Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIRES | |||
| 09/06/2010 | |||
| Honda civic - 2007 hybrid - needs new control arms as the tires are unsafe to drive - apparently this is happening a lot, i'm surprised there is not a recall yet. i've got 70k miles and finishing my 2nd set of rear tires already - they refuse to correct at no cost, even though they've even put out a service bulletin. | |||
| 06/25/2010 | 21351 | ||
| 2007 honda civic hybrid very rapid inside edge tire wear. at 21k we need 3rd set of tires for loud excessive noise at 25-65 mph and even slow turning . have had our honda dealer install the new c marked control arms and alignment done also at 13k. honda rep looked at car today with 21k said all is ok and is to honda specs. this is not my idea of a car that is made correctly or in anyone's spec's antwhere in the real automotive world ! really 3 sets of tires in 21k miles normal that takes alot of ignorance on honda's part. a stressfull waiting game for the tire's to blow out, heaven knows you will not hear tires go with all the noise from them. just hope were able to control car and no one gets hurt. | |||
| 04/30/2009 | 10000 | 1 | |
| Tires wear out , due to weak stabilizer bars on rear end, honda replaced the stabilizer's, and aligned car, however don't pay to replace tires, only way to know you have a problem is to take car to dealer, if you get you service anywhere else, you don't know you have a problem. i took car in for oil change and got the word about the service bulletin. *tr | |||
| 04/15/2008 | 26000 | 1 | |
| I have a 2007 honda civic hybrid with tire problems. i have taken my car to the dealer twice with complaints about uneven tire wear and poor handling and have been assured that i am imagining everything. the tires that have been on the rear the longest have signs of separation and very different wear than those that have been on the front the longest. there is a definite problem with handling when the worn tires are on the front but my honda service manager says nothing is wrong with the tires. i even wrote honda hq and received a response that they know of no problem with the cheap bridgestone tires being put on these cars. i have read online in forum and blogs there are 100's of civic hybrid owners like me that are facing the same issue. *tr | |||
| TIRES - PRESSURE MONITORING AND REGULATING SYSTEMS | |||
| 09/07/2010 | 33000 | ||
| I bought a new 2007 honda civic hybrid from a certified honda dealership. the design flaw of the rear tire arms of the vehicle caused the tire arm to rub on the tires of the car until the tires were nearly bald causing the car to shutter and the structure of the tires to weaken endangering me and my passengers. when i took the car to honda, i was forced to replace the tires prematurely 2 times since owning the car due to the irregular wear on the tires. honda did not notify me of the problem, refused to pay for new tires but finally admitted after the second pair of tires were rubbed bald, that the tire arm of the car was causing damage to the tires. they repaired the tire arm, but would not pay for new tires. the transmission of the car is also flawed in design. occasionally when accelerating, the gas pedal of the car can be pushed to the floor and the car will not continue to accelerate and will loose power. this has happened at stop lights, entering the freeway, and going up hills endangering my life and the lives of my passengers. honda again, did not notify me of the problem, but told me when i brought the car in after experiencing the problems that i needed an upgrade to my computer and that those upgrades may fix the problem. those updates to the computers effect the battery of the hybrid part of the car's engine. those batteries are loosing the ability to hold a charge and causing the transmission to fail because the car relies on that battery power to run the engine. the gas mileage of the car has also been steadily declining. when the car was new, it got 45 mpg and honda advertised it get 50 mpg, the car now gets around 33 mpg. the computer updates are changing the way the car runs off of gas and battery power and honda is not replacing the faulty batteries. this has endangered my life and the lives of my passengers because the faulty batteries effect how the car opperates. | |||