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Model years to avoid

Honda Civic SI

What it says about you

Opinion

The fast Honda for people who have to be somewhere at nine. You looked at the Type R, priced the insurance, and made the adult decision you are still slightly annoyed about.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

18 model years on record, 1,365 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2023 (steering), 2022 (steering), 2020 (driving), 2019 (driving), 2018 (steering). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • steering 2022, 2023 peak 94.5% of that year's complaints
  • fuel 2018, 2019 peak 31.2% of that year's complaints
  • condenser 2018, 2020 peak 12.2% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2025 nothing on record 4 complaints
  2. 2024 nothing on record 8 complaints
  3. 2023 steering 61 complaints
  4. 2022 steering 73 complaints
  5. 2020 driving 222 complaints
  6. 2019 driving 356 complaints
  7. 2018 steering 598 complaints
  8. 2017 0 recalls 2 complaints
  9. 2016 0 recalls 1 complaints
  10. 2015 0 recalls 8 complaints
  11. 2013 0 recalls 1 complaints
  12. 2012 0 recalls 6 complaints
  13. 2011 0 recalls 1 complaints
  14. 2010 0 recalls 3 complaints
  15. 2009 0 recalls 2 complaints
  16. 2008 0 recalls 7 complaints
  17. 2007 0 recalls 8 complaints
  18. 2006 0 recalls 4 complaints

What does a Honda Civic SI say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.