general problems of the 2007 Honda Civic Hybrid

My wife was driving our 2007 Honda civic and I was in the passenger seat. We were in traffic, on the freeway, slowing down due to cars stopped in front of us. When traffic started moving again she attempted to speed up, but the car lost power. She pushed the accelerator further and further until it was floored, but the car had little to no power. The car barely made it across two lanes to the side of the freeway. We barely made it off the freeway to a parking area. The car could reach speeds of only 5-10 mph even with the accelerator pushed to the floor. There were still two bars indicating battery power for the ima engine. This is the second time I lost power with this car, but the most dangerous because it was during rush hour on the freeway with lots of traffic. The previous time I lost power I was trying to go up a hill and the car failed to proceed and I had to back the car down the hill and park it.

The contact owns a 2007 Honda Civic Hybrid. The contact stated that the el-1 iam battery was not working and the service engine and several unknown warning indicators were illuminated. The vehicle was taken to prescott Honda (3291 willow creek rd, prescott az, 86301) where it was diagnosed that the battery needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the issue. The failure mileage was 76,081.

On sept 15, '12, I was taking my son and his friend over to his coach's house for a football party. I attempted to drive up the coach's driveway but at approximately the halfway point, my Honda Civic Hybrid stopped moving forward although the accelerator was pushed to the floor. I had the two nine year old kids exit the vehicle but it still did not move forward. I slowly backed down the driveway and attempted to accelerate up the driveway again, this time with a running start. Again, my Honda Civic Hybrid did not make it up the driveway. I estimate the driveway to be at a 30% angle, not steep but definitely not flat. Again I slowly backed down the driveway after having the cars behind me move out of my way. I parked at the bottom of the driveway and walked up the hill, not something you expect to do when you spend a lot of money for a vehicle. On October 3, 2012, I had a certified Honda dealership examine the car as I susected the ima battery was faulty. The dealer stated I did need a new 12 volt battery and I had the battery replaced. The dealer stated that while the ima battery is not giving out full power it is at an acceptable level. The dealer stated that Honda refuses to replace any ima battery unless it completely fails and they have seen several Civic Hybrids with the same problem. My concern is the acceleration and loss of power becomes a major safety issue on the highways and hills. I have three young kids and do not feel safe with them in the car. I have all service documentation and am willing to let investigators examine and drive my vehicle. Also, I can provide the address of the driveway, the vehicle was unable to make it up. Please look into this issue as this loss of power creates a safety issue for my family.

The Honda Civic Hybrid 2007 is suddenly unable to accelerate appropriately. This fault is most dangerous when accelerating to start going after red lights and stop signs, especially on hills. It is also noticeable when accelerating to merge into traffic, the acceleration performance of the Honda Civic Hybrid declined precipitously and dangerously immediately after Honda required replacement of the ima battery and concurrent new software (at the Honda dealer) in March.

I have major concern and safety issues with my 2007 hch. It is when the electric motor is not available. I have to look at the hybrid battery indicator to determine if I will have the extra 20 hp needed to maneuver the car around the traffic safely. Also, the car will perform some kind of health check for hybrid battery to recalibrate the hybrid battery indicator. When it does that, it will stop using the electric motor even though the hybrid battery indicator is more than half full charged. That affects my decision on how to maneuver the car around traffic safely. Example 1 I cross a lot of 4 lanes highway with high speed traffic without stop lights. I need all the power that the car can provide with electric motor to quickly cross the 4 lanes highway when there is an opening. Sometime the car will not use the extra 20hp from the electric motor and I would not have the necessary speed to cross the 4 lanes highway without close calls. To be safe, I wait for large gap in the traffic before I can safely cross the highway. Example 2 if it is hot outside and I drive over several hills, the hybrid battery will be depleted by the time I get to the specific intersection. On the right is a bend that is hard to see incoming traffic going 55mph or over. On the left is a long uphill. With the depleted hybrid battery, I do not have the power to quickly pick up the speed going up the hill and if someone is coming around the bend at the right time, they will have to slow down. A semi was not able to slow down in time and had to swerve left to pass me. Lucky, there was no incoming traffic because the semi cannot see incoming traffic as we both were going uphill. The bottom line is that the amount of the power the car has is unpredictable as I may or may not have 20 extra hp from the electric motor.

