2017 Honda FIT
This year drew an ordinary 42 complaints for a Honda FIT — the model's median is 176. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.1% of them mention broken, against 0.4% 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 | 42 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 176 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 34 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- broken — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 0.4% across the other years of this generation (19.1×).
- regular — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 0.6% across the other years of this generation (11.7×).
- run — 9.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the other years of this generation (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: run, run out, dangerous because.
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
The fuel gauge on the dash goes blank, especially when the weather is cooler, so you can't see how much fuel is in the car. This is obviously dangerous because you could run out of fuel. The problem has been reported by other honda fit owners and a google sear…
The fuel, temperature and time gauges intermittently stop working on my dashboard. This is dangerous because I could run out of gas. I looked on the internet and this appears to be a common problem with Honda Fits that many people are experiencing. Honda shoul…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
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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