Honda Civic 2022 Reliability Profile: Steering Cited in 724 of 1,144 Complaints

Background

The 2022 model year marked the launch of the eleventh-generation Honda Civic, a redesigned compact rolled out in sedan and hatchback configurations on a stretched platform. Since the line entered service it has produced 1,144 complaints in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Vehicle Owner's Questionnaire database. This study breaks those reports down by component, mileage at the time of failure, and severity outcome.

What owners are reporting

Of the 1,144 complaints filed against the 2022 Civic, 724 — or 74.4 percent of the top five component categories — name the steering system. Together the five most-cited components account for 85.1 percent of all filings.

Component	Complaints	Share of top 5
Steering	724	74.4%
Forward collision avoidance	89	9.1%
Lane departure	81	8.3%
Vehicle speed control	41	4.2%
Electrical system	38	3.9%

Three of those five categories — forward collision avoidance, lane departure, and vehicle speed control — are advanced driver-assistance subsystems. Steering on its own accumulates more reports than every other category combined.

When the failure appears

The reported odometer reading at the time of failure follows a relatively concentrated distribution.

• 25th percentile: 15,000 miles
• Median: 25,527 miles
• 75th percentile: 45,000 miles

Half of the failures concentrate between 15,000 and 45,000 miles — a window that typically maps to the early ownership period for a daily-driven compact. By the median observation point of 25,527 miles, the issue has already manifested for half of the complaining owners.

Severity outcomes

Most complaints describe a defect noticed in normal operation rather than during a crash. Of the 1,144 reports filed:

• 5.77 percent involved a vehicle crash
• 2.1 percent reported an injury
• 0.52 percent involved a fire
• No fatality was reported

A crash rate of 5.77 percent on the population of complainants does not translate directly to a fleet-wide crash rate, which is much lower. The figure is most useful for comparing against other model years on this site.

Limitations

NHTSA complaints are self-selected — owners who file are systematically more likely to have experienced a problem and chosen to report it, so volume cannot be read as failure incidence in the underlying fleet. Comparisons between model years are therefore presented at a fixed sampling threshold and accompanied by raw counts rather than rates.

Recall campaigns associated with this generation are tracked in a separate workstream and not reflected in the complaint figures above.