Ever since Honda did a software update on my car's engine to extend the life of the battery, my car has had intermittent accelerations issues. For example, last summer, I was at a stop light and when it turned green, my car didn't seem to want to "go". I had to press on the gas pedal about 3 times to get it to "engage" and actually move. Many times the car is sluggish to start from a stop, or accelerate, but it does "go", just not as promptly and quickly as it should. The most recent incidents occurred last month and has prompted this complaint. Both involved merging onto a freeway. In the first instance, I was in the right lane, which I knew would turn exit only a mile or so down the road. There was a truck on my left, followed by a long line of slow moving cars. So I thought, since the truck was right next to me, I would speed up a little bit and bit and get in front of it. To speed up only fast enough to pass this truck, my car revved to over 6000 rpm. It just didn't want to accelerate normally. I did safely make the lane change in front of the truck; the worst thing that would have happened in this case was getting off at an exit I did not intend to get off at. However, the next day, I was merging onto freeway traffic with a typical lane length to allow merging. My car didn't want to accelerate enough to safely accomplish the merge. I had to rev the engine up to over 5000 rpm just to get up to barely 45 mph to accomplish the merge. I feel it is only a matter of time before I get into an accident because of this acceleration issue.

Jhmfa36257s000929 before description let me say that this vehicle is my third Honda hybrid car. The first, an early insight was entirely satisfactory. I wish I still owned it. It is true that it did go through the ima battery reconditioning cycle occasionally, but not very often the second, a Civic Hybrid, was also quite satisfactory. The third, a 2007 Civic Hybrid, is the problem. I wish I had never traded up (down?) to it. Ag an early point the computer indicated an ima problem, and the service people told me that the computer indicated that the ima battery was malfunctioning. Your experts required that the computer be reprogrammed so that the computer no longer reported the ima problem. I continue to be told that since the computer says there is nothing wrong there is noting that the dealer can do to fix the problem. At present about five or six times each day the indicator for ima charge drops to 2 and the ima stops providing assist waiting for the battery to recharge. After a while the charge indicator jumps up to full, usually with do partial full steps, and then the boost resumes work. However if I climb any reasonable hill on the highway the charge indicator drops to the point where there is no boost. It is quite clear that the battery will not hold a proper charge. It is increasingly becoming a safety problem since when starting up in traffic I cannot rely on the ima boost to be there when needed. Quite honestly, I think it is long past time for you to honor the warrantee and replace the ima battery. If there is some other cause for the problem, then it needs fixing.

On my 2007 Honda Civic Hybrid the ima battery will suddenly drop from a charge to no charge. When this happens the car loses almost all acceleration power because the gasoline engine is forced to charge the battery up. This has happened to me during acceleration onto major highways during rush hour which is extremely dangerous without acceleration power. I would like Honda motor to address this issue instead of issuing software recalls that do nothing to the car.

I took my 2007 Civic Hybrid for a service at buena park Honda on 9/16/10 and they told me that there is a recall to my car about the ima battery. They said they will fix the problem. After 2 days of driving, I noticed that I was not getting the battery assist that I used to get. There were still 4 bars on my battery meter and I was not getting the power that I needed to pass a car or during merging lanes on the freeway. I also noticed the drop of my mpg. I have the same everyday driving since I bought my car. It went from an average of 40 mpg to 31 mpg!!! that takes away the point of me buying a hybrid. I am very unhappy about this situation so I started searching if anyone else have these problems and it turned out that I am not the only unhappy Civic Hybrid owner. I really feel unsafe about this. I also noticed that when I have 7 bars left and driving on the freeway, I know its charging when I use the cruise control, all of a sudden it will go to full bars without even filling up the 8, 9. Bars. That makes it very suspicious if it is really charged up. All I can say is hopefully Honda will fix this problem because this is our 4th Honda vehicle and we love it because of the reliability and efficiency that it had given us. Please Honda, fix this problem.

