Automatic Transmission problems of the 2012 Honda Civic

Two problems related to automatic transmission have been reported for the 2012 Honda Civic. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2012 Honda Civic based on all problems reported for the 2012 Civic.

1 Automatic Transmission problem

Failure Date: 11/15/2019

The contact owns a 2012 Honda Civic. The contact stated that while exiting a parking structure the vehicle failed to accelerate, the steering column began to fail and the vehicle began to make an abnormal sound coming from the driver front side. The vehicle was towed to the local dealer where it was diagnosed as having a shredded c-axel and transmission failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and referred the contact to the NHTSA hotline. The failure mileage was approximately 140,000.

2 Automatic Transmission problem

Failure Date: 05/20/2011

The contact owns a 2012 Honda Civic. The contact stated that the vehicle had become extremely resistant to acceleration attempts. In addition, there was an abnormal shifting when the vehicle shifted gears. The vehicle had been taken to the dealer several times for the failure and an engineer also further inspected the vehicle but was unable to duplicate the failure. The failure mileage was 50 and the current mileage was 4,900.




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