2015 Honda Civic
This year drew an ordinary 377 complaints for a Honda Civic — the model's median is 440. What they were about is the unusual part: 44% of them mention transmission, against 3.5% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Honda Civic ran from 2012 to 2015, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 377 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 440 |
| Involving a crash | 37 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 31.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- transmission — 44% of this year's complaints, against 3.5% across the other years of this generation (12.6×).
- cvt — 9% of this year's complaints, against 0.3% across the other years of this generation (28.5×). Owners wrote it as: cvt, cvt transmission.
- fluid — 15.6% of this year's complaints, against 5.1% across the other years of this generation (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: fluid, transmission fluid, cap, transmission plug.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
TODAY I WENT UNDER THE HOOD BECAUSE MY CAR BROKE DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF AN INTERSECTION ON THE WAY TO THE HONDA DEALERSHIP AS MY CAR WAS ACTING STRANGE. IT WASNT ACCELERATING AS NORMAL AND DIDNT FEEL LIKE IT WAS SWITCHING GEARS. UNDER THE HOOD I DISCOVERED THE…
Honda Civic Ex CVT 2 door coupe 2015 It has 117,00 miles CVT transmission problems I went to mechanic to see if I had fluid because the vehicle was sluggish when shifting I was told plenty of fluid, just nasty sludge. I was told I need a new transmission. He a…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V574000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda Civic was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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