Spiff44
Senior Member
- First Name
- Rob
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- Aug 23, 2019
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- 2019 Civic SI
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I registered here to discuss symptoms with my air conditioning. Needless to say I was disappointed to find a lengthy thread about this car’s A/C issues. But that’s a different story….
My deal is different.. my AC seems to come on all by itself when I just want to use the fan. I don’t have defrost or zone control on. I’ll just notice cold air coming out… when I go into climate settings, both buttons for AC are unselected. So it shows neither on or off. If I select “off”, then it goes off. The issue is that the symptom keeps coming back and I’m having to manually shut off the compressor.
I found similar threads on other cars but no consensus was ever reached if this was normal or not or if there was a permanent solution.
So I called 6 Honda dealerships near me to talk to a technician. I pretty much got 6 different answers above their generic “just bring it in” default reply. After advising that I would expect a reasonable diagnosis over the phone whether it was an issue or not before wasting both our time bringing it in.. I got yet more varied reply. A few said that “yeah, it sounds normal”. Only one said with any confidence that it was by design. Needless to say I take this with a grain of salt.. to this guys credit he did take my info to pick other people’s noggins before calling me back to give me that reply. When pressed on whether there was an over ride or fix for this, we were back to vague answers. None that they knew of at least.
So now I’m here to see if anyone knows more than Honda about their own cars. I just bought this 2019 Civic SI about 2 months ago. I rarely drive.. so I haven’t even used a tank of gas yet. Which is a shame because so far I love the car. This AC thing and not having a manual e-brake are my biggest gripes so far.
I hoping that I'll hear that its just on really hot days that it does this... otherwise this will get annoying fast.
Anyways, thanks in advance to any help in this matter.
Cheers
My deal is different.. my AC seems to come on all by itself when I just want to use the fan. I don’t have defrost or zone control on. I’ll just notice cold air coming out… when I go into climate settings, both buttons for AC are unselected. So it shows neither on or off. If I select “off”, then it goes off. The issue is that the symptom keeps coming back and I’m having to manually shut off the compressor.
I found similar threads on other cars but no consensus was ever reached if this was normal or not or if there was a permanent solution.
So I called 6 Honda dealerships near me to talk to a technician. I pretty much got 6 different answers above their generic “just bring it in” default reply. After advising that I would expect a reasonable diagnosis over the phone whether it was an issue or not before wasting both our time bringing it in.. I got yet more varied reply. A few said that “yeah, it sounds normal”. Only one said with any confidence that it was by design. Needless to say I take this with a grain of salt.. to this guys credit he did take my info to pick other people’s noggins before calling me back to give me that reply. When pressed on whether there was an over ride or fix for this, we were back to vague answers. None that they knew of at least.
So now I’m here to see if anyone knows more than Honda about their own cars. I just bought this 2019 Civic SI about 2 months ago. I rarely drive.. so I haven’t even used a tank of gas yet. Which is a shame because so far I love the car. This AC thing and not having a manual e-brake are my biggest gripes so far.
I hoping that I'll hear that its just on really hot days that it does this... otherwise this will get annoying fast.
Anyways, thanks in advance to any help in this matter.
Cheers
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