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Honda fuel system problems

Across all Honda models in NHTSA's complaint database, 6,799 complaints involve fuel system. The CR-V accounts for the largest share (25%). The single worst model year is the 2018 CR-V with 608 fuel system complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
6,799 about fuel system, all Honda models
Most affected
CR-V 25% of these complaints
Typical mileage
40,000 miles 2,577 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
141 and 94

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

Which Honda models

ModelComplaintsShare
CR-V1,67025%
Accord1,39121%
Pilot88613%
Civic75811%
Odyssey68110%
Ridgeline2173%
Fit1913%
HR-V1642%
Passport1572%
Accord Hybrid1042%

Worst model years for fuel system

  1. 2018 Honda CR-V608 complaints
  2. 2018 Honda Accord476 complaints
  3. 2017 Honda CR-V378 complaints
  4. 2019 Honda CR-V263 complaints
  5. 2019 Honda Pilot199 complaints

Fuel system complaints by model year

Honda fuel system complaints by model year 0 1,000 2,000 1990: 9 '90 1991: 10 1992: 3 1993: 10 '93 1994: 23 1995: 23 1996: 14 '96 1997: 19 1998: 133 1999: 75 '99 2000: 69 2001: 122 2002: 55 '02 2003: 100 2004: 114 2005: 104 '05 2006: 109 2007: 92 2008: 100 '08 2009: 47 2010: 67 2011: 37 '11 2012: 113 2013: 119 2014: 101 '14 2015: 150 2016: 384 2017: 699 '17 2018: 1,699 2019: 1,294 2020: 306 '20 2021: 123 2022: 88 2023: 98 '23 2024: 168 2025: 101 2026: 20 '26 2027: 1
Totals across all models of the brand. Older model years have had longer to collect complaints.
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Model yearComplaints
19909
199110
19923
199310
199423
199523
199614
199719
1998133
199975
200069
2001122
200255
2003100
2004114
2005104
2006109
200792
2008100
200947
201067
201137
2012113
2013119
2014101
2015150
2016384
2017699
20181,699
20191,294
2020306
2021123
202288
202398
2024168
2025101
202620
20271

Among the 2,577 of these complaints that report mileage, the median is about 40,000 miles.

Complaint counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles each brand sells, so large brands naturally have more complaints.