2015 Honda FIT
This year drew an ordinary 282 complaints for a Honda FIT — the model's median is 134. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.2% of them mention starter, against 2.1% across the other years of this generation.
First year of a new generation. The Honda FIT was redesigned for 2015. 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.
| Complaints filed | 282 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 134 |
| Involving a crash | 12 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 34 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- starter — 8.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.1% across the other years of this generation (4×). Owners wrote it as: starter, keyless, started car.
- button — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: button, engine start, start button, keyless start.
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
HELLO, THE CAR WON'T START. IT'S A KEYLESS START BUTTON. BUTTON, PANEL, MUSIC, LIGHTS AND ALL START. EVERYTHING'S NORMAL BUT THE CAR WON'T START OR TURN OVER. I LOWER THE HANDBRAKE, PRESS DOWN ON THE BRAKE AND PRESS THE STARTER BUTTON BUT CAN'T GET THE ENGINE…
WHILE DRIVING ON THE INTERSTATE AT APPX 65 MILES PER HOUR DURING THE EVENING OF 2/14, ALL THE WARNING LIGHTS ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL BRIEFLY LIT THEN SHUT-OFF. THE ENGINE ALSO SHUT DOWN CAUSING ME TO PULL TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND ATTEMPT TO RESTART. AFTER D…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V574000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 15V697000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 15V559000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 14V563000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
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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