2025 Honda HR-V
This year drew an ordinary 42 complaints for a Honda HR-V — the model's median is 107. What they were about is the unusual part: 31% of them mention steering, against 6.3% across the model's other years.
Generation 2 of the Honda HR-V, which began in 2023. 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 | 107 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 27.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- steering — 31% of this year's complaints, against 6.3% across the model's other years (4.9×).
- wheel — 19% of this year's complaints, against 5% across the model's other years (3.8×).
- caused — 16.7% of this year's complaints, against 5.3% across the model's other years (3.2×).
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
•Steering rack •Unstable steering •dealership •no No messages, began while I was on the highway and had to control the steering on the highway. Which can create a accident .
Today while driving my car steeling wheel was super hard to turn and all my warning signals came on and it did an emergency brake on the highway … which was super dangerous.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V744000 STEERING 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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