Recalls
| Campaign | Manufacturer | Manufacturing date | Type | # of units affected | Date Owner notified Mfg | Recall Initiated by | Manufacturers of recalled vehicles/products | Report Recieved Date | Record Creation Date | Regulation Part Number | FMVSS Number | |||||
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| EQUIPMENT - OTHER - OWNERS/SERVICE/OTHER MANUAL | ||||||||||||||||
| 06V270000 | HONDA (AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO.) | from 07/01/2005 to 07/31/2006 | V (Vehicle) | 1190000 | 08/02/2006 | MFR | HONDA (AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO.) | 07/26/2006 | 07/26/2006 | 573 | ||||||
| Defect Summary | On certain passenger vehicles and motorcycles, the owner's manuals contain incorrect contact information for the national highway traffic safety administration's (nhtsa) vehicle safety hotline. | |||||||||||||||
| Consequence Summary | The language in the owner's manuals is not in accordance with the current mandatory requirements. | |||||||||||||||
| Corrective Summary | Honda will send a postcard to dealers and owners with the correct nhtsa vehicle safety hotline information and with instructions to insert the card into the reporting safety defects section of the owner's manual. the recall began on august 2, 2006. owners may contact honda at 1-800-999-1009, acura at 1-800-382-2238 or honda motorcycles at 1-866-784-1870. | |||||||||||||||
| Notes | Customers may also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty 1-800-424-9153), or go to http://www.safercar.gov. | |||||||||||||||
Bulletins
| Bulletin | Bulletin date | Replacement Bulletin | Item no. | Summary | Added |
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| EQUIPMENT | |||||
| SB-12-049 | 08/24/2012 | 10045681 | Honda: on some vehicles, the blue paint or black paint, leading edge of front fenders and on hood, may crack and an extended warranty has been issued. models 2006-12 civic. *pe | 09/12/2012 | |
| EQUIPMENT - ELECTRICAL - RADIO/TAPE DECK/CD ETC. | |||||
| 09012005 | 09/01/2005 | 10018477 | Why a pc card wont play in the audio unit. applies to '06 civic ex and si models with the navigation system. *nm | 12/27/2005 | |
| EQUIPMENT - OTHER - LABELS | |||||
| 08-040 | 05/31/2008 | 10025523 | Load carrying capacity reduced label for all honda vehicles. *pe | 08/15/2008 | |
Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
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| EQUIPMENT | |||
| 08/20/2010 | |||
| We purchased a 2006 honda civic lx back in late 2008. back in the summer of 2010, the air conditioner just died. it blew air, just not cold air. honda dealership said it wasn't covered under the warrantee, and that it would cost us $950 for repairs. | |||
| 01/10/2010 | 48000 | ||
| Drivers side door seal cracked and split. car has 50,000 miles. the passenger door is doing the same. had to replace at my cost, dealer said normal wear and tear. | |||
| 06/17/2008 | 40000 | ||
| I bought a 2006 honda civic and within a year my driver side visor stopped working. it wouldn't stay up and every now and then it would just drop down. this almost caused me to wreck because i was driving one day and the visor snapped down which scared me and i couldn't see, which is how i almost wreck. it finally came off and because i didn't have a warrenty i could get it fixed without paying over $100 per visor. my passenger visor had the same problem as well and now i drive without visor. this is a hugh safety hazard and i wish honda would do something about it. i will never want to purchase another honda just because of this visor problem. i have a friend who also has the same problem and even though they got there visor fixed after spending all that money it broke again. please can this get recalled!! | |||
| 12/15/2010 | 60000 | ||
| Both visors split open and will not stay up. i cannot use them to block the sun and have to duck under them to view the road. this is a major safety issue! | |||
| 09/30/2010 | 35500 | ||
| 2006 honda civic had 35,000 checkup on aug 23,2010 - on sept 30 the car refused to start after grocery shopping - oct 1 local dealer told me that the battery need replacing at a cost of $1040, including towing. i was told that no the battery problem should not have been found on 8/23 and that it could happen overnight - that there is no way to determine when your car will die! the battery is not connected to the electrical system so nothing shows up on the dashboard display until the system has failed! the outrageous price for replacing a battery costing $79 - $135 is related to the cost of replacing the necessary harness which is burned through by the battery acid. i think this design flaw - so identified, as above information was, by the local service consultant - needs to be corrected and owners warned. if there is no way to identify the potential then how am i to trust the car even when the harness and battery are replaced? | |||
| 09/18/2010 | 50000 | ||
| Incident: 2006 honda civic ex at 25,000 miles the strut & mount failed (2008) and was replaced under warranty. at 50,000 miles the same strut & mount failed again but dealer refused to cover this.(2010) my mechanic advised me to bring car to dealer as this should not occur. reading blogs online i am learning that this is a structural defect not recognized by honda. as a concerned consumer, and, in lieu of the problems with toyota, i would like someone to look into this before it becomes a liability issue. | |||
