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Honda Civic 2018

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

0.30 per 1,000

0.9 times this nameplate’s own median · from 107 complaints filed in the first three years, of 754 ever. 95% lower bound 0.25.

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 314 complaints

sticky	83	26%
sticks	80	25%
sticking	50	16%
adjustments	48	15%
wheel sticks	37	12%
civics	35	11%

Unknown Or Other 128 complaints

condenser	42	33%
evaporator	34	27%
compressor	29	23%
cold air	15	12%
civics	13	10%
core	12	10%

Fuel System 98 complaints

system gasoline	95	96%
campaign fuel	95	96%
campaign	95	96%
fuel system	95	96%
gasoline	95	96%
gasoline however	88	88%

When it breaks

44% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 33,000 miles, from 209 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:

11051247 · 11091697 · 11110782 · 11111249 · 11112528 · 11118512

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.