2015 Honda Civic problems
Owners have filed 491 complaints with NHTSA about the 2015 Honda Civic. Drivetrain & axles is the most reported problem area, at 36% of complaints. Next are air bags (12%) and engine (7%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 491 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Drivetrain & axles 36% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 61 and 4
- Injuries and deaths
- 40 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 46,000 miles 262 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 | 81 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 37 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 33 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 39 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 31 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 12 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 16 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 6 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 1 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 5 |
| 200k+ miles | 1 |
What the data shows
Of the 262 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 46,000 miles. For drivetrain & axles specifically, the median reported mileage is about 85,000 miles (78 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 61 complaints mention a crash; 4 complaints mention a fire; 40 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2015 ranks 19th most-complained-about out of 37 model years of the Honda Civic with enough data (256 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
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.
We were stopped in traffic, seat belts were fastened, turn signal on, and we were rear-ended by a work van moving at very high speed. Our car was totaled. The front seats were broken due to the impact. No airbags deployed. Not front, not side.
3 incidents of unintended acceleration - each time I was turning left into a parking space slowly when the engine rev'd and the car lurched forward. The 3rd incident ended with my car speeding through a plate glass window. The dealership assumes that I hit the accelerator instead of the brake. I definitely did not. I applied the brake and was gliding into the parking spot. When the car sped up. The brake failed to stop it.
I drive a 2015 honda civic and I was at a stop sign and started driving, got to about 15 MPH and it felt like I got a flat so I started to pull over and realized I didn't have any power to my front wheels no matter what gear I put it in. There was no warning such as jerky transmission or anything that would lead me to believe there is a problem and no lights on the dash come on saying there is a problem so I'm not sure what to do.