Anecdotal, but I’ve owned 4 Hondas throughout my adult life – 3 MY-CKD & 1 JPN-CBU between 1998 to 2016 – and aside from a small power window motor issue with one of them (fixed under warranty), I experienced a grand total of zero issues. Could be that I just never kept a car long enough for issues to appear.

The thing that makes me avoid Honda these days is the quality gap between JPN-CBU/JDM and our local CKD. It really is huge. Once I experienced a JPN-CBU model (Odyssey), all the CKD versions felt like rattling junk. I would say the CBU-to-CKD gap is wider for Honda than any other car brand I’ve owned. I wonder if it’s the same for Thai or Indo CBU models sold here?