2018 Honda HR-V
This year drew an ordinary 152 complaints for a Honda HR-V — the model's median is 82. What they were about is the unusual part: 40.8% of them mention fuel, against 8.6% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Honda HR-V, which began in 2016 and ran to 2022. 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 | 152 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 82 |
| Involving a crash | 11 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 29 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- fuel — 40.8% of this year's complaints, against 8.6% across the other years of this generation (4.7×).
- pump — 11.8% of this year's complaints, against 4.4% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: pump, fuel pump, spot, car 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
I left my car in the Fort Lauderdale airport parking garage for one week. When I came back from vacation the car started, pulled out of the spot and then refused to move. I had to have it towed for $700 all the way to my home in palm beach gardens. 52 miles at…
Still waiting for impeller part to come in to fix fuel pump that is being recalled. This has gone on for months.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V777000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 20V314000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda HR-V 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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