2012 Honda FIT
This year drew an ordinary 113 complaints for a Honda FIT — the model's median is 176. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.8% of them mention despite, against 2.4% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Honda FIT, which began in 2009 and ran to 2013. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 113 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 176 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Recalls | 11 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 30 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- despite — 8.8% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the other years of this generation (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: despite, symptoms, older, rapid.
- hitting — 8.8% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the other years of this generation (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: hitting, toward, nearly, both times.
- myself — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the other years of this generation (4.2×). Owners wrote it as: myself, size, every day, plan.
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
2012 HONDA FIT. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARDS TO VEHICLE EXTREME WIND SENSITIVITY. *SMD THE CONSUMER STATED WHILE DRIVING 70 MPH IN DRY CONDITIONS, WITH A STRONG WIND HITTING THE SIDE OF THE VEHICLE FROM THE EAST, ALL OF SUDDEN A GUST NEARLY RIPPED THE STEERING W…
I JUST STARTED DRIVING MY CAR LONGER DISTANCES TO WORK AND MY NECK AND SHOULDERS ARE KILLING ME. UPON FURTHER RESEARCH IT IS BECAUSE OF A TERRIBLE DECISION FOR "SAFETY" HOW CAN IT BE SAFETY WHEN DRIVING EVERY DAY INJURES YOUR BACK AND NECK. I TURNED THE HEAD R…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V661000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V268000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V500000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V502000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V378000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V545000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V042000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V030000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 11. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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