2025 Honda Civic
This year drew an ordinary 79 complaints for a Honda Civic — the model's median is 440. What they were about is the unusual part: 15.2% of them mention fuel, against 0.4% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 4 of the Honda Civic, which began in 2022. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
| Complaints filed | 79 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 440 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| EPA combined | 34 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- fuel — 15.2% of this year's complaints, against 0.4% across the other years of this generation (38.4×).
- sunroof — 10.1% of this year's complaints, against 0.8% across the other years of this generation (12.7×). Owners wrote it as: sunroof, glass, looks, looks like.
- active — 16.5% of this year's complaints, against 4.1% across the other years of this generation (4×). Owners wrote it as: active, most recent, system active, before collision.
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.
What owners wrote
Sunroof spontaneously exploded on the highway. Was maintaining a good distance between my car and the car in front of me, so I doubt it was a rock that was kicked up that broke my sunroof. Glass looks like it broke from inside out.
Purchased a brand new 2025 Honda Civic a few months ago. Vehicle was impacted by the high pressure full pump in December. I had to get my vehicle towed to a dealership, and after further diagnostic, they concluded it was related to the active recall on my car.…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V744000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 24V763000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
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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