Rear Suspension problems of the 2006 Honda Civic - part 1

Rear driver side trailing arm snapped on 2006 Honda Civic ex. Looks like the part had a manufacturing fault on one of the weld seams.

Rear tires wear uneven in a short time span. No mechanical issue can be found by mechanics. Car is properly aligned. Go through rear tires every 20,000 miles. Very dangerous situation, tires can wear bald in 100 miles after they start to wear uneven. This is an engineering issue. Rear of car jumps when going over bumps and can cause driver to loose control.

The contact owns a 2006 Honda Civic. The contact stated while driving approximately 45 mph, they began feeling a vibration and heard a roaring noise in the rear of the vehicle. The contact took the vehicle to a local mechanic and was told the problem came from a combination of the tires and rear wheels geometry displacement. The failure caused inner edge wear on the tires, vibration and a roaring noise. The contact spoke to the manufacturer and was told that this was a known problem, but the component was no longer under warranty. The VIN was unknown. The failure mileage was 107,000 and the current mileage was 110,000.

I have a 2006 Honda Civic ex sedan. I have experienced rapid and uneven tire wear on both rear tires. I rotated the tires in March 2010 and at that time, the wear was fairly even on all four tires with about 50% of the tread left. I purchased the tires in August of 08. During the winter months I use snow tires. The tires have about 25,000 to 30,000 miles on them. Since March 2010, I've driven the car about 10,000 miles. Now the rear left tire is showing extreme wear on the inside with uneven wave patterns and the rear right tire is warn all the way down to the steel belts. I found out because my car failed inspection. I've also noticed a loud roar coming from the rear of the car at highway speeds. I began to notice the roar in July and took my car to the dealer to have them look at it. They said there was nothing wrong with the suspension and I just don't rotate my tires enough, even after I explained that I rotate my tires twice a year and just rotated them that previous March! the mechanic that did the inspection (who also sold me the tires) said that there is no way that such a sever wear pattern could develop unless there was something wrong with the rear suspension. I called the Honda dealer again while at the state inspection station and told them of the problem and tried to set up an appointment to have the rear suspension looked at. They again told me that there was nothing wrong with the suspension and that the wear was my fault because I didn't rotate the tires enough. Then the dealer tried to sell me a set of tires over the phone! my mechanic said that the rear tire wear presents a very dangerous situation and that the right tire especially, could blow at any time. It appears that Honda knows about this problem as it is described in their service bulletin 08-001. I don't know what to do to get them to fix this dangerous problem.

I've had a problem with the rear tires wearing out quickly, and vibrations when traveling above 50 mph. Yesterday the right rear tire separated, and started smoking. I changed the tire and took the car in and the other rear tire had very unusual wear to the belt on the inner part. The same place the other tire separated. In looking this up on the internet it seems to be a common problem with the Honda Civics and the rear alignment being defective. This should be investigated before someone, if not already, is killed by such problem.

Engine light consistently stays on dealer told me 1st time it needed a computer software up date 2nd time it overheated dealer told me it needed new thermostat. Both times I had to pay for a diagnostic test plus parts & labor. The same day I picked it up the light came on again and stayed. After reading all the complaints on this year and model my vehicle has the same issues (engine & rear suspension) but Honda always has an answer that never fixes the problem.

The contact owns a 2006 Honda Civic. While traveling 45 mph the contact noticed a rubbing sound coming from the bottom of the rear driver side of the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to the dealership where the contact was informed that the failure could not be determined. There were no prior warnings. The failure mileage was 28000 and the current mileage was 33000.

Just wanted to give a shout out to Honda. . . For leaving me freaking high and dry holding a repair bill they created. I know now the problem is well documented. . . Too bad it's people on the freaking internet helping out, rather than Honda. Sorry. . . But it's absolutely horrible for this "service bulletin" to get swept under the carpet and not sent to the owners of the affected vehicles. I can understand why Honda doesn't want to do a recall on it. . . It'd be very costly. However, they should have been required to send this "service bulletin" to all owners, and then they could have the option to change the part if they had been experiencing issues of ridiculous excessive tire wear. I know exactly what Honda is hoping. . . That most of the owners of these cars will find out there is a problem after the warranty expires. . . Like I did. . . Nice Honda. . . Afreakingp'reciate it. I mean heck. . . It takes thousands upon thousands of miles to realize your tires are wearing out prematurely. And even after you replace the tires, you just kinda just chalk it up that you simply needed a new set. It's not until you go through maybe that 2nd set, when you start to think. . . Is it my imagination, or are these tires wearing faster than they should? being that I was a student in 2007, I could only afford to replace two tires at a time. It came out of nowhere how fast the tires degraded. . . Sounded like a damn helicopter was about to land on my roof. . . The rear tires were bad. I replaced the two tires at a walmart service center. Within six months I had to replace the other tires I hadn't replaced the last time. Full circle. . . 10 months later and sounding like the back of the car is going to fall off. Kinda sounds like when you open up only one window (three inches or so) going down the road at 70 miles an hour. . . Bop. . Bop. . . Bop. . Bop. . Bop over and over.

