Forward Collision Avoidance Problems of Honda Civic

Honda Civic owners have reported 250 forward collision avoidance related problems since 1996. Table 1 shows the 4 most common forward collision avoidance problems. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's automatic emergency braking (116 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's adaptive cruise control (99 problems). For details of each of the problem category, use the links in the table.

Table 1. Forward Collision Avoidance related problems of Honda Civic


Recently reported Forward Collision Avoidance problems of Honda Civic

The Automatic Emergency Braking problem

While pulling into a parking lot at approximately 10–15 mph around sunset, the vehicle suddenly and unexpectedly engaged the brakes without any input from me. The abrupt braking caused all of my personal belongings inside the vehicle to be thrown forward.   Read details...

The Adaptive Cruise Control problem

While driving last week with my family, doing some grocery shopping, we got on the highway which is 75mph in our 2021 Honda Civic and it had a catastrophic failure on its adas system out of nowhere it stopped and made my car swerve off the road and applied the breaks like it detected a car in front   Read details...

The Warnings problem

On 7-28-26 after filling my vehicle with gas at the next red light, all lights on dashboard went on flickering warning (christmas tree effect). On 7-29-26 after researching online roadside came out and did battery and alternator test that passed.   Read details...

The Forward Collision Avoidance problem

The contact owns a 2024 Honda Civic. The contact stated while driving 30 mph, the forward collision avoidance system became inoperable. The contact stated that whenever the vehicle was close to another vehicle, the vehicle inadvertently accelerated, with the forward collision avoidance alert   Read details...




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