HondaCivic2000
  1. Honda Civic
  2. Problems
  3. 2000
  4. Vehicle Speed Control

2000 Honda Civic Vehicle Speed Control Problems

12
Owner complaint records in our dataset

Records are owner complaints, not a measured failure rate.

Owner complaint recordsComplaint records reflect reports in our dataset and do not measure how frequently the problem occurs across all vehicles.

Among these 12 stored complaint records:

  • 4 indicate a crash
  • 1 indicate injury
  • 0 indicate fire

What owners report

  • cruise control · 6 records
  • suddenly accelerated · 4 records

Mileage in stored records

BandRecords
30–60k mi2
60–100k mi1
1–30k mi1

Complaint records

Owner-submitted complaint content, presented as stored.

  • December 20, 2009 · 64,000 miles

    Vehicle Speed Control

    Car suddenly accelerated after shifting into 2nd or 3rd gear. Depressed clutch to disengage engine. Switched engine off. Hit emergency blinkers. Coasted to a stop. Re-started engine. Still revved up. Switched it off. Waited about one minute. Re-started again. Engine back to normal as if nothing had happened. Not much traffic around. This is the second incident with this car in two years. *tr

    ODI 10298341

  • March 10, 2008 · 51,000 miles

    Vehicle Speed Control

    Car suddenly accelerated after shifting into 2nd or 3rd gear. Depressed clutch half-way to try to slow car down without much success. Switched engine off and coasted to a stop at corner. Turned engine on again. Still revved up. Depressed clutch half-way again to move the car out of traffic into a parking lot. Switched engine off and coasted to a stop inside parking lot. Not much traffic around. *tr

    ODI 10298340

  • June 11, 2003 · 54,126 miles

    Air Bags · Retractor · Vehicle Speed Control

    While pulling into a parking space, the vehicle suddenly accelerated and lurched into the air, resulting in a collision. The consumer's foot was on the brake pedal when the acceleration occurred. The dealership was not providing any assistance to determine what caused the failure. Also the driver's side seat belt failed to retract, it was loose. This resulted in the consumer impacting the steering wheel. Prior to…

    Crash reported · 1 injury

    ODI 10080123

  • May 27, 2002

    Foundation Components · Vehicle Speed Control

    I attempted to use my cruise control, and the car began accelerating on its own. I tried to press the brake and to manually turn off the cruise control, but the car would not slow down. Pressing the brake as hard as possible would stop the acceleration, but would not decelerate. I called aaa who called the state police. They recommended pulling the emergency brake. After pulling that and keeping my foot as hard as…

    ODI 763111

  • April 6, 2002

    Vehicle Speed Control

    While pulling into a parking space vehicle suddenly accelerated, and vehicle went over a retaining wall, hitting a building. Cause is unknown. Please provide any further information.*ak

    Crash reported

    ODI 8008185

  • December 24, 2001

    Vehicle Speed Control

    While the consumer was driving, the cruise control malfunctioned. *yh

    ODI 566512

  • November 4, 2001

    Vehicle Speed Control

    Turned key on put car intodrive and car took off did not touch anything. *ak

    ODI 754069

  • February 7, 2001

    Vehicle Speed Control

    Immediately on startup car surged forward with engine at full throttle without touching gas pedal and pedal was not depressed, crashing into brick building 3 feet in front of car . *ak

    Crash reported

    ODI 740608

  • October 20, 2000

    Vehicle Speed Control

    While driving with cruise control on 65 mph car contunied to speed up to 80 mph hit brake took cruise off. On oct.20 turned in driveway stoped was going to back up car took off in drive at least 25mph hitting brick wall of house causing alot of damage to house airbags did'nt deployed

    Crash reported

    ODI 734847

  • July 14, 2000 · 3,000 miles

    Vehicle Speed Control

    Tl*the contact owns a 2000 honda civic. The vehicle had experienced a recurring failure in which the accelerator pedal or brake pedal would intermittently become stuck when it was depressed. During the winter or whenever the floor mats were wet the failure would recur more frequently. The vehicle was never taken to the dealer to be examined for the cause of failure and the vehicle was never repaired. The failure…

    ODI 10348639

  • Vehicle Speed Control

    Consumer stated that the fuel throttle linkage failed causing vehicle to suddenly accelerate out into traffic, no problem with the vehicle was identified after the incident. *tt

    ODI 563837

  • Vehicle Speed Control

    Cruise control was activated and while going up a hill, the vehicle accelerated and continued to accelerate until the consumer turned the cruise control off. *slc

    ODI 557335