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Airbag · 1 owner report

Airbag failed to deploy in a crash on the 2019 Honda Civic

1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 1 report for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 2
Typical repair $1,000–$5,000
What it means when it happens Critical
Rank among this year's problems 55th

When airbag failed to deploy in a crash gets reported

There are 1 report of airbag failed to deploy in a crash on the 2019 Honda Civic. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 55th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Of these reports, 1 a crash and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.

Putting it right typically runs $1,000–$5,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 23 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2017, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 1996 at 135,000 miles.

By volume the 2001 carries the most reports, with 55; the 2019 has 0. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 1996 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 134k
  2. 1997 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 25k
  3. 1998 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 72k
  4. 1999 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 63k
  5. 2000 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 54k
  6. 2001 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 93k
  7. 2002 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 108k
  8. 2003 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 63k
  9. 2004 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 10k
  10. 2005 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 38k
  11. 2006 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 81k
  12. 2007 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 8k
  13. 2008 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 40k
  14. 2009 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 45k
  15. 2010 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 90k
  16. 2011 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 90k
  17. 2012 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 53k
  18. 2013 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 20k
  19. 2014 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 165
  20. 2015 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 24k
  21. 2016 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 63k
  22. 2017 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 4k
  23. 2018 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 31k
  24. 2019 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  25. 2020 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 16k
  26. 2022 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 11k
  27. 2024 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash 2k
  28. 2025 Honda Civic airbag failed to deploy in a crash
    no odometer readings given
    —

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2019 Honda Civic

Other fuel system problem

76 reports median 29k

Other steering problem

53 reports median 30k

Fuel pump failure

52 reports median 32k

Other engine problem

24 reports median 7k

Lane keep or steering assist fault

23 reports median 7k

Other driver assistance problem

23 reports median 16k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 1 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed