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Honda Civic 2019

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

0.28 per 1,000

0.8 times this nameplate’s own median · from 91 complaints filed in the first three years, of 453 ever. 95% lower bound 0.22.

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 112 complaints

sticky	43	38%
sticks	28	25%
sticky steering	16	15%
civics	15	14%
gearbox	14	13%
wheel sticks	14	13%

Fuel/Propulsion System 73 complaints

recall fuel

14%

Fuel System 72 complaints

system gasoline	68	94%
campaign	68	94%
campaign fuel	67	92%
gasoline however	62	86%
amount recall	62	86%
exceeded reasonable	62	86%

When it breaks

59% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 20,410 miles, from 124 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:

11170147 · 11173408 · 11182506 · 11186089 · 11189761 · 11195683

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.