Honda City owners log 1 lakh km plus across three Team-BHP threads

Three long ownership logs, each past 1 lakh km

Team-BHP's long-term ownership section carries at least three separate Honda City threads whose titles alone claim the 1 lakh km mark. One is titled "14 years & 1 lakh km with the 2nd-gen Honda City ZX," for a car the owner says was bought in 2006. A second appears in search listings as "3rd-gen Honda City Ownership Review, 11 years & 1 lakh km up" in one index entry and "11 years & 1.3 lakh km" in another, for a 3rd generation car. A third shows up as "12 years & 140,000 km of ownership, 2012 Honda City 3rd gen" in one listing and "130,000 km" in another, for a City first registered that year. The shifting figures across listings are typical of these running logs, where the thread title gets updated as the owner's odometer climbs over the years.

None of the three thread pages opened for a full reading for this story, not on team-bhp.com directly and not through a translation proxy tried as a workaround. What follows is limited to what these titles state and what search engines show in short previews, not the full text of any post on those pages.

What the previews show, and what they do not

Search previews of these threads point to the clutch, the suspension bushes and the 12 volt battery as the parts that come up most often in the owners' updates, and describe the cars in general terms as reliable, with no engine or gearbox replacement flagged in any preview seen. That is the limit of what can be stated here. Specific repair bills, annual service costs or the exact kilometre mark at which any particular bush or clutch plate was changed appeared only in a search engine's own summary of each page, not in text read directly from the page itself, so none of those figures is repeated in this story.

Honda's own recall record on the City

Separate from what owners log themselves, Honda's recall record for the City is public and verifiable. Honda Cars India recalled 42,672 units of the 2nd generation City, built in 2007 and 2008, to replace a driver side power window switch that could malfunction if liquid entered it. Honda said at the time that no such complaint had come in from India and called the move a preventive step, with the switch replaced free of cost at dealers.

On 28 October 2024, Honda Cars India announced a recall of 90,468 vehicles across the Amaze, BR-V, Brio, City, Jazz and WR-V, built between September 2017 and June 2018, to replace a fuel pump impeller that could cause an engine stall or a failure to start. A further 2,204 vehicles that had already received the part as a spare were also brought in for a check. Replacement work began on 5 November 2024, at no cost to owners.

Honda's Takata airbag inflator recall, which also covered the City alongside the Accord, Civic, CR-V and Jazz, totalled 1,90,578 vehicles by one 2016 report, with the City's share of that campaign beginning in September 2016.

What an owner can do

Any Honda City owner, old or new, can check whether their car falls under an open recall by entering the 17 character VIN on Honda Cars India's website, or by calling customer care on the toll free number 1800 113 121. For a service bill or a warranty dispute a dealer will not resolve, the National Consumer Helpline, on 1915 or through its web portal, is open to any car owner in India. Anyone buying a used City with high mileage, or running one past 1 lakh km already, would do well to ask for the full service book and parts invoices rather than take any single forum thread's figures at face value, since without reading the full thread even a well known long ownership log cannot be checked line by line.

Sources

• 14 years & 1 lakh km with the 2nd-gen Honda City ZX
• 3rd-gen Honda City Ownership Review, 11 years & 1 lakh km up
• 12 years & 140,000 km of ownership, 2012 Honda City 3rd gen
• Honda recalls second generation City sedan to replace power window switch, CarWale
• Honda India Recalls 90,000+ Vehicles: Fuel Pump Issues Affect Amaze, City, WR-V, Etc. Motorbeam
• Takata Airbags: Honda India Recalls 1.9 lakh-plus Cars, CarDekho
• Honda Cars India, Contact Us: Customer Care