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Honda Civic Exterior Lighting Problems

197
Owner complaint records in our dataset
24
Years with records
1990–2018
Stored years

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 197 stored complaint records:

  • 12 indicate a crash
  • 4 indicate injury
  • 8 indicate fire

Complaints by year

What appears in the records

Mileage in stored records

BandRecords
1–30k mi41
100–150k mi32
150–400k mi30
60–100k mi29
30–60k mi16

Complaint evidence

Latest stored owner-submitted records. Open a year for the full list.

  • December 26, 2019 · 50 miles

    Exterior Lighting · Unknown Or Other

    I bought a honda civic 2016. I notice that my front led light maker does not work only left side work and it is about to go out too. Sometime it goes on as its please. And air condition does not blow cold air . I hope they recall all these problems..

    ODI 11291313

    2016 records in this system

  • August 23, 2019 · 25,000 miles

    Body · Exterior Lighting · Suspension

    I was pulling into the parking lot, when the car started to accelerate on its own! I push the brake pedal to the max and it kept on going, over cement stoppers, grass, and finally a tree stop it from continuing! And i am not a zenior citizen yet!

    Crash reported

    ODI 11252505

    2018 records in this system

  • August 7, 2019

    Electrical System · Engine · Exterior Lighting

    I have issues that have been reported previously and while the vehicle was under warranty. Now that the warranty is out the problem has been more severe. The 1st problem is the display for the radio, heating and cooling and the speed display has been effected some but not like the radio and cooling/heating display. It has gone blank, it has froze up. It has lost all functioning. The 2nd is the air compressor. It has…

    ODI 11242374

    2016 records in this system

  • August 1, 2019 · 66,100 miles

    Electrical System · Exterior Lighting · Unknown Or Other

    My wife and i have a 2012 honda civic which seriously is a nightmare in repairs a lot of maintenance issues involving electrical as well as the car lacking power and the car needing to replace electrical harness due to the wires bing wrapped in some kind of sweet texture that rodents seemed to enjoy to much. Furthermore with the amount of problems we had with his car at 66100 miles i would much rather go back to my…

    ODI 11241385

    2012 records in this system

  • May 30, 2019 · 250,000 miles

    Air Bags · Exterior Lighting

    Takata recall. My airbag light came on and then i saw the recall. My model should be recalled as well. Also exterior lighting is very dull both of these have been previously recalled. I was in park, started my car and the airbag light came on. Scanner says it's the inflator

    ODI 11217331

    2004 records in this system

  • May 26, 2019 · 50,000 miles

    Exterior Lighting

    2015 honda civic; 50,000 miles. Automatic headlights and manual headlights emit a sound from the engine, both right and left sides. In essince, when the headlites are on, the sound is on 100%. Several individuals shared same issue on the honda forum and shared several possible causes. One of which was small cracks in the soder within the module. My concern is when the cracks separate, the headlights will stop…

    ODI 11268200

    2015 records in this system

  • February 1, 2019 · 95,000 miles

    Exterior Lighting

    Vehicles of this type were subjected to a recall back in 2012 due to a safety issue where the low beam headlights would unexpectedly fail while the vehicle was being driven at night. The recall work has been performed previously by honda on this specific vehicle. However, a similar problem has recently started occurring on this vehicle even though the recall work has already been done to it. I am an air force…

    ODI 11193201

    2001 records in this system

  • January 30, 2019 · 44,000 miles

    Electrical System · Electronic Stability Control · Exterior Lighting

    Couple of weeks ago i was driving and the car kept going with full speed flying with no control to stop it . I did get to make the full stop of avoiding hitting the car in front of me . But i did get rear ended .

    Crash reported · Fire reported

    ODI 11192684

    2014 records in this system