2015 Honda Fit problems
NHTSA has received 375 complaints about the 2015 Honda Fit, and 31% of them involve electrical system. Next are fuel system (11%) and engine (11%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 375 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Electrical system 32% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 21 and 1
- Injuries and deaths
- 23 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 47,000 miles 202 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 | 57 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 29 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 59 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 25 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 19 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 10 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 1 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 0 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 0 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 1 |
| 200k+ miles | 1 |
What the data shows
Of the 202 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 47,000 miles. For electrical system specifically, the median reported mileage is about 50,000 miles (55 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 21 complaints mention a crash; 1 complaint mentions 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 2015 ranks 1st most-complained-about out of 13 model years of the Honda Fit with enough data (253 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 4 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.
While parking the car in the parking space, it suddenly self-accelerated, jumped the curb, and crashed into the wall in front of the car resulting in injuries to both the driver (2 fractured neck vertebrae, 3 fractured ribs on right side, and broken left foot) and passenger (laceration to right hand and bruised ribs on left side). The acceleration was too fast for either the driver or passenger to respond. Airbags did not deploy, and the car was considered a total loss due to the extensive damage to the front end.
Car is stumbling on acceleration and riding ruff. Dealer states all injectors need to be replaced with a new style injector (part number 16010-5r1-315). One injector going bad I can understand but all 4 injector in 50,000 miles and replaced with a new style injector, this is a defect.
The instrument cluster that shows the odometer and fuel gauge randomly doesn't appear when I turn on my car. It usually happens when it is cold outside (less than 55-ish). The screen will turn on sometime after driving 4-10 miles. At first the screen will look garbled, but then it will be fine. It looks like a ton of people are reporting this problem.