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Seat belt or retractor failure on the 2021 Honda Civic

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 0
Typical repair $200–$900
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 41st

When seat belt or retractor failure gets reported

There are 1 report of seat belt or retractor failure on the 2021 Honda Civic. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 41st 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

Putting it right typically runs $200–$900 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.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 24 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2018, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 1998 at 230,000 miles.

By volume the 2002 carries the most reports, with 39; the 2021 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 seat belt or retractor failure 224k
  2. 1997 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  3. 1998 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 230k
  4. 1999 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 145k
  5. 2000 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 96k
  6. 2001 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 100k
  7. 2002 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 64k
  8. 2003 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 107k
  9. 2004 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 99k
  10. 2005 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 100k
  11. 2006 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 60k
  12. 2007 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 100k
  13. 2008 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 56k
  14. 2009 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 45k
  15. 2010 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 71k
  16. 2011 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 50k
  17. 2012 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 23k
  18. 2013 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 13k
  19. 2014 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 19k
  20. 2015 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 43k
  21. 2016 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 13k
  22. 2017 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 11k
  23. 2018 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 10k
  24. 2019 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 16k
  25. 2020 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  26. 2021 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  27. 2022 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 18k
  28. 2023 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  29. 2024 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure 22k
  30. 2025 Honda Civic seat belt or retractor failure
    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 2021 Honda Civic

Other steering problem

31 reports median 58k

Other driver assistance problem

26 reports median 24k

Cruise control failure

23 reports median 18k

Lane keep or steering assist fault

12 reports median 18k

Other brake problem

12 reports median 115k

Other electrical problem

9 reports median 400

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