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Model years to avoid

Honda HR-V

What it says about you

Opinion

The smallest sensible thing, chosen by someone who refused to be talked upward. The salesperson tried. It did not work.

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

12 model years on record, 1,802 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2023 (shattered), 2016 (transmission). 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 2018, 2019, 2020 peak 40.8% of that year's complaints
  • steering 2024, 2025 peak 43% of that year's complaints
  • transmission 2016, 2017 peak 32.4% of that year's complaints
  • made aware 2021, 2024 peak 25.8% of that year's complaints
  • wheel 2024, 2025 peak 20.6% of that year's complaints
  • camera 2020, 2022 peak 14.6% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2027 0 recalls 2 complaints
  2. 2026 0 recalls 12 complaints
  3. 2025 1 recall 42 complaints
  4. 2024 4 recalls 107 complaints
  5. 2023 shattered 681 complaints
  6. 2022 3 recalls 82 complaints
  7. 2021 4 recalls 62 complaints
  8. 2020 5 recalls 82 complaints
  9. 2019 7 recalls 222 complaints
  10. 2018 3 recalls 152 complaints
  11. 2017 0 recalls 120 complaints
  12. 2016 transmission 238 complaints

What does a Honda HR-V say about you?

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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.