Coscienzios

Model years to avoid

Honda FIT

What it says about you

Opinion

More usable space than cars twice its size and you will tell anyone who stands still. The seats fold in a way you have demonstrated to people who did not ask.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

13 model years on record, 2,185 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2007 (headlights). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • fuel system 2018, 2019 peak 14.9% of that year's complaints
  • behind 2007, 2008 peak 9.2% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2020 4 recalls 35 complaints
  2. 2019 6 recalls 134 complaints
  3. 2018 4 recalls 115 complaints
  4. 2017 0 recalls 42 complaints
  5. 2016 1 recall 119 complaints
  6. 2015 4 recalls 282 complaints
  7. 2013 10 recalls 176 complaints
  8. 2012 11 recalls 113 complaints
  9. 2011 11 recalls 113 complaints
  10. 2010 12 recalls 183 complaints
  11. 2009 11 recalls 287 complaints
  12. 2008 8 recalls 217 complaints
  13. 2007 headlights 369 complaints

What does a Honda FIT say about you?

Loading comments…

Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.