Federal complaint record · Honda Civic · model year 2017

2017 Honda Civic

Owners submitted 575 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 78th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2015 to 2019 compact sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is steering. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Steering · 22% · group n = 165Other · 21% · group n = 161Electrical · 13% · group n = 99Engine · 9% · group n = 70Brakes · 5% · group n = 36
575
Complaint records on file
22,832
Median mileage at the reported problem · 215 complaints reported mileage
22%
Of classified component reports name steering · group n = 165
78th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 39 model years

Steering · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Steering22%

Steering reports

Honda Civic · model year 2017

Reports in this group165
Share of classified reports22%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2016
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,061 matched incidents
This car
2017
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
575 matched incidents
2018
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
715 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 · 149 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 1 of 32017 Honda Civic
Brake performance · 49 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32017 Honda Civic
Electrical faults · 30 reports

Reports describe electrical faults or battery drain

Cluster 3 of 32017 Honda Civic

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

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