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Model years to avoid

Honda Civic

What it says about you

Opinion

Your first serious decision made entirely on merit, and it will outlast several things you currently believe are permanent. Everyone who has owned one recommends one.

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

22 model years on record, 12,584 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2022 (steering wheel), 2016 (compressor), 2007 (engine block), 2006 (engine block). 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.

  • transmission 2014, 2015 peak 44% of that year's complaints
  • fuel 2018, 2019, 2025 peak 28.8% of that year's complaints
  • speeds 2022, 2023 peak 31.4% of that year's complaints
  • sticky 2022, 2023 peak 30.4% of that year's complaints
  • brakes 2010, 2011, 2020 peak 18.5% of that year's complaints
  • bag 2005, 2012 peak 22.9% of that year's complaints
  • cvt 2014, 2015 peak 9% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 nothing on record 25 complaints
  2. 2025 2 recalls 79 complaints
  3. 2024 3 recalls 241 complaints
  4. 2023 4 recalls 506 complaints
  5. 2022 steering wheel 1,759 complaints
  6. 2021 4 recalls 281 complaints
  7. 2020 5 recalls 440 complaints
  8. 2019 4 recalls 768 complaints
  9. 2018 6 recalls 598 complaints
  10. 2017 6 recalls 581 complaints
  11. 2016 compressor 1,071 complaints
  12. 2015 1 recall 377 complaints
  13. 2014 2 recalls 290 complaints
  14. 2013 0 recalls 316 complaints
  15. 2012 3 recalls 454 complaints
  16. 2011 9 recalls 168 complaints
  17. 2010 8 recalls 396 complaints
  18. 2009 8 recalls 395 complaints
  19. 2008 7 recalls 916 complaints
  20. 2007 engine block 1,204 complaints
  21. 2006 engine block 1,405 complaints
  22. 2005 15 recalls 314 complaints

What does a Honda Civic 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.