Honda Jazz Most Satisfying
13 Jul, 2007
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Britain’s Which? Car magazine has named the Honda Jazz as the most reliable new car after surveying 100,000 new car owners.
The survey gave the Jazz a reliability rating of 96 per cent, with owners confirming the car rarely lets them down, cementing the hatchback’s reputation as the number one reliable car.
Richard Headland, editor, Which? Car, said:
“Congratulations to Honda, which has topped the reliability table in most mainstream categories. Honda is setting the benchmark in car reliability and it’s up to other manufacturers to raise their standards to match. Several Far Eastern car makers are hot on its heels, but European manufacturers still have some catching up to do.”
Other Honda’s to top the list in their respective categories were the Honda Accord Euro (large) with 94 per cent, Honda FR-V (people mover) with 91 per cent, and the previous generation Honda CR-V (off-road) with 94 per cent and Honda Civic (medium) with 94 per cent.
These highly commendable performances across the range has significantly contributed to Honda’s position on top of the ladder, placing first for most reliable manufacturer with an overall rating of 86 per cent.
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July 13th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
I think the Honda Jazz is most reliable because its probably mostly purchased by old retiring people. People who might break their back accelerating fast, and skin will flap around at speeds higher than 50k’s/h. As a result the car will never break
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July 13th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Congrats to Honda and the Jazz… but manufacture the same amount as Toyota do with the Corolla and see if they can match Toyotas reliability! Not an easy task. And is the Corolla even sold to the poms…
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July 13th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
I call shenanigans!!
my jazz hansnt been overly relliable!!
30 thou kays, air cond compressor fell apart $2500 for another.
door lock on drivers side will no longer take a key. Had to have remote locking fitted.
gearbox has extrememly noisy cluster bearing now @ 50 thou kays.
and mines a JAP made Jazz, not Thai like the new ones.
sorry honda, its been a good car, great in some aspects… but you ignored my emails about my complaints, so my next small car ( any any rello’s or friends ) will be a swift!
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July 14th, 2007 at 12:47 am
I use to work on Honda motorcycles. They are reliable in some parts, but totally pathetic in other areas of the bike.
My first car was a Honda…. and you know what? The same bloody parts failed in the car too! Which left me stranded on NYE 05-06 (50°C) which no shade anywhere and just roadbase and cement around me. I nearly died.
I vowed to never buy one again. Though I test drove the Jazz. I thought it was okay. But very underpowered, considering what the competitors have with the same sized engine (The jazz might be similar on paper, but it was a slug in real life).
The sad part is, you can never be too sure about all these market research documents. I sort of work in that industry (I won’t mention which organisation) but I’m in IT there. Though from what I see, because we’re all involved in how everything operates I see that questions are worded in such ways that they already expect the answer. So in effect they are indirectly manipulating the results. This is the impression I get. There’s always two ways to ask about something… What do you hate about the dashboard design? Or… what do you like the least about the dashboard design? Both are almost the same question, one will get the wrong answer… the wrong answer being the one that the client that has paid for the research doesn’t want to hear.
Steve
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July 15th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
I got one recently. Just sent for first service.
Initially very sluggish but now that it’s broken in, performance is starting to pick up.
S-Mode has a nice torque’y feel and normal D-mode has very, very good FC with an “8th” overdrive lockup gear for highway cruising.
Personal record was 4.2L/100km from Tullamarine airport –> Lygon Street –> Toorak Street. (CVT auto without revving past 2000rpm(!) @80km/h on highway)
No problems with reliability yet, panel fit seems ok. Although there is a soft, occasional, creaking sound in the front dash at some speeds.
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July 16th, 2007 at 7:30 am
My 1.3 manual as a best of 5.1L per 100km at 100kmh
but has never got anywhere near that again, usually around 7L around town and 6 on the highway. ( not much different either way.)
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July 16th, 2007 at 7:49 am
Yea, 6-7L/100km seems about right.
Never tested at 100km/h though. will do at next opportunity (i seldom use the fwy)
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July 16th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Had my Jap-built manual 1.5L Jazz for 4 years now, and it has never had anything go wrong. The turning circle is brilliant, very useful around town, and my economy is usually around 6.5L/100km around town.
Coming back from Melbourne to Sydney last year, I managed to get 5.2L/100km for the trip with a fully laden car… incredible!
I’ve bought bookcases & wardrobes from ikea, and watched people laugh, thinking that there’s no way those things are going to fit… but sure enough, the Jazz can manage it.
