Headlights Problems of Honda Ridgeline

The contact owns a 2015 Honda Ridgeline. The contact stated that the auto high beam headlights failed to function properly. The contact stated that the failure was intermittent. The vehicle was taken to a local dealer, where the vehicle was diagnosed, and the contact was informed that no failure was found with the high beam headlights. The contact was informed that the best fix was to switch the lights to manual mode. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 19,090.

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The contact owns a 2025 Honda Ridgeline. The contact stated that the high beam lights turn on and off while driving 45 mph or above at night. The contact stated that the headlights were flashing oncoming drivers. The contact had to deactivate the feature. Additionally, while driving on two occasions using the adaptive cruise control, the vehicle was braking hard. The contact was concerned about being rear-ended. There were no warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer, where it was diagnosed that the vertical mounting of the radar sensor was slightly off. The dealer leveled the system. The vehicle was repaired, but the failure recurred. The manufacturer was contacted and opened a case. The approximate failure mileage was 99.

While driving at night even with no traffic ahead, the automatic high beams rarely turn on. When they do, they turn off almost immediately due to reflections from road signs and even small road markers. Occasionally, they'll fail to dim in a timely fashion or will flash causing other drivers to think I'm doing this on purpose. Other owners of 2020 and 2021 Honda Ridgelines are reporting the same useless and unsafe operation. I owned 2017 and 2019 Honda Ridgelines with automatic high beams and the feature worked reasonably well. From 2017-2019, Honda used a dedicated camera for the automatic high beam function. For the 2020 model year, Honda eliminated this camera and merged the automatic high beam functionality into the "multi-purpose camera unit" that is also used for other functions such as the lane keeping assist system feature of Honda sensing. In short, the new automatic high beam system is not only useless, but offensive to other drivers. I'm afraid the flashing will induce road rage or gain unwanted attention from law enforcement officers. For now, I have disabled the automatic high beam system. The 2021 Ridgeline's headlights are already a step backwards according to iihs testing (and my own observations) and I feel like the "high beam assist' credit they apply should be removed since this feature is next to useless since the 2020 model year.

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When driving on a highway, the auto dimming high beam headlight system often fails to dim the high beams when an oncoming vehicle is approaching - often causing the oncoming driver to "flash" his high beams in anger. The system will also dim the high beams when it shouldn't. - when there's no vehicle ahead of you at all. The dealership has been unable to find a fix for the problem. I find other owners complaining of the same problem here. . . Read more...

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The headlights are border line suicidal - they do not light up anything reflective on the road and no signs are reflected either. The headlights are super weak and I can't drive this truck at night.

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The contact owns a 2006 Honda Ridgeline. The contact stated while driving at various speeds the fuel pedal had became stuck causing the engine to stall. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer who diagnosed that the fuel relay was faulty and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. Also, the key would not open the front driver side door and the anti theft alarm continued to erroneously activate. The cause of the failure was not determined. Also, while operating the vehicle the front headlights were extremely dem. While inspecting the lights smoke and charring was present inside both the driver side and passenger side headlight assemblies. The cause of the failures were not determined. The failure mileage was 199,000.

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Low beam headlights are inadequate. Can't see farther than three [3] car lengths ahead.

Terribly poor headlight low beams on rtl model. Scary to drive at night! very different than dealer demo Ridgeline that we test drove.

On the inside of the headlight lens assembly, there is dust/dirt/debris probably occurring during manufacture/storing/shipping/and or assembly that I can not get Honda to take seriously. The last I was told was by my case manager kathryn ext. #117742 that the owner of ferndale Honda ( charlie ) pulled a brand new one into the shop and it too had the same debris. Kathryn said "well it must be standard then". Anything that takes away from a vehicles lighting ability can not be a good thing and I can not seem to get them to care of it on my own. What I would like are these lenses cleaned on the inside or new ones installed but according to them, they will come exactly like the ones I have on. My Honda case # is 05025973, again my case manager is kathryn ext# 117742 at 1 800 999-1009 the factory rep. ( willie ) has stood me up twice at the dealership and the last time told me to tell the dealer to replace what I would like but the dealers owner ( charlie ) 21350 woodward Ave. (ferndale Honda) ferndale,michigan 1 248 548-6300 was afraid that if willie did not order it, that Honda would not pay. I even called kathryn again and told her this and she said she would have the factory rep. ( wille ) call me and set up a new appointment. It has been over two months since I have been back to the dealer and am still waiting for willie to call. The owner ( charlie agrees with me that the debris is on the inside of the lens and it is not right but his hands are tied. Maybe if you people there think debris on the inside of a new vehicles lens is a bad thing, maybe they might listen to you. I just want the lights as bright as possible from the factory and this can not be as bright as they could get, free of debris I would think would be as bright as they could get but that is just mine and charlie's opinion so far. This has been ongoing since 08/17/2016 I believe. Thank you for your time.

I own 2006 Ridgeline my radio back-light keeps coming off and on when I turn on the headlights it goes out when you turn the headlights off it comes on. Sometimes when driving the light will flicker then it will come and stay on, cannot see the time now I have no light.

Parking lamps will not stay continuously illuminated. They are controlled by the headlamp timer and turn off within 5-10 minutes of exiting the vehicle. This has created a dangerous condition when the vehicle was intentionally parked for an extended time on a two lane country road. It was almost hit by other vehicles every time the parking lights went off. My dealer has confirmed this design condition and was told by Honda that in order for the parking lights to remain on, the key must in the vehicle and the ignition turned "on". In this mode, the vehicle could not be left unattended. In my opinion, both conditions create unnecessary dangerous or risky conditions and should be corrected by Honda.

Head lights burn out about every eight thousand miles.

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