The car became unsafe to drive following Honda's software update 10-034. All owners were asked to have the update performed to prevent hybrid pack deterioration. The letter listed multiple situations in which hybrid assist and braking will be reduced. As a result of the update the car has markedly reduced assist, and at unpredictable times no assist whatsoever. At least once a day, at a random time, battery soc drops to 2 bars, all assist is disabled and then the so-called recalibration is performed where the car fully charges the battery to 5 bars, then jumps to full 8 . On average that last about 8-10 minutes as documented in multiple youtube videos on the subject. During all that time no assist is available, and additional gas engine power is being used to charge the pack. The gas mileage suffers as well as I am driving at 3-4k rpm instead of the usual 1-2k. . I've experienced multiple situations where such a drop happens when trying to merge on an uphill highway with vehicles behind me almost rear-ending me while I am flooring the gas pedal. I've had that happen before left turn when after a quick glance on the gauge and seeing it full, I'd start turning only to see the pack drop and the car slow down significantly. A related problem is reduced/unpredictable braking. When the battery is cold and the car idles higher than usually, all regenerative braking is disabled and it takes a significant effort from the driver to stop the car. Multiple complaints to the dealer were met with "operating as designed" and "the update does reduce the power". Lately, I've been simply referred to become a party of class action suit against Honda, as the dealership is unable to help with anything listed in that suit. As a summary, the car has unpredictable losses of braking and acceleration and a markedly reduced mileage which undoubtedly violates epa rules.

2007 Civic Hybrid - now with deteriorating battery, it occasionally has very poor acceleration and has leaded to near miss accidents twice. Car was fine until the last few months with deteriorating battery. Honda won't replace.

My 2007 Honda Civic Hybrid is experiencing an issue where the hybrid battery loses charge overnight, causing the car to accelerate unpredictably while driving. In some cases, the display shows that the hybrid battery has enough charge to assist in acceleration, but the car reacts extremely slow when accelerating from a stop. Yesterday when shifting from a lane of stopped traffic to a lane of moving traffic, the car attempted to use battery to assist in acceleration, but was unable to do so because the battery was dead. When I entered the lane, the next car behind me was 30-40 yards back, but I did not have sufficient acceleration to match the speed in a reasonable amount of time. Thankfully the driver behind me was paying attention and able to slow down to avoid a collision. Due to the extreme lack of acceleration from a stop in these situations, and the unpredictability as to when it will occur, this to me is a major safety concern every time I drive my car now. I took the car to a Honda dealer, and they applied the latest software update. After the update, I had them test-drive the car, but they were unwilling or unable to do anything else to fix the issue.

Tl- the contact owns a 2007 Honda Civic Hybrid. The contact stated a software update done by the manufacturer was supposed to increase the gas, but had the opposite affect. The vehicle was getting 42 miles per gallon and now get 36. The contact also stated the update decreased acceleration and shortened the battery life of the vehicle. The contact feels this is a manufacturers defect. The current mileage was 99,500. Rl.

