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2022 Honda Civic

Complaints about this year name steering wheel far more often than the other years of this generation — 51% of them, about 3× the usual rate of 19.2%.

First year of a new generation. The Honda Civic was redesigned for 2022. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

What the complaints were about

• sticky — 30.4% of this year's complaints, against 8.3% across the other years of this generation (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: sticky, sticky steering, feels sticky, steering sticky.
• speeds — 31.2% of this year's complaints, against 10.1% across the other years of this generation (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: speeds, highway speeds, speeds steering, high speeds.
• feels — 17.2% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the other years of this generation (5.2×). Owners wrote it as: feels, feels like, wheel feels, steering feels.

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.

Also unusual this year

• sticky — 30% of complaints, 4× usual
• speeds — 31% of complaints, 3× usual
• feels — 17% of complaints, 5× usual

What owners wrote

The steering wheel feels sticky at speeds over 15 mph. It is not easy to make a small correction when driving on the highway.

unknown.. Steering feels sticky while at highway speeds. Normal Speeds feel fine but once you’re up to 55-70 Mph you have to force the steering wheel back to center after making a slight turn on the highway (lane assist is off).

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 23V704000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
• 24V064000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 24V744000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
• 26V332000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.

Own a 2022 Honda Civic? What happened to yours?

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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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