2023 Honda Civic SI

Typical pattern

20.3% of complaints about the 2023 Honda Civic SI came in the first year, which is unremarkable for a 2023 vehicle — around the middle of the 177 model-years on record. The median complaint arrives at 1.2 yr in service. The most-reported system is steering (57 complaints), typically at 1.2 yr or about 6,500 miles.

Complaints: 69
Median age at failure: 1.2 yr
Median mileage: 36,000 n=2
Crash / fire / tow: 0% of reports
Safety recalls: 0

In owners’ own words

Steering mileage not reported 6 mo in service

Steering wheel is sticking when making minor adjustments at low to high speeds. When turning the wheel, initially there is higher than normal amount resistance that only last for a moment causing a driver to jerk the wheel. Issue keeps becoming more exasperated.

Steering mileage not reported 11 mo in service

I was accelerating from a stop and noticed the wheel became way more stiff than usual. Usually it gets a little stiff if i approach redline, but this felt like the power steering was not working. This didnât go away even after i upshifted and let the revs fall. The steering wheel was sticky, requiring more effort to move and harder to make fine adjustments.

Steering mileage not reported 1.0 yr in service

Once I rolled 5k miles. Steering began to be sticky. Goes firm then soft then back to firm and so on; no matter what drive mode is selected and it happens at all speeds

Other Civic SI model years

How to read this

This is what owners reported, not a reliability rating. People file with NHTSA about alarming failures, not routine ones, and complaint volume tracks how many cars were sold.
Failure ages come from the incident date on each complaint, populated on about 83% of records. Mileage is shown where reported — NHTSA’s 2021 system change cut mileage capture to roughly 15%, so it thins out sharply after MY2020.
Every rank compares this vehicle only against others of the same model year. A 2025 car has not had time to accumulate five-year failures, so comparing early-failure share across years is meaningless.
Fourteen make-months distorted by media storms and mass recalls — Toyota in February 2010 ran 11× normal volume across 33 models — are excluded.
Recalls are manufacturer actions and authoritative; complaints are not. A recall listed here may already have been performed on any individual car. Check a specific VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.

2023 Honda Civic SI

When each system is reported — middle 50% of complaints

In owners’ own words

Other Civic SI model years

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