| 08/20/2010 | 65000 | ||
| Vehicle's audio/radio not working. 65, 000 miles, one owner. radio switches to and from different outputs. only way to stop this from occuring is to shut radio off. once problem starts, it will happen more and more frequently until screen dims out and radio shuts down. | |||
| 04/30/2010 | 35874 | ||
| The air conditioner on my 2006 honda civic failed. since i have a 10-yr extended warranty, i had my honda dealer diagnose the problem (cost $75). they told me that the ac condenser was damaged due to a rock/pebble impacting the condenser and that the warranty would not cover the problem. i had them replace the condenser (cost: $782). it turns out that there are hundreds of similar complaints about this defect for this honda and others going back to 2003. there is absolutely no protection in the front grille that would prevent this from happening again. the design of this honda welcomes debris to come through the grille! a simple $5.00 screen attached to the grille would have saved me $856. something has to be done. i now have to look for my own custom grille to stop this from happening again. it's not if, it's when. | |||
| 03/27/2010 | |||
| 2006 honda civic tires are cupping and wearing prematurely. a loud pulsing noise is coming from the rear of the car along with a vibration that corresponds with the noise. local dealership replaced the rear upper control arm in accordance with service bulletin 08-001 dated february 8, 2008. unfortunately i had to pay for the new tires since it is only a service bulletin and not a recall. | |||
| 05/09/2005 | 15 | ||
| Tl*the contact owns a 2006 honda civic .the contact stated that the speedometer is defective. the manufacturer was contacted and they just took her complaint. the vin number was not available. the failure mileage was 15 and the current mileage is 65000. | |||
| 08/05/2008 | 50000 | 1 | |
| After normal use the driver side sun visor has broke. the inside of the visor apparently has substandard parts and manufacturing allowing the plastic inside to break. the visor does not stay up and becomes a distraction. *tr | |||
| 07/01/2008 | 51000 | 1 | |
| I bought a 2006 honda civic with 50k miles on it one month ago. the air conditioning did not blow cold air from the very first time i turned it on. when i took it back to the honda dealership (it has a bumper-to-bumper warranty for a year), they said a pebble hit the condenser and it would cost $700 to replace and is not covered by warranty because it is considered a road hazard. after reading this website: http://www.topix.com/forum/autos/honda/tq02nf40877b57gf6 and talking to the dealership, i found that this is a very common problem. i feel that honda should be responsible for this part. *tr | |||
| 08/28/2006 | 1 | 11/29/2005 | |
| I was driving my brand new 2006 honda civic ex with less than 10,000 miles on it when the car all of a sudden dies. i was in the middle of traffic and the car just stops in the middle of the road with no warning. i tried to start the car but it just would not start. if i was on the freeway or going into a turn i believe that i could have been seriously injured or i could have injured someone else. took the car to the san francisco dealership (great dealership) and they said that the bolt tensioner broke, how is it possible to break a bolt, it was very thick?. they replaced the bolt and water pumpthe ,car runs fine, but i still wory that that this can happen again at any time. *nm | |||
| EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE | |||
| 09/30/2009 | |||
| The plastic pieces inside the sunvisors have snapped and are now hanging down. this is a safety hazard because it is always in my face. i have a 2006 honda civic si and have read a plethora of complaints from multiple customers with the same problem; some have replaced their visors several times (out of pocket). this is absolutely a design flaw, which is wide-spread across the country. i live in ohio and the summers are quite warm, but not as hot as arizona; many complaints i've read are felt to be heat-related. however, no matter where in the country one lives, it can easily be over 110 degrees in a closed car, which should have been considered when designing these visors. | |||
| EQUIPMENT - ELECTRICAL - AIR CONDITIONER | |||
| 04/29/2008 | 37406 | 1 | |
| The air conditioner in my recently purchased 2006 honda civic was not cooling properly. upon taking it in, it was discovered the condenser had a hole which, according to the dealer, was most likely caused by a rock/road debris. i am forced to pay over $500 to repair because warranty will not cover since it was likely caused by road debris, but upon doing research, this is a common problem and likely bad design on honda's part. http://www.topix.com/forum/autos/honda/tq02nf40877b57gf6. *tr | |||
| 03/20/2008 | 1 | 05/15/2006 | |
| I have had my '06 honda civic in 3 times for the air conditioner. they are saying that a pebble hit the condenser causing a leak. they say that this is caused by road debris, so they will not cover it under warranty. they charge $600 to fix this problem. i did some research and found hundreds of these cases with honda vehicles. this is a design flaw since the condenser is not properly protected against debris like it should be. this is going to continue to happen over and over again unless honda has a recall to fix the problem. *tr | |||
