Honda problems by model
Owners have filed 119,008 complaints with NHTSA about the 17 Honda models with enough data to profile here, covering 214 model years from 1990 through 2026. The Accord draws the most at 31,842, 26.8% of the make's total.
Complaint volume tracks how many cars a make sold as much as how they held up, and NHTSA complaints are unverified owner reports rather than confirmed defects. Nothing on this page compares Honda against another manufacturer. Use it to find the model, then the model year, then read what owners of that year actually filed.
Every Honda model
| Model | Model years | Complaints | Most-reported year | Top system that year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accord | 36 1990–2025 | 31,842 | 2018 2,996 | Engine (18.6%) |
| CR-V | 30 1997–2026 | 21,547 | 2018 3,050 | Engine (17.4%) |
| Civic | 36 1990–2025 | 20,113 | 2006 1,710 | Engine (13.3%) |
| Odyssey | 27 1995–2025 | 17,302 | 2019 1,746 | Forward collision avoidance (23.3%) |
| Pilot | 23 2003–2025 | 13,375 | 2016 2,404 | Engine (32.2%) |
| FIT | 11 2007–2019 | 2,644 | 2007 447 | Steering (19.2%) |
| Ridgeline | 11 2006–2025 | 2,454 | 2017 444 | Electrical system (20.9%) |
| HR-V | 8 2016–2024 | 2,318 | 2023 821 | Visibility/wiper (38.9%) |
| Passport | 8 1998–2022 | 1,840 | 2019 447 | Electrical system (19.5%) |
| Prologue | 2 2024–2025 | 1,660 | 2024 1,413 | Steering (18.6%) |
| Element | 6 2003–2008 | 1,442 | 2003 482 | Visibility (46.9%) |
| Accord Hybrid | 4 2018–2024 | 743 | 2023 291 | Electrical system (16.8%) |
| CR-V Hybrid | 5 2020–2024 | 705 | 2021 164 | Engine (21.3%) |
| Gl1800 | 3 2001–2003 | 420 | 2002 210 | Engine and engine cooling (60.5%) |
| Insight | 2 2010–2019 | 285 | 2010 155 | Air bags (36.8%) |
| Clarity Plug-In Hybrid | 1 2018–2018 | 212 | 2018 212 | Engine (11.8%) |
| Civic Hybrid | 1 2007–2007 | 106 | 2007 106 | Electrical system (32.1%) |
Model years shown are those with at least 100 complaints on file, the gate every page on this site has to clear.
Reading the numbers
Across every Honda model year on the site, electrical system is the system named most often: 13,896 complaints, 15.9% of those filed under a named system. Individual model years diverge from that sharply, which is the reason to read the year rather than the badge.
The three most-reported Honda models (Accord, CR-V and Civic) account for 61.8% of the make's complaint volume. That is a concentrated picture: most of what gets reported about Honda here comes from three nameplates. Bear in mind that a nameplate selling in the millions will out-file a niche one whatever its record.
Of the 119,008 complaints, 8,380 describe a crash, 1,236 describe a fire and 531 report a death.
Most-reported Honda model years
The single heaviest model year of each Honda nameplate, 1990–2026. Heaviest is not worst. Read it alongside the model page.