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NHTSA Safety Recalls

2000 Honda Insight Recalls

The 2000 Honda Insight has 1 NHTSA safety recall on file, the newest reported on February 24, 2004.

A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2000 Honda Insight. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.

Recalls
1

NHTSA campaigns

Owner complaints
24

filed with NHTSA

Crashes reported
0

in complaints

NHTSA crash test
★★★★☆

frontal crash, no overall star before 2011

On a 2000 Honda Insight, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.

1 recall on the 2000 Honda Insight

Exterior lighting: headlights

Campaign
04V086000
Reported
February 24, 2004
Vehicles affected
up to 440,000
Risk NHTSA names
crash
Same campaign
also 2001–2002 Insight, 1 other model

04V086000: the defect, risk and fix in NHTSA's words →

2000 Honda Insight complaints by year

NHTSA has received 24 owner complaints about the 2000 Honda Insight, the newest on August 13, 2015. Owners reported 2 injuries.

In complaints about the 2000 Honda Insight, the component group named most often is the electrical system (29%), followed by the exterior lighting (21%) and the seat belts (13%).

The 2000 Honda Insight's only recall also concerns the exterior lighting.

Where 2000 Honda Insight owners gave the mileage (19 complaints), the median was 51,000 miles.

Component groups named in complaints

  • Electrical System7
  • Exterior Lighting5
  • Seat Belts3
  • Unknown Or Other3
  • Air Bags2
  • Engine And Engine Cooling2

Complaints received, by year

Complaints about the 2000 Honda Insight received by NHTSA, by calendar year
20024
20036
20044
20051
20062
20071
20102
20122
20141
20151

Complaints about the 2000 Honda Insight peaked in 2003, when NHTSA received 6. 42% arrived between 1999 and 2003, the model year's first years on the road.

Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2000 vehicles, the 2000 Honda Insight drew 0.5× the complaints of the median Honda Insight year in the same window: 9th highest of the 9 ranked years.

That makes 2000 one of the three best-measured Honda Insight years.

Honda Insight years to avoid →

NHTSA crash-test stars

  • Overall: none before 2011
  • Frontal: 4/5

The 24 complaints about the 2000 Honda Insight are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.

Honda Insight by model year

Other 2000 Honda models

Newest record on this page: August 13, 2015. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted