Recall Register

Honda Insight: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 24 recall campaigns for the Honda Insight, model years 2000 to 2022. NHTSA has 515 complaints on file for this model line. 10 of the 16 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. 20001
  2. 20012
  3. 20021
  4. 20030
  5. 20040
  6. 20050
  7. 20061
  8. 201010
  9. 201110
  10. 20128
  11. 20136
  12. 20143
  13. 20198
  14. 20206
  15. 20213
  16. 20223
Honda Insight: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2022 Honda Insight33299%2,593,698
2021 Honda Insight32578%876,844
2020 Honda Insight63196%4,114,970
2019 Honda Insight898304%4,768,003
2014 Honda Insight3516%3,597,148
2013 Honda Insight645140%4,309,570
2012 Honda Insight859183%5,290,312
2011 Honda Insight1041127%8,011,256
2010 Honda Insight10119370%8,011,256
2006 Honda Insight NHTSA page126%1,190,000
2005 Honda Insight NHTSA page026%
2004 Honda Insight NHTSA page026%
2003 Honda Insight NHTSA page039%
2002 Honda Insight NHTSA page11237%440,000
2001 Honda Insight21547%440,375
2000 Honda Insight NHTSA page12475%440,000

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

688 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 Insight: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags181.7125
Engine132.391
Forward Collision Avoidance9364
Electrical System87.260
Unknown or Other65.445
Service Brakes56.739
Exterior Lighting43.630
Power Train36.325
Structure36.325
Fuel/Propulsion System33.423

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Honda Insight, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2018, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Honda Insight, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2016, with 109 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Honda: all 68 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Honda Insight: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/honda/insight/. 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 Insight model years have the most recall campaigns?
2011 with 10, 2010 with 10, 2019 with 8. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Honda Insight model year has the most complaints?
The 2010 model year, with 119 of the 515 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Honda Insight name?
Air Bags: 181.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 132.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Forward Collision Avoidance: 93 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Honda Insight?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.