2016 Honda FIT
This year drew an ordinary 119 complaints for a Honda FIT — the model's median is 176. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.4% of them mention water, against 2.3% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 3 of the Honda FIT, which began in 2015. 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 | 119 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 176 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 34 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- water — 8.4% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% across the other years of this generation (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: water, rain, enter, underneath.
- temperature — 8.4% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the other years of this generation (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: temperature, guage.
- outside — 8.4% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the other years of this generation (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: outside, side floor, headlamps, headlamp.
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
Water leak problem at passengers side . Including passenger side airbags area get wet , and sunroof area too . My car is 2016, never been in accident and well maintained, I couldn’t think of any reason to cost water leak . At 5/22/2022 evening time heavy rain,…
MOISTURE BUILD UP IN HEADLAMPS. HONDA CLAIMS THAT MOISTURE BUILDUP INSIDE THE HEADLIGHT HOUSING IS NORMAL AND NOT SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE REPLACED/ADDRESSED. PER HONDA ANYTIME THERE IS A REDUCTION OF [VIN] OUTSIDE THE HEADLAMP IT WILL CAUSE CONDENSATION INS…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V697000 STRUCTURE 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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