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2007 Honda FIT

Complaints about this year name headlights far more often than the model's other years — 12% of them, about 31× the usual rate of 0.4%.

First year of a new generation. The Honda FIT was redesigned for 2007. 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

• night — 7.3% of this year's complaints, against 1.1% across the model's other years (6.9×).
• sport — 6.2% of this year's complaints, against 1.8% across the model's other years (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: sport, fit sport, lucky.

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

• water — 14% of complaints, 9× usual
• power steering — 18% of complaints, 4× usual
• mold — 8% of complaints, 15× usual

What owners wrote

WATER LEAKING INTO REAR SEAT WELLS AND SPARE WELL. FIXED 3 TIMES BY TAPING FAILED DOOR PLASTIC SHEETING. MOLD GROWING ON CARPET. FRAME TESTED UNDER CARPET. WATER NOW LEAKING INTO SPARE WELL AS WELL. MOLD REMOVAL NEEDED TO MAKE CAR DRIVEABLE. CAR IS A HEALTH HA…

I HAD WATER COLLECTING IN THE SPARE TIRE COMPARTMENT AND I STARTED TO RESEARCH ON LINE DISCOVERING THAT THIS IS A COMMON ISSUE WITH THE 2007 FIT (WHAT I DRIVE) A HAIR LINE CRACK/FISSURE IN THE WELD ON THE BACK REAR WELD NEAR THE HATCH HINGE ON BOTH SIDES THAT…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 19V182000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 20V770000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
• 19V501000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 06V270000 EQUIPMENT
• 18V268000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 17V029000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 16V344000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 13V260000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Honda FIT 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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