Federal complaint record · Honda Civic · model year 1996

1996 Honda Civic

Owners submitted 305 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 88th percentile for complaint intensity within its 1994 to 1998 compact sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 20% · group n = 75Brakes · 17% · group n = 65Visibility · 9% · group n = 35Speed control · 8% · group n = 32Engine · 8% · group n = 31
305
Complaint records on file
100,500
Median mileage at the reported problem · 40 complaints reported mileage
20%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 75
88th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 20 model years

Airbags · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags20%

Airbags reports

Honda Civic · model year 1996

Reports in this group75
Share of classified reports20%
Component groups on file6
Open the failure files

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Brake performance · 70 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 1 of 31996 Honda Civic
Airbag concerns · 50 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 2 of 31996 Honda Civic
Transmission behavior · 12 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 3 of 31996 Honda Civic

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

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