1 thing you hate about your 10th gen civic?

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The only thing I dislike about my civic, I’m not gonna say hate because it’s not that bad, is the TPMS system. There are pros and cons to having the TPMS and not the old sensors in the wheels. But I like how the sensors can tell you how much pressure you got in your tires at the push of a button. With the TPMS it doesn’t give you that information. I would rather have pressure readings instead of a light that comes on when one of my tires is lower than the rest
Initially I didn't like the Honda system either, but I'll never have to buy TPMS sensors when their batteries die. I'm used to checking my tires anyway so it's not that big of a deal.
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Initially I didn't like the Honda system either, but I'll never have to buy TPMS sensors when their batteries die. I'm used to checking my tires anyway so it's not that big of a deal.
Yeah like I said I don’t hate it. I would just rather check pressure from my dash. And the best thing to do was change your batteries when you got new tires. To me it is just a better system. The TPMS allowed my tires to deflate from 32 psi to 28 before it gave me a warning because they all were deflating together. It only senses when they don’t match. It’s a cool idea but does have that flaw
 

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My daughter has the sensor type tire pressure monitoring in her Camry. That is she has none, because the thing doesn't work, and there is no chance she will pay what's needed to have it fixed. The light on the dashboard is permanently on and can't be reset without replacing the sensors.
 

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Yeah like I said I don’t hate it. I would just rather check pressure from my dash. And the best thing to do was change your batteries when you got new tires. To me it is just a better system. The TPMS allowed my tires to deflate from 32 psi to 28 before it gave me a warning because they all were deflating together. It only senses when they don’t match. It’s a cool idea but does have that flaw
Every video & DIY posting or blog that I've seen regarding the battery powered TPMS sensors show the battery embedded in epoxy or a similar potting compound. People have dug out & changed the batteries but it seems like a real PITA. Then of course you have to make sure the epoxy you are using is going to hold up & not have the battery come loose inside the tire. A lot of people point to online sources with heavily discounted sensors.
 

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Mine is an auto/CVT and I've always downshifted autos, but this CVT was not meant for that.
Slipping it into S isn't the issue, but putting it back up into D is a real pain. If I try to do it quietly or smoothly, often it goes right into N, or I'm farting around for a second or two and my wife looks at me as says WTF are you doing?
Every other car out there is easy peezy to down or up shift. Why does this Honda have to be so ill-thought-out?
 


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The stupid LaneWatch camera which overtakes the infotainment screen and blocks CarPlay Google Maps so I don’t know where to go once I put on my turn signal to exit a highway.

So with LaneWatch disabled and no blind spot detection I’ve got no protection for blind spots in this supposedly huge suite of sensing features which is a joke.
I disabled LaneWatch's automatic "activate on turn signal" function, and now I use the button on the end of the turn signal stalk.

So, now I can "preview" the camera long before I want to change lanes, and it won't take over the nav screen when I don't want it. I also use the camera to check my place in a parking spot when I go through an empty spot to park nose-out in the next spot (does that description make any sense?); when the "O" in "Object" lines up with the parking spot line behind me, the car is in the right position ahead of that line.
 

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My daughter has the sensor type tire pressure monitoring in her Camry. That is she has none, because the thing doesn't work, and there is no chance she will pay what's needed to have it fixed. The light on the dashboard is permanently on and can't be reset without replacing the sensors.
Automation takes jobs away, even the jobs of remote TPMS sensors. ;)

On balance, I think I'd prefer the indirect TPMS that we have instead of a sensor-based system. I never had the sensors before (skipped from an '02 EP3 hatch to the '17 FK7) but, in the past, I was not looking forward to getting stuck with them.
 

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I disabled LaneWatch's automatic "activate on turn signal" function, and now I use the button on the end of the turn signal stalk.

So, now I can "preview" the camera long before I want to change lanes, and it won't take over the nav screen when I don't want it. I also use the camera to check my place in a parking spot when I go through an empty spot to park nose-out in the next spot (does that description make any sense?); when the "O" in "Object" lines up with the parking spot line behind me, the car is in the right position ahead of that line.
Following up on this ^^^^^^^

I think there are TOO MANY CONFIGURATION OPTIONS in the car's systems.

Now, I'm VERY glad that I can choose to make LaneWatch work the way I might want (although I think "activate on turn signal" is more like a training/looks-cool-during-a-test-drive mode and is impractical for daily use).

But there are SO MANY other stupid little things that clutter the config menus that it's easy to miss a setting that you might want to change. There are, for example, five levels of sensitivity for the automatic headlights and the instrument cluster's brightness and the infotainment screen's day/night switchover.

So what? So, what this means is, when I think, "Is there some way to change how this feature works?" there are a hundred different damned settings to browse through.
 

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Well, fifteen pages and there doesn't seem to be any major consensus. A lot of the complaints here are defects in manufacturing, that I don't have.

There are several trends that I agree with, but I just accept them as quirks of this model.

My major complaint I was able to fix by installing a stiffer rear motor mount. That the cruise control speed would wander. (The Si doesn't have an adaptive cruise control).

So I'm going to list my one thing that I hate about my 10th gen. Something that no one else has listed. Which shows how much preference colors our expectations.

I hate the 3 blink minimum turn signal.
 

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How big of a PITA it is to take off the front bumper to do mods under there and having to go behind it to work on the foglights. The old setup allowed you to pull them out through the front.
 
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While there's nothing I really "hate" about my car, I do dislike how low the seating is in the vehicle. Getting in and out of the car can be a chore sometimes!

Also, the center armrest is a little low for me, I may invest in the upgraded center armrest at some point, provided it fits (says it's for 2019+ models)

Otherwise, best car I've owned!
Don’t give the Honda engineers this feedback lolz or they’ll change it for the next model. I like the low seats :)
 

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Don’t give the Honda engineers this feedback lolz or they’ll change it for the next model. I like the low seats :)
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Automation takes jobs away, even the jobs of remote TPMS sensors. ;)

On balance, I think I'd prefer the indirect TPMS that we have instead of a sensor-based system. I never had the sensors before (skipped from an '02 EP3 hatch to the '17 FK7) but, in the past, I was not looking forward to getting stuck with them.
I just realized that my 2009 CR-V has a sensor type direct TPMS. Since it doesn't let you read the actual pressures and isn't even able to tell which wheel is underinflated, I thought it was the rotational speed based system. It never gave me any problems, doesn't require calibration and it has continued to work seamlessly through a tire replacement at a warehouse store without me being fully aware of it. The TPMS batteries still work after 10 years and 120 kmiles (they transmit only when the wheels are turning).

In rental cars I do appreciate having actual pressure in each tire readable , like e.g. in Nissans. I never thought of the indirect system as more advanced or