2007 Honda Civic
Complaints about this year name engine block far more often than the other years of this generation — 11% of them, about 5× the usual rate of 2%.
Generation 1 of the Honda Civic, which began in 2006 and ran to 2011. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 1,204 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 396 |
| Involving a crash | 48 |
| Involving a fire | 9 |
| Recalls | 9 |
| EPA combined | 29 mpg |
Also unusual this year
- control — 15% of complaints, 3× usual
- control arms — 9% of complaints, 7× usual
- cracked — 11% of complaints, 3× usual
What owners wrote
2007 HONDA CIVIC ENGINE BLOCK CRACKED, LEAKING COOLANT - HONDA RELATED TO TSB 08-044.
ENGINE BLOCK CRACKED DUE TO MANUFACTURING DEFECT, OVERHEATED AT 60 MPH ON INTERSTATE 270.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V268000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V502000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V378000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V545000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V030000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V346000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 07V399000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 07V402000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 9. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda Civic 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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