Federal complaint record · Honda Civic · model year 2021

2021 Honda Civic

Owners submitted 134 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 56th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2019 to 2023 compact sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is steering. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Steering · 29% · group n = 57Driver assistance · 27% · group n = 54Brakes · 9% · group n = 18Electrical · 9% · group n = 17Other · 6% · group n = 12
134
Complaint records on file
29%
Of classified component reports name steering · group n = 57
56th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 31 model years

Steering · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Steering29%

Steering reports

Honda Civic · model year 2021

Reports in this group57
Share of classified reports29%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

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2020
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
217 matched incidents
This car
2021
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
134 matched incidents
2022
1.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
877 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 · 51 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 1 of 32021 Honda Civic
Brake performance · 28 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32021 Honda Civic
Airbag concerns · 6 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 3 of 32021 Honda Civic

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

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