2013 Honda Civic problems
Owners have filed 443 complaints with NHTSA about the 2013 Honda Civic. Air bags is the most reported problem area, at 26% of complaints. Next are brakes (9%) and electrical system (9%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 443 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 26% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 41 and 1
- Injuries and deaths
- 52 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 23,000 miles 263 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 125 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 45 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 28 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 26 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 24 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 5 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 6 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 1 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 0 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 1 |
| 200k+ miles | 2 |
What the data shows
Of the 263 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 23,000 miles. For air bags specifically, the median reported mileage is about 60,000 miles (53 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 41 complaints mention a crash; 1 complaint mentions a fire; 52 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2013 ranks 17th most-complained-about out of 37 model years of the Honda Civic with enough data (269 complaints in that window).
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
A drunk driver hit my car along with six others, and my car spun into the highway wall and totaled the car with an impact probably 40 or 50 mph and airbags did not go off
I have noticed that my honda civic sometimes feels as if you were driving standard. You press on the gas peddal and it hesistates to go and then goes immediately which makes it feel as if you are shifting gears. (used to drive standard). It does this all the time. I noticed that it does it more often when the econ button is on and less when the econ button is off but it does do it all the time. It does this while driving on regular streets and on highways. The car shakes a lot when the AC is on.
Odometer Fraud. The contact purchased a 2013 Honda Civic. The contact discovered a mileage discrepancy after the purchase. The vehicle was a dealer sale. At the time of purchase, the vehicle mileage was 113,000. The contact paid for the vehicle in full, and when the Title arrived, it was later discovered that the mileage on the Title was 224,000. The contact reached out to the dealer. However, the dealer had not responded.