- A hidden Honda component shocked owners with repair costs.
- One owner sourced the part from a junkyard after long delays.
- Rising repair costs are pushing more vehicles toward total loss.
Sometimes the smallest parts tell the biggest stories about modern car ownership. Beneath all the tech, safety systems, and modern design, it’s often the hidden components that determine how costly a vehicle really is to live with.
Few examples make that clearer than what one Honda Ridgeline owner recently discovered the hard way.
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If you own Honda’s truck, there’s one part that you really don’t want to damage: the rear floor pan. If you do, and for whatever reason can’t or don’t want to go through insurance, you may be staring down a shockingly high bill just to replace it.
The Price of a Floor Pan
Honda’s official parts catalog lists the rear floor pan for 2017–2025 Ridgeline models at $10,082.22, and that’s only for the part itself, not the labor required to install it.
To put that in perspective, the truck starts at just over $40,000 when new, which means that single piece of sheet metal represents about a quarter of the vehicle’s total value.
That’s wild, especially when you consider that some high-mileage 2017 Ridgelines are trading hands for as little as $12,000. If one of those cheaper examples suffers rear floor pan damage, an insurer will, in all likelihood, simply write it off instead of approving such an expensive repair.
The original poster on Reddit hasn’t said how his Ridgeline sustained damage to the rear floor pan, but says he was able to track down one from a junkyard for $500, plus $400 in freight.
There are some Honda parts outlets selling the floor pan for as little as $6,593.77 new, but even still, that seems like an insane sum for a part like this.
Expensive Parts are Killing Cars
One Redditor speculated that the floor pan may be so expensive because it’s been sourced from an emergency supplier that’s been free to charge Honda whatever they want for the piece.
Others argued that replacing the floor pan may not have been necessary in this case, since the damage wasn’t structural and likely wouldn’t have affected the truck’s safety or performance.
Read: Insurance Companies Are Writing Off Cars Faster Than Ever After Accidents
These soaring parts prices are becoming a serious issue. They’re helping push more vehicles toward “total loss” status after accidents. According to a recent study, 27 percent of cars involved in crashes are now written off entirely, up from 19 percent in 2018.
Rising repair and component costs don’t just affect those unlucky enough to be in an accident. They also feed into higher insurance premiums for everyone, adding yet another layer of expense to owning a car today.
$10,000 Honda… part list price.
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