| 09/21/2007 | 1 | 03/08/2006 | |
| When i took my 2006 honda civic lx in for a/c repair to the honda dealer, they told me it was apparently hit by a rock that put a hole in the condenser, causing the freon to leak out. this isn't covered under warranty, and will cost me over $500. they told me to file a claim with my insurance company. i have seen on the internet that this is happening to a lot of people with several different models of hondas. honda should come forward and do a recall due to poor manufacturing of the a/c compressor. if this very same thing is happening to that many honda customers, the part is defective. *tr | |||
| 09/15/2006 | 9000 | 1 | 10/01/2005 |
| Vehicle ac ceased working after approximately 9,000 miles. vehicle was brought to the dealership were purchased where it was diagnosed that a rock has made a hole in the ac condenser. both dealer and manufacturer acknowledged this was not an isolated incident but insisted that ?road hazard? (eg: rocks on the road) caused the component to fail. *jb | |||
| 07/02/2007 | 7100 | 1 | 09/25/2006 |
| 2006 honda civic, air conditioner stopped working. was told by dealer that a pebble hit the condenser, not covered by warranty, charged $525 for repair. a quick search on the internet found several similar problems. this seems to be a design flaw that needs to be addressed. *tr | |||
| 06/06/2007 | 22 | 1 | 10/20/2006 |
| I have a 2006 honda civic which i had purchase in october 20 06, which i' had only for 8 months. i get in my vehicle to turn the air condition on, and on june 6, 2008 and found out that it only blew out hot air. i am very upset knowing that a vehicle which was not even a year old and because of some so call pebble that get up in the condenser which made it unable to function and on top of that for honda to be number one for good value with there cars. weren't his was an on going occuring problem with these civic why aren' they considered as a recall, because so many peopl had thiis problem and had to pay out of there pocket whichwas not their fault. *ak | |||
| 05/10/2007 | 16000 | 1 | 06/21/2006 |
| The 2006 civic air conditioner (a/c) stopped workingat only 16,000 miles. the dealer stated that the a/c condenser was punctured by road debris and that it was my responsibilty to pay the $575 for the repair. honda america avoided the issue, and stated the same. after reviewing internet forums it appeared that this was a major design flaw that the a/c condenser unit was not protected and was vulnerable to damage easily. i wasvery upset that honda had not acted with good business practices, and wastrying to avoid the matter. *ak | |||
| 10/01/2006 | 3500 | 1 | |
| Honda common sense failure. honda places their air conditioner (a/c) condenser at the front of the vehicle with no protection, ie a screen to deflect pebbles, resulting in an easy target for pebbles to puncture the fragile condenser tube. this is obviously a widespread issue that honda is refusing to deal with. the service representative said that in his three years working for honda, he personally has dealt with about 100 of these failures. however. he did not see this as a problem and likened the failure to a chipped windshield. keep in mind that this is at a single dealership, with a single representative among several. during common, everyday, freeway driving, $657 damage should not be considered in the same category as a chipped windshield. the windshield is a protective device, and therefore deflecting pebbles and other road hazards is expected. i don't think the a/c condenser should fall under the same category as my former honda dealer has implied. nothing has been done to remedy this situation except to be recommended to make it an insurance claim or pay the $657 out of pocket. a $657 repair may be expected when buying a used vehicle, but when this sort of damage is sustained during everyday driving within the 1st year of purchasing a new vehicle and is not the result of negligence by the driver, it should absolutely not be tolerated. recall. *ak | |||
| 01/12/2007 | 1 | ||
| Ac not working - service department says condenser on my 06 civic was damaged by road hazard. *nm | |||
| 10/25/2006 | 18000 | 1 | 10/30/2005 |
| I own a 2006 honda civic and last fall my ac stopped working. i took it to the dealer from which i purchased the vehicle and was told a pebble had gone through the open grill and damaged the condenser. they showed me the damage which is almost not noticeable. very light and certainly shouldn't be enough to cause the ac to stop working. this is poor design. there are numerous complaints on various websites about this problem. and, it seems, it is not confined to just the civic but with several honda vehicles. the dealer refused to cover under warranty and told me to go to my insurance company. hogwash. i'm not going to pay a high deductible or the $700 repair bill. i am going to fight honda on this one, and i hope other honda owners will step up to the plate. *nm | |||
| 07/01/2006 | 1 | 10/01/2005 | |
| Dt*: the contact stated the vehicles air conditioning ventilation blew hot air on the passenger side, whether the air conditioning was on. also, the odometer and the trip gauge did not keep the simultaneous mileage. | |||