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2018 Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid

Complaints about this year name fuel far more often than the model's other years — 21% of them, about 53× the usual rate of 0.4%.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

Also unusual this year

• about — 17% of complaints, 44× usual
• off — 14% of complaints, 34× usual
• down — 13% of complaints, 32× usual

What owners wrote

There is a fuel pump recall. I was notified on 12/20/23, called Honda to file a claim on 12/21/23 requesting a loaner vehicle due to safety concerns, took vehicle to the dealership to have it inspected on 12/21/23, emailed dealership on 1/2/24 requesting a loa…

I received a letter in October 2024 about an inoperable fuel pump and a recall for the vehicle. However, after 3 months, the dealership does not have the fuel pump replacement pump and does not know when they will receive the part. As a result, I am still driv…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid 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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