Premature tirewear & tire roar on rear tires. Also premature brake pad replacement on front disc brakes. Original tires replaced at 41,591 miles. New tires have approx. 15,500miles. Front disc pads replaced at 33,489. Car now has 57,096miles .

Excessive tire wear on 2006 Honda Civic. Tires wearing out @ 20000-30000 km. Unsafe handling on snow, ice and bumps. Back end of car "sways" and slides to one side.

Own a 2006 Honda Civic. Having trouble with uneven tire wear on the rear tires. I have had the tires replaced at 38,000 and bought expensive tires for replacement. Now 20,000 miles later, having cupping and needing replacement again. (tires have been aligned and rotated. ).

At about 35,000 miles I noticed that the rear suspension on my 2006 Honda Civic felt "loose". Every time I hit a bump or pot hole the entire rear of the car would fishtail making it difficult to control. It is manageable on dry roads, but any sort of moisture, especially snow, makes the vehicle undriveable. I took the car to the dealership to asses the problem. I was told there was uneven tire wear, and the front passenger side wheel needed to be replaced. They said otherwise there was nothing wrong with the vehicle. I replaced all four tires and the wheel, the fishtailing diminished greatly. However, about 3000 miles later the fishtailing is back, worse than ever. I am taking it back to the dealership ASAP.

According to searches done via the internet and with issues with my 2006 Honda Civic ex sedan model I have noticed a staggering amount of complaints to the 2006 and newer model Civics with vibrations issues and constant replacement of tires for the rear of the vehicle. I have had to replace my tires about 5 times since I have had my car and it has always been the rear tires on my vehicle and 2 times in the past 6 months due to un-even tire wear on the inside of the tires caused by the rear chamber arm. Currently there is no recall for this issue but have noticed quite a number pf people throughout the us with this problem on the vehicle. The outcome of this issue could cause a tire to blow out while driving on the highway and potentially causing great harm to the passengers of the affected vehicle as well as other drivers on the road. If you need to the web links with all the other complaints for this issue feel free to contact me .

Tire noise during driving. Progressively getting worse over 2 months. Found rear tire inner wear (cupping) on driver side. Honda is aware of this problem and is repairing the vehicle. Honda will not cover the tire replacement of pay pro-rated amount because vehicle has over 25k miles. I drive 90% highway and tires still have 40% life remaining.

Tires wear and cup. Major vibration and noise while driving at highway speeds. Newest set of tires have rear tires cupped to the point of needing replaced at 10,000 miles. Company has issued a bulletin on the issue but never informed customer. We thought our first tires were the problem but come to find out the rear arms need to be replaced to try to fix issue. Car is now out of warranty. Winter of 2007 husband did 3 360's across 3 lanes of highway without any warning.

I purchased a 2006 Honda Civic new from dealer with 100k mile warranty. They will not fix this issue. The suspension is faulty, causing the rear two tires to wear out on the inside of the tread within 15k miles. I've spent money for 4 sets of tires so far, and they won't fix it. They acknowledge that it's their problem, but there is no solution. I cannot understand how a company can produce a vehicle they know can't be aligned to not eat up tires.

2006 Honda Civic lx with 20,500 miles. Rear tires are nearly bald. Dealer indicates that there is a known rear suspension problem. Honda notified dealers of problem in April 2008 and dealers are addressing concerns when the vehicles are brought in. My son drives this vehicles to and from college and we bought the car for safety reasons. We expect that Honda will replace the worn tires since it was their defect but the dealer has not offered to replace the tires.

Improperly designed rear suspension keeps wearing the inside of the tires away causing them to be unsafe for operation.

