Total Complaints
2 filings
HONDA HONDA · model year
2 NHTSA complaints. A VIN lookup is required to determine whether a specific vehicle has an unrepaired recall.
NHTSA overall rating
Not crash-tested
New Car Assessment Program
The 1983HONDAHONDA carries 2 consumer safety complaints in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database for this specific model-year cohort. Within that volume, owners reported 0 crashes, 0 fires, 0 injuries, and 0 fatalities. No NCAP 5-star crash-test rating is available for this model year in the federal database.
The most frequently selected component label in reports for the 1983 HONDA is structure:frame and members with 1 filings, followed by tires (1). Complaint categories reflect owner reports and intake categorization; they do not establish a defect pattern or cause.
NHTSA currently has 39 investigation files overlapping the 1983 HONDA, and 2 remain open. Owners comparing this cohort against neighboring years should read the complaint-by-year trend as report volume, not a causal diagnosis. Use the related-complaint feed and the official recall lookup when researching a specific vehicle.
Total Complaints
2 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| STRUCTURE:FRAME AND MEMBERS | 1 |
| TIRES | 1 |
I'VE HAD TWO AVON VENOM MOTORCYCLE TIRES AND BOTH OF THEM DRY ROTTED. THE FIRST WITH 4K MILES AND THE SECOND WITH ONLY 1K MILES. THE FIRST TIRE WAS REPLACED WITH THE SECOND TIRE. NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE WITH THE SECOND TIRE. *TR
BROKEN FRAME ON MY 1983 HONDA CB1000C MOTORCYCLE. *AK
Mileage: 67,747
Inaccurate Rear Passenger Seat Belt Warning Status
Loss of braking force
No Restart After Auto Start/Stop Engages
Engine failure
Rear Differential Seizure
Data vintage: August 2026. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Every figure on PlainCars is rendered directly from NHTSA complaint and safety data, no number is typed in by an editor. This year-specific record is rendered from NHTSA ODI, recall, and NCAP rows for the 1983 HONDA HONDA; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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