Recall Register

Honda Civic Hybrid: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 18 recall campaigns for the Honda Civic Hybrid, model years 2003 to 2025. NHTSA has 396 complaints on file for this model line. 10 of the 14 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 20036
  2. 20046
  3. 20056
  4. 20067
  5. 20075
  6. 20084
  7. 20095
  8. 20106
  9. 20116
  10. 20121
  11. 20130
  12. 20140
  13. 20150
  14. 20252
Honda Civic Hybrid: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2025 Honda Civic Hybrid2725%2,414,009
2015 Honda Civic Hybrid NHTSA page0518%
2014 Honda Civic Hybrid NHTSA page0518%
2013 Honda Civic Hybrid NHTSA page0932%
2012 Honda Civic Hybrid NHTSA page11242%248,358
2011 Honda Civic Hybrid614%5,772,919
2010 Honda Civic Hybrid61242%5,772,919
2009 Honda Civic Hybrid52899%4,417,513
2008 Honda Civic Hybrid464226%3,725,787
2007 Honda Civic Hybrid564226%3,762,443
2006 Honda Civic Hybrid755194%4,983,566
2005 Honda Civic Hybrid648170%12,542,757
2004 Honda Civic Hybrid635124%12,542,757
2003 Honda Civic Hybrid651180%12,542,757

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

596 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Honda Civic Hybrid: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System206.4123
Power Train174.5104
Air Bags115.869
Engine78.947
Vehicle Speed Control67.140
Fuel/Propulsion System60.436
Engine and Engine Cooling5734
Unknown or Other35.221
Steering33.620
Suspension23.514

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Honda Civic Hybrid, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2019, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Honda Civic Hybrid, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2012, with 87 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Honda: all 68 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Honda Civic Hybrid: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/honda/civic-hybrid/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
Honda (American Honda Motor Co.)

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Honda Civic Hybrid model years have the most recall campaigns?
2006 with 7, 2011 with 6, 2010 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Honda Civic Hybrid model year has the most complaints?
The 2007 model year, with 64 of the 396 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Honda Civic Hybrid name?
Electrical System: 206.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 174.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 115.8 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Honda Civic Hybrid?
5 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.