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Honda Civic 2017

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

0.36 per 1,000

1.1 times this nameplate’s own median · from 136 complaints filed in the first three years, of 605 ever. 95% lower bound 0.30.

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.

Steering 175 complaints

sticky	52	30%
sticking	35	20%
sticks	33	19%
adjustments	19	11%
civics	18	11%
sticky steering	18	11%

Unknown Or Other 166 complaints

condenser	56	34%
compressor	45	27%
evaporator	31	19%
hot air	24	15%
blowing	23	14%
civics	20	12%

Electrical System 103 complaints

alarm	20	20%
body control	12	12%
bcm	10	10%

When it breaks

57% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 23,300 miles, from 217 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

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:

10928084 · 10939005 · 10939787 · 10949684 · 10949691 · 10966396

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.