2015 Honda Civic

Typical pattern

6.6% of complaints about the 2015 Honda Civic came in the first year, which is unremarkable for a 2015 vehicle — around the middle of the 195 model-years on record. The median complaint arrives at 6.1 yr in service. The most-reported system is power train (176 complaints), typically at 7.4 yr or about 85,000 miles.

Complaints: 488
Median age at failure: 6.1 yr
Median mileage: 46,000 n=261
Crash / fire / tow: 17% of reports
Safety recalls: 1

When each system is reported — middle 50% of complaints

System

0y2y4y6y8y10y12y14y

Power train

176 reports · 85,000 mi

7.4 yr

Other

58 reports · 37,700 mi

6.1 yr

8.6%

Air bags

57 reports · 45,000 mi

4.8 yr

38.6%

Engine

31 reports · 14,000 mi

5.7 yr

16.1%

Electrical system

27 reports · 32,000 mi

6.1 yr

3.7%

Steering

21 reports · 12,250 mi

5.3 yr

23.8%

Speed control

20 reports · 60,796 mi

5.2 yr

30%

Structure

18 reports · 18,000 mi

4.8 yr

11.1%

Safety recalls — NHTSA campaigns

15V574000 2015-09-15

Power train:automatic transmission:control module (tcm/pcm/tecm)

Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain model year 2014-2015 Civic vehicles manufactured January 16, 2014, to November 6, 2014 and 2015 Fit vehicles manufactured March 12, 2014, to May 12, 2015. The software settings that control the transmission operation may result in damage to the transmission drive pulley shaft.

If the transmission drive pulley shaft is damaged, it may break, and the vehicle may lose acceleration or the front wheels may lock up while driving, increasing the risk of a crash.

In owners’ own words

Air bags 3,500 mi 8 mo in service crash / fire / tow

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS 2015 HONDA CIVIC. WHILE DRIVING 10 MPH, THE DRIVER SIDE TIRE STRUCK A BUMP AND THE VEHICLE CRASHED INTO A CLIFF. THE AIR BAGS DEPLOYED. A POLICE REPORT WAS NOT FILED. THE DRIVER SUSTAINED INJURIES TO HIS HEAD AND ARM THAT REQUIRED MEDICAL ATTENTION. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A DEALER WHERE IT WAS NOT DIAGNOSED, BUT WAS REPAIRED BY THE INSURANCE COMPANY. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 3,500. UPDATED 10/26/15. *JB

Air bags 5,000 mi 1.3 yr in service crash / fire / tow

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2015 HONDA CIVIC. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE PARKING, THE AIR BAGS INADVERTENTLY DEPLOYED CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO CRASH INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE. A POLICE REPORT WAS FILED. IT WAS UNKNOWN IF THERE WERE ANY INJURIES REPORTED. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 5,000. UPDATED 02/23/16*LJ

Air bags 18,000 mi 1.8 yr in service crash / fire / tow

WE WERE STOPPED IN TRAFFIC, SEAT BELTS WERE FASTENED, TURN SIGNAL ON, AND WE WERE REAR-ENDED BY A WORK VAN MOVING AT VERY HIGH SPEED. OUR CAR WAS TOTALED. THE FRONT SEATS WERE BROKEN DUE TO THE IMPACT. NO AIRBAGS DEPLOYED. NOT FRONT, NOT SIDE.

Speed control 967 mi 3 mo in service

WITH THE MANUAL TRANSMISSION, WHEN GEARING DOWN, DEPRESSING THE CLUTCH DOES NOT DISENGAGE THE CRUISE CONTROL, SO WHEN YOU RELEASE THE CLUTCH, THE VEHICLE RESUMES THE ORIGINAL CRUISE SET SPEED WITHOUT PRESSING THE "RESUME" BUTTON ON THE STEERING WHEEL. WHEN WE TOOK THE VEHICLE BACK TO THE DEALER, THEY TOLD US IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK THAT WAY. I HAVE BEEN DRIVING MANUAL TRANSMISSION VEHICLES FOR 30 YEARS, AND IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT DEPRESSING EITHER THE CLUTCH OR BRAKE SHOULD DISENGAGE THE CRUISE CONTROL. *TR

Other Civic 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.