The contact owns a 2006 Honda Civic. While driving 35 mph, the contact noticed a growling sound coming from the rear of the vehicle. The dealer stated that the rear passenger side bearing needed to be replaced. There were no warnings prior to the failure. The failure mileage was 61,000 and current mileage was 64,355. Updated 09/29/08. Updated 09/29/08.

When my tire store showed me my 20,000 mile tire with the steel belts exposed I was stunned-what if no one had seen it? a subsequent alignment check revealed the rear suspension of my 2006 Honda Civic had much more negative camber than is safe and there is no way to adjust it as in other cars-it is a design flaw. Because of the high mileage on my car,it may be a bell weather. I have 150,000 miles on my 2006 Civic and have bought 5 sets of tires that are supposed to last 70,000 miles each. The entire time my car was under warranty Honda did not officially admit the problem or offer a solution. Honda dealers and corporate reps are generally uncooperative and will not issue a public recall and generally have to be pressured to do anything about this substantial problem. Your shedding light on this issue would be a true public service and probably help thousands of people who are not used to dealing with a large corporation with an unreproachable image of public responsibility. There are many more Honda customers like me- this Honda users group will offer more perspective. . Read more...

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Uneven tire wear. Excessive noise from rear. I've had the vehicle 2 years and have had the wheels aligned several times and have the tires rotated as necessary by Honda or firestone.

Rear suspension problems with my '06 Civic lx led to premature tire wear. Have an alignment policy with a local tire store & have it done on a regular basis. Even they commented on the wear and said must be another problem with rear suspension. Honda has a service bulletin 08-001 dated 2/8/08 on this matter. Just want this procedure done to fix the problem so my new tires don't suffer the same fate as the oem tires.

Rear camber could not be adjusted to zero. Tires were wearing out early on inside edge. After market part allows camber to be adjusted to zero. Firestone dealer said this is a problem with Civics and the after market part is available for several model years. Similar statement was made by previous tire dealer in 2006 (30k miles) but unable to order parts at that time.

The contact owns a 2006 Honda Civic. While driving 65 mph, the rear struts punctured the rear tires, causing the vehicle to "ride like an older vehicle". The contact took the vehicle to the dealer and they stated that the rear struts and rear tires needed to be changed. He also received a recall notice for NHTSA campaign id number 07v399000 (service brakes, hydraulic:antilock:wheel speed sensor), which he believed was related to another issue that required him to pay out of pocket. The current mileage was approximately 60,000 and failure mileage was approximately 30,000.

2006 Honda Civic ex, 38000 miles. The 2006 Civic has problems with struts. It causes uneven tire wear and an unstable rear end. The cupping wear in the inside of the rear tires magnifies this suspension defect. We wore out two sets of tires by 38,000 miles. The rear end is loose. The tire wear is not visible unless you look carefully on the inside of the rear tire tread. The car was involved in a severe accident in which the car flipped and rolled. The driver lost control after a corner on wet pavement. With the defects in this model, the driver never stood a chance in maintaining control in a situation that drivers regularly face. This problem should be recalled before any other family is traumatized.

I have a 2006 Honda Civic si that has been through three sets of tires since I bought the car. The first set of tires that came with the car were from the manufacturer and were replaced at 40,000 miles. The second set was replaced at 15,000 miles due to severe tire wear in the back of the car. The dealer does not want to deal with this problem I'm having and just tries everything to get around this. I have read many complaints from Civic owners with the same problem. Eventually someone is going to get hurt if they have a blown tire.

2006 Honda Civic has a design defect which causes the rear tires to rapidly cup and wear on the inside edges in as little at 10,000 miles.

The suspension on my 2006 Honda Civic cannot be aligned due to incorrect manufacturing. This is a problem that effects all 2006 Honda Civics. The problem is not only with excessive tire wear but the handling of the car is not as it should be. What would happen if I tried evasive action while the suspension is not aligned correctly. There is a very big adjustment required to bring the car back into spec (over 2 degrees in the rear suspension). I was told that Honda was aware of the problem but was waiting for enough complaints to be filed to justify a recall. I would have never know that my suspension was so out of alignment had I not gone to a Honda dealer for repairs. .

I own a 2006 Honda Civic sedan lx. I have replaced the rear tires 3 times in the last 50,000 miles. The rear tires cup severely and create excessive road noise. I was told this is due to a factory defect in a rear arm being too short.

