2019 Honda HR-V
This year drew an ordinary 222 complaints for a Honda HR-V — the model's median is 82. What they were about is the unusual part: 40.5% 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 | 222 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 82 |
| Involving a crash | 17 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 7 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 29.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- fuel — 40.5% of this year's complaints, against 8.6% across the other years of this generation (4.7×).
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
FUEL TANK LOCATION, DIRECTLY UNDERNEATH FRONT PASSENGER COMPARTMENT, WITH BARS ON BOTH SIDES OF GAS TANK.
Odometer display issue-I’m having an issue where the odometer/trip/fuel display is dark when I start the car and then it will flicker on and off.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V314000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 21V215000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 18V777000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 23V046000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 24V384000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 26V332000 AIR BAGS 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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