I am the original owner, a conservative driver, rarely exceeding 60 mph to increase mileage, and drive for work in an area east of dallas, texas. I had great mileage and no problems to speak of until this past June. I first had noticed a deterioration in the gas mileage. Then I experienced for the first time a drastic drop in responsiveness. I was entering a hwy from a country road and found myself with no power. This has remained so despite the software update. The number of bars showing on the gauge was significantly fewer, and there would be wild fluctuations of bars. There has been no warning light. I've had several conversations with the dealer. Mailed american Honda a complaint, resulting in a call from Honda that seemed to me simply a way to mollify. Honda apparently does not consider this problem a "safety" issue. I beg to differ. Now I must always be aware that I don't have power (the cooler weather has generally seen a higher number of bars), and mileage has definitely suffered. One clear example is that since the software update, the gas engine does not shut off as much as it used to, especially during hot weather. I bought the car to be a 10 year, 300,000 mile product, with no concern for resale value at the end. Now I'm paralyzed with the prospect of poor resale value, perhaps unable to sell privately - restricted to only the dealership. This was the first time to buy a honed - based on a reputation for durability.

This vehicle received a software update to extend the life of the batteries. This update increased the danger of this vehicle more than it had when it was new. The greatest hazard is that this vehicle has unpredictable amounts of power. I had an incident while trying to cross a busy street on an incline with a limited view of oncoming traffic. Normally, the vehicle supplies sufficient power to cross traffic but this time the engine revved high and the car seemed to crawl while traffic was bearing down upon me. Thankfully, the alert oncoming driver avoided hitting me. As for gas mileage, the vehicle never came close to the epa mileage of 51 mpg, the update dropped the mileage down to around 35 mpg.

While driving my 2007 Honda Civic Hybrid, I was stopped in traffic on a busy street. I was waiting to make a left turn into a business. When I went to turn, the car was very sluggish and had what appeared to be significantly less acceleration than normal. This was caused by the car's computer recalibrating the battery. This recalibrating started happening after a software update. It happens every few days and there is no warning. When it happens the computer artificially lower the charge state forcing the car to go into regeneration state to fully charge the batters. Even though the batter is not really empty, since the computer set the battery level to be empty, the electric motor is no longer used. There should be a warning tone or something to indicate that there will be a significant loss of power. I believe that Honda did this software update to make the batteries seem to last longer, but it's really less safe! it's also caused my mileage to go down by about 10% but I realize that is not a safety issue.

2007 Honda Civic Hybrid engine/hybrid system operation has become erratic and unpredictable. Adequate power to accelerate, merge and safely operate vehicle can suddenly cut out, leaving vehicle with unacceptable performance and creating safety hazard in normal driving conditions.

This vehicle is not safe for highway or city driving. It decelerates when you need power, making it very dangerous to merge in high speed or heavy traffic conditions. In the summer when the a/c is running, acceleration is extremely unreliable. The driver's side has severe blind spots. I have also experienced long delays in the engine restarting after pulling out into traffic from a dead stop at lights or stop signs. I have nearly been hit by oncoming traffic -- planning for adequate gaps in traffic is a challenge and very different from the other vehicles I drive. I am an experienced driver with over 37 years behind the wheel and an excellent driving record. I have owned 4 Hondas and this so-called hybrid has been an engineering disaster.

Battery loses charge suddenly and power is significantly lost to the point where acceleration is not possible. This has created several unsafe driving condition in highway and expressway entrances, as I can not get in safely or maintain safe speed during driving. This incident has repeated many times in the past three years. Battery indicator drops to zero bar or one bar and power is lost significantly.

The Honda Civic Hybrid ima system has been inconsistent and a worry since I bought the car. The charge level varies wildly within minutes, releasing the braking charge mode unexpectedly while traveling downhill, resulting in rapid acceleration. While going uphill the ima system suddenly shows no charge and the engine is unable to keep the car's speed constant, resulting in rapid deceleration. The software update that was said to fix these problems resulting in no change to the problems but a considerable reduction in mpg. The engine refuses to stop at red lights and instead remains at idle - wasting gas. I have service records covering the entire history of this car which documents my concerns and complaints. The Honda service department was never able to find any problems with the ima. I continue to drive this car but am concerned for my safety and the car's reliability. Anything you can do to help identify and remedy the ima problem will be greatly appreciated.