Federal complaint record · Honda Civic · model year 2016

2016 Honda Civic

Owners submitted 1,061 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 94th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2014 to 2018 compact sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is steering. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Steering · 32% · group n = 428Other · 20% · group n = 269Electrical · 9% · group n = 118Brakes · 7% · group n = 98Engine · 7% · group n = 98
1,061
Complaint records on file
30,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 491 complaints reported mileage
32%
Of classified component reports name steering · group n = 428
94th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Steering · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Steering32%

Steering reports

Honda Civic · model year 2016

Reports in this group428
Share of classified reports32%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2015
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
377 matched incidents
This car
2016
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,061 matched incidents
2017
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
575 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Steering effort · 394 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 1 of 32016 Honda Civic
Brake performance · 138 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32016 Honda Civic
Stalling or shutdown · 46 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 3 of 32016 Honda Civic

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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