general problems of the 2005 Honda Civic

Recently I've been smelling gas fumes from under my car every time I have the door open and it seems like it's coming from under the car. But I noticed a few days ago that it's getting worse because I could smell it inside the cabin of my car. Last night I have the windows closed and as I opened my door today September the 11th 2020, the odor was so strong fumes of fuel. Can't this be one of the reason for a car to get a recall? exposed fuel inside the cabin is dangerous, isn't it? luckily, my air conditioning is not working right now or else I would have my windows rolled up and if I smoke a cigarette, the car might blow up. It seems like it happens to Honda a lot because most Honda between 2001 to 2005 version seem to be affected by this. Especially watching youtube, there's a lot of complaints and they are showing how common this is for Honda Civic. What does it take for this to be a part being recalled? my concern is that this is dangerous! is this just part of maintenance even it's a dangerous situation? or isn't it a flaw of the parts being use? I'm not mechanically inclined and I don't have the money to fork 300 to 500 dollars to pay the mechanic to repair this, even though I really feel that this should be recalled because I know that it's dangerous. One spark can blow up my car and I happen to be driving with passengers or even just myself.

The contact owns a 2005 Honda Civic. The contact noticed strong fuel fumes in and around the vehicle. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The contact was made aware of NHTSA campaign number: 07v512000 (fuel system). The manufacturer was notified. The failure mileage was 150,000.

I have a cracked exhaust manfold, I understand several other people have had the same problem. Need to have a recall.

This car has a defective transmission. Unknown to me, it came that way from the dealer. A couple Honda dealerships acknowledged the problem. It first started slipping around 40,000 miles. I had the transmission fluid changed ahead of schedule and the problem went away. This was when they told me of the class action law suit and the recommended fixes. The transmission initially failed at 54,300 miles. Stevens creek Honda cleaned the transmission with a special detergent and replaced the fluid. They said if the problem came up again before 109,000 miles they would have to ‘burnish’ the transmission. What I didn’t realize is that the detergent cleaning was a ‘band-aid’ fix so that the dealership could avoid the more costly fixes they were obligated to perform under the terms of the lawsuit. The car performed normally again. I would have the fluid replaced more that normal during service visits. The transmission failed again at 154,600 miles. Now they don’t want to cover the cost because it is now longer under warranty, or covered by the terms of the class action lawsuit. This is essentially fraud. They did a cheap ineffective cleaning in order to avoid and expensive repair they were supposed to do. I will never buy a Honda again…….