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2023 Honda Civic

This year drew an ordinary 506 complaints for a Honda Civic — the model's median is 396. What they were about is the unusual part: 31.4% of them mention speeds, against 10.8% across the other years of this generation.

Generation 4 of the Honda Civic, which began in 2022. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.

What the complaints were about

• speeds — 31.4% of this year's complaints, against 10.8% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: speeds, highway speeds, speeds steering, high speeds.
• sticky — 28.5% of this year's complaints, against 9.1% across the other years of this generation (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: sticky, sticky steering, feels sticky, difficult make.
• force — 18.2% of this year's complaints, against 5.1% across the other years of this generation (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: force, overcorrection, small adjustments, more force.

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

This vehicle has sticky steering. The effort needed to turn the steering wheel intermittently increases, so you have to pull the wheel harder to get it to move, and then it turns too far. This issue is dangerous at highway speeds and extremely annoying at slow…

intermittent issue, but steering becomes sticky;maintaining car in between lanes can become difficult and overcorrection becomes frequent. stickiness can occur at highway or city speeds. Took car for routine maintenance to dealer and they confirmed problem wit…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 23V430000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
• 23V704000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
• 24V744000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
• 24V859000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.

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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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