2020 Honda Civic SI
Complaints about this year name driving far more often than the model's other years — 41% of them, about 102× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 222 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 6 |
| Involving a crash | 15 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
What the complaints were about
- clutch — 16.7% of this year's complaints, against 4.4% across the model's other years (3.8×). Owners wrote it as: clutch, ended, manual, slipping.
- condenser — 12.2% of this year's complaints, against 3.9% across the model's other years (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: condenser, evaporator, hot, quoted.
- assistance — 9.9% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: assistance, offered, rolled, get fixed.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
Also unusual this year
- warning — 23% of complaints, 59× usual
- civic contact — 22% of complaints, 55× usual
- time — 22% of complaints, 55× usual
What owners wrote
THE STEERING IS VERY STICKY. IT CATCHES MOSTLY TO THE LEFT AND WILL HOLD ITS POSITION TAKING YOU INTO OTHER LANE UNLESS YOU YANK IT BACK. IT STARTED ONLY AT HIGH SPEEDS NOW IT DOES IT ALL THE TIME. CAR SEEMS TO PULL TO LEFT IF YOU HAVE HAND ON WHEEL BUT GOES S…
With my car just reached over 19k miles the clutch started slipping when driving on highway, problem continued to become more noticeable overtime. Many drivers with the same car have experienced the same issue with clutch slipping.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda Civic SI was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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