Recall Register

Honda Fit: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 34 recall campaigns for the Honda Fit, model years 2007 to 2020. NHTSA has 160 complaints on file for this model line. 11 of the 12 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. 200711
  2. 20088
  3. 200911
  4. 201012
  5. 201111
  6. 201211
  7. 201310
  8. 20154
  9. 20161
  10. 20184
  11. 20196
  12. 20204
Honda Fit: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2020 Honda Fit400%1,078,378
2019 Honda Fit600%3,579,271
2018 Honda Fit400%2,818,724
2016 Honda Fit NHTSA page100%25,367
2015 Honda Fit400%193,131
2013 Honda Fit1000%4,652,221
2012 Honda Fit1100%5,632,148
2011 Honda Fit1100%8,259,614
2010 Honda Fit12753%8,356,815
2009 Honda Fit1132240%7,001,409
2008 Honda Fit830225%4,467,354
2007 Honda Fit1191682%6,760,223

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

189 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 Fit: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Steering142.927
Exterior Lighting132.325
Air Bags12724
Structure116.422
Visibility79.415
Electrical System68.813
Service Brakes, Hydraulic68.813
Seats52.910
Engine and Engine Cooling42.38
Vehicle Speed Control377

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Honda Fit, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2019, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Honda Fit, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 98 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Honda: all 67 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Honda Fit: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/honda/fit/. 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
29 Mar 2018
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 Fit model years have the most recall campaigns?
2010 with 12, 2012 with 11, 2011 with 11. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Honda Fit model year has the most complaints?
The 2007 model year, with 91 of the 160 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Honda Fit name?
Steering: 142.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Exterior Lighting: 132.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 127 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Honda Fit?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.