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Honda Civic 2009

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.46 per 1,000

1.4 times this nameplate’s own median · from 139 complaints filed in the first three years, of 429 ever. 95% lower bound 0.39.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.72	246
2009	0.46	139
2010	0.33	86
2011	0.23	56
2012	0.55	148
2013	0.32	103
2014	0.28	92
2015	0.23	77
2016	0.69	244
2017	0.36	136
2018	0.30	107
2019	0.28	91
2020	0.24	70
2021	0.16	41
2022	4.39	874
2023	1.81	303

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Air Bags 102 complaints

recall notification	16	16%
towed	14	14%
crashed	13	13%

Service Brakes 51 complaints

worn	10	20%
brake pads	10	20%

When it breaks

47% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 33,035 miles, from 294 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

1 investigation covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign.

Pedestrian alert sounds

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

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Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is verified against a published figure.