 Honda Odyssey
audio/information touchscreen becomes non-responsive Repair ordered
Source PDF 2017 Honda CR-V
blind spot information system / infotainment control head false readings Repair ordered
Source PDF 2018 Honda CR-V
fuel migration into the oil system (rising oil level) Dismissed
Source PDF 2019 Honda Pilot
chirping/squeaking noise when decelerating with the air conditioning on Dismissed
Source PDF 2018 Honda CR-V
collision mitigation system activating without cause Dismissed
Source PDF 2018 Honda CR-V
multiple warning indicators illuminating Repurchase ordered
Source PDF 2018 Honda Accord
parking brake failure and warning message Repurchase ordered
Source PDF 2018 Honda Accord
intermittent electrical/software faults illuminating warning lights Dismissed
Source PDF 2018 Honda Accord
collision mitigation braking system (CMBS) warning message display Dismissed
Source PDF 2018 Honda Odyssey Elite
rear entertainment system malfunction and speaker noise Repair ordered
Source PDF 2015 Honda Odyssey
creaking noise from sliding doors / B pillar Repair ordered
Source PDF 2014 Honda Accord
intermittent no-start and radio/display shutting off Repurchase ordered
Source PDF 2013 Honda CR-V
excessive vibration in steering wheel and interior body Dismissed
The honest use of this page is to read the orders. Every row links the document it came from, and those documents say what happened in a specific dispute over a specific vehicle: what the defect was, how many repair attempts there were, and what the examiner ordered.
The dishonest use is to treat the number at the top as a quality score. It counts contested proceedings that reached a published decision, which is a function of how many vehicles a manufacturer sells in Texas, how its warranty department handles disputes before they get that far, and how likely its owners are to push a case to hearing rather than accept an offer. Those are three different things, and none of them is the reliability of the vehicle.