We took our 2006 Honda Civic in for service and we were told the tires needed to be rotated. When we left and got to highway speed the steering wheel shook violently and we didn't know what was going on. We kept the speed down and made it to another Honda dealer. We were told this was normal and it would correct itself in about 500 or 600 miles. We left there and went to a tire shop where they took off the front tires (that were rotated from the back) and noticed they both had flat spots on them that were worn down to the cords. We rotated the tires back to get us by. The next day we replaced all 4 tires. The new tires were fine but when we had the brakes replaced we noticed the flat spots had come back with less than 16,000 miles on the tires. We took our Honda in for an oil change and asked about the tires and if they could look at it, the dealer told us about service bulletin 08-001. Service bulletin 08-001 is to correct the tire wear issue by replacing the upper controller arms on the rear suspension. We left the car, and soon got a call from the dealer telling us they could not perform the service because our car was out of warranty (even though it will wear the tires out). Fortunately there was a Honda representative there that day that approved the repair. We still had to pay for the alignment, even though it clearly states in the service bulletin that the alignment is included and even though we bought the extended warranty at the time of purchase. We also got no compensation for tires even though there is a table for prorating the tires in the service bulletin. We had to replace the back tires again because of the flat spots. These were not down to the cords, but there was no tread left on the flat spots. I don't want my wife and young daughter to be stranded on the road or worse because of an engineering flaw by Honda.

The car had excessive road noise after 8,000 miles. Checking the rear tires I found that both ha numerous flat spots. Took it to the Honda dealer and got the same response that other complaints I have read. I was asked if I pulled the emergency brake while driving. I was told it was a tire issue and to talk to a bridgestone dealer. The tire dealer told me that the tires that come on the car aren't the best quality and I should replace them with a better pair. There was nothing they could do because they said it due to lack of tire rotation. I have never had an issue with tires wearing like this even after not rotating tires on other vehicles. I have replaced the tires with new michelins at my expense. I will have them rotated at each oil change. I would like to think that Honda and it's tire suppliers would address this issue. This is my 5th Honda since 1990 and will be my last and the last time I buy bridgestones.

I own a 2006 Honda Civic. I purchased it new and have been satisfied with the vehicle with one exception. The rear tires wear unevenly (flat spots) causing a roaring sound that is very annoying. Also, during high speed (45 - 70 mph) the vehicle vibrates as if the wheels were out of balance. This could present a safety hazard. When I first experienced this problem I thought that it may have been my fault for not rotating the tires as recommended in the owners manual. However, I have since discovered that rotating the tires and having the wheels balanced does absolutely nothing to correct the problem. During my research of the problem on the NHTSA website I found that there are many other Civic owners that are experiencing the same problem. During the past 5 years I have asked numerous Civic owners if they were experiencing similar problems with their vehicle. Nearly every one that I asked did in fact have the same problem with their vehicle.

I bought a new 2006 Honda Civic and took delivery in July 2006. From the time of delivery of the vehicle, it was noticeable that the rear end or rear tires of the Honda Civic were very noisy. Lacking sufficient time, I did not investigate the noise until our trip to arizona in early March, 2007. When we arrived in arizona, I got down on my knees for the first time to examine the rear tires. To my amazement, they were worn out at 21,000 miles - to the point where steel belts were protruding from the tires. I took the car to a authorized Honda dealer in tucson. After extensive tests, they claimed that the car had no defect - I had two defective rear tires. I told them that it was highly unlikely that both rear tires on this vehicle would wear so badly, while the front tires on the front-wheel drive car were in excellent conditon for 21,000 miles. I was able to locate a service bulletion from Acura - a division of Honda. The service bulletin 05-076 dated January 19, 2007 stated that the Acura 2004 & 2005 had an issue with "premature rear tire wear". The problem was described as: "the rear tires are wearing prematurely (unevenly across the tread). Probable cause: the rear toe increases when the vehicle is loaded" the description and pictures of tire wear in this service bulletin exactly match what I found in my 2006 Honda Civic. I had just checked the air pressure in all four tires. Due to the design of the Honda Civic, the rear tires are difficult to seen without kneeling. When I found that the rear tires had been worn so severely that steel belts were showing, it was clear to me that such premature wear constitutes a definite safety hazard.

My 2006 Honda Civic fishtails terribly, especially in the winter but even in the summer on dry pavement when I hit even little bumps the car shifts to the side. It forces me to slow down but it gets worse between 30-40 miles per hour. I have not crashed due to the problem (yet) but in certainly concerns me and my wife refuses to drive our car!.