2020 Honda HR-V
This year drew an ordinary 82 complaints for a Honda HR-V — the model's median is 107. What they were about is the unusual part: 39% of them mention fuel, against 8.6% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Honda HR-V, which began in 2016 and ran to 2022. 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 | 82 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 107 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 29.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- fuel — 39% of this year's complaints, against 8.6% across the other years of this generation (4.5×).
- stalled — 24.4% of this year's complaints, against 8.9% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: stalled, risk because, occasion, speeds vehicle.
- per — 13.4% of this year's complaints, against 5.2% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: per, camera, mitigation, departure.
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
Honda Sensing dash warning lights come on and off during driving which can create an unsafe situation. The Honda Sensing dash warning lights were for Road Departure Mitigation System Problem, Collision Mitigation System Problem, Adaptive Cruise Control Problem…
while driving on several occasions at various speeds, the vehicle stalled. On one occasion while approaching a light at approximately 20 MPH, the vehicle stalled and crashed into the rear of another vehicle. The contact mentioned that the husband completed cos…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V046000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 24V064000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 24V384000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 26V332000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda HR-V 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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