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Honda steering problems

Across all Honda models in NHTSA's complaint database, 8,467 complaints involve steering. The Civic accounts for the largest share (31%). The single worst model year is the 2022 Civic with 733 steering complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
8,467 about steering, all Honda models
Most affected
Civic 31% of these complaints
Typical mileage
45,000 miles 3,113 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
440 and 36

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

Which Honda models

ModelComplaintsShare
Civic2,59231%
CR-V1,79021%
Accord1,66820%
Odyssey5697%
Pilot3454%
Prologue3064%
Fit2133%
HR-V1822%
Civic SI1402%
VTX13001272%

Worst model years for steering

  1. 2022 Honda Civic733 complaints
  2. 2013 Honda Accord500 complaints
  3. 2016 Honda Civic446 complaints
  4. 2018 Honda CR-V338 complaints
  5. 2023 Honda CR-V326 complaints

Steering complaints by model year

Honda steering complaints by model year 0 500 1,000 1990: 10 '90 1991: 11 1992: 12 1993: 20 '93 1994: 11 1995: 20 1996: 25 '96 1997: 25 1998: 53 1999: 43 '99 2000: 53 2001: 59 2002: 77 '02 2003: 205 2004: 157 2005: 262 '05 2006: 290 2007: 343 2008: 193 '08 2009: 135 2010: 102 2011: 96 '11 2012: 215 2013: 617 2014: 200 '14 2015: 169 2016: 525 2017: 289 '17 2018: 755 2019: 384 2020: 123 '20 2021: 217 2022: 999 2023: 803 '23 2024: 643 2025: 272 2026: 52 '26 2027: 2
Totals across all models of the brand. Older model years have had longer to collect complaints.
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Model yearComplaints
199010
199111
199212
199320
199411
199520
199625
199725
199853
199943
200053
200159
200277
2003205
2004157
2005262
2006290
2007343
2008193
2009135
2010102
201196
2012215
2013617
2014200
2015169
2016525
2017289
2018755
2019384
2020123
2021217
2022999
2023803
2024643
2025272
202652
20272

Among the 3,113 of these complaints that report mileage, the median is about 45,000 miles.

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