2009 Honda Fit problems
NHTSA has received 331 complaints about the 2009 Honda Fit, and 31% of them involve air bags. Next are steering (14%) and drivetrain & axles (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 331 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 31% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 26 and 4
- Injuries and deaths
- 23 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 61,000 miles 203 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 | 51 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 27 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 22 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 22 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 25 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 23 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 16 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 6 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 6 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 3 |
| 200k+ miles | 2 |
What the data shows
Of the 203 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 60,000 miles. For air bags specifically, the median reported mileage is about 70,000 miles (20 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 26 complaints mention a crash; 4 complaints mention a fire; 23 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2009 ranks 6th most-complained-about out of 13 model years of the Honda Fit with enough data (110 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 11 safety recall campaigns.
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.
(please know my phone # below is not correct, as your system will not accept an international #, and I am an american in germany). My 2009 honda fit was a sport version. I do not know what the "affected parts" were. What I do know, is I was driving to work; was going to take a left at a 't' intersection (as I had done hundreds of times before); but my car failed to accelerate out of the way of oncoming traffic.
"takata recall" we got into a car accident all the airbags deployed and exploded my god daughter was hurt but not by the accident but by the airbags that burned my goddaughters face (nose, eye and lip) burned her shoulder. A friend of mine was driving my vehicle she ran a stop sign that was not visible due to the lighting and also all of the trees right infront of it. She didn't know of see the stop sign she ran it and got hit front passenger side.
This complaint regards a 2009 honda fit that we have/had owned for a little over one year. Last saturday, when my husband was turning left into our driveway, and so was going quite slow, he turned into a person who was coming straight toward him on the other side of the road. She was approaching by coming up a moderate incline, but well noticeable by any other car that I have driven. We have owned this property for over 30 years and there has been no other trouble in this vicinity.
Tl* the contact owns a 2009 honda fit. While the contact was driving approximately 20 MPH, the vehicle rear-ended the vehicle in front of him. There were no personal injuries. A police report was not filed for the incident. There was a deployment of the front passenger side airbag. However, the other air bag systems in the vehicle failed to deploy with the level of impact. The vehicle has not been repaired at this time. There were no prior warnings. The current and failure mileages were 9,000.
Tl*the contact owns a 2009 honda fit. The contact stated the air conditioner fan operated only at the high level when in activation. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer where they informed that the failure was contributed to the blower motor. The vehicle had not been repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 47,000.