IMNSHO, it is easily the best suburban car on the market.
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August 8th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Well I love my Jazz but it has given me some troubles in the last 5 years - luckily whilst still under waranty - but now we will see as I’ve done my 100K…I might be complaining in a year if it contnues to behave like it has to date:
So far the air con has died twice and rear wheel bearing has also been replaced twice, plus a few small niggles which seem to re-occur.
The Honda people have been very helpful though.
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September 14th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
I’m not all happy with the AM radio on my 2007 Jazz VTi. The radio statics on all AM stations in many locations around Melbourne rendering it unusable at times. It is affected by interference from power lines and other sources. Honda are aware of the problem and say it is consistent with other Jazz vehicles, hence will not do anything about it. I would never have purchased the car had I realised that I would be without a radio so often.
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November 5th, 2007 at 1:08 am
I’m on my second Jazz ist one had a rear bearing failure and now the second car has had 2 rear bearing failures.albeit the latest was at 54K. It seems to be a fault that honda don’t admit to! Both cars had the nearside go first.Other than that the car(CVT)is great, but I think that the high milage I do of 15K p.a. could be too much for the car?
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November 19th, 2007 at 7:28 am
Have loved my Jazz until Iwas told that a bearing has gone at 54k miles. Looking at cost of approx £850 to fix. doesn’t seem alot of miles for amost reliable car!!!
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November 20th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
You guys are so helpful
My Jazz is starting to sound more like a truck everyday. Sounds like rear wheel bearings are shot at 100,000k
Are Honda kidding. What wear would you get in rear wheel bearings with a front wheel drive car???
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February 11th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Ours is less than 500km old now and has only used little more than half a tank of fuel.
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February 11th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
The radio is a bit narrow in bandwidth on the AM band which is all that we listen to. Australia and NZ have 9 kHz of crisp, high fidelity AM radio to hear, that the countries where the jazz will normally land only have 3 kHz.
It would be nice if it tuned above 1602 kHz as we listen to the station on 1701 kHz.
You cant exactly get a radio from repco and fit it to the dash!
Apart from that whinge, everything is great! Well done Honda!
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February 11th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
I still have doubts with how well Honda suspensions hold up through time. I’ve owned a Civic and Corolla before and the latter’s chassis is just much sturdier. Honda engines are very good in power and reliability, and interior quality is alright, not quite Euro but not Korean either. The Jazz seems to have great showing - it has topped so many charts. Just about the whole world loves it, yes, including the US.
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February 21st, 2008 at 3:32 am
Ihave a four year old jazz and both rear wheel bearings failed at 24k,yes 24k.I was told it might be the way I drive or the sea air where I live.To be fair Honda paid for bearings,I had to pay for fitting.
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April 24th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Bought my Vti-S CVT in 2003. It has now travelled a bit under 140K kms to date, or about 27,000kms annually!
Travel mainly in the City with the occasionally long distance trip.
The only problem to date is that a new plastic engine mount was replaced as the original had worn and caused my car to vibrate excessively (it cost AU$150).
Other than this, great car, definitely best car in it’s category.
Space efficiency is awesome, fuel economy is great. And it’s a cute car in the Vti-S spec! Can’t wait for the 2009 brand new spanking model.
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June 10th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
my jazz vtis auto juddered on acceleration had the transmission oil changed and it still juddered eventually after two oil changes and still juddering on take off I found the problem the cvt gearbox has a starter clutch which operates from 0 - 8kms and can cost from $2500 upwards to repair.so if you have one of these autos just beware I sold mine cheap just to get rid of it.
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July 15th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
I have had my GLi manual Jazz for 5 years now and it still going strong. Best car in the world! I live in the territory, have given it some pretty rough treatment over the last couple of years and touch wood, no wheel bearing problems like some others have mentioned. My drivers side lock is starting to play up but I can accept that as it’s the only fault in 5 years. I have not met anyone with a more reliable car than me.
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November 23rd, 2008 at 8:55 am
We’ve had our Jazz new since 2006, and done 50,000km.
Excellent city driving fuel consumption, most of the time
returning 5.5l/100km, down to 4.2l/100km is possible if
you’re not bothered being passed by bus and push-bike.
Nothing has broken, however needed new brakes recently.
Slight shuddering in transmission, required new fluid
after flushing. Done by dealer under warranty. The new
ones don’t have CVT anymore… Perhaps due to longevity
problems caused by traffic light sprint driving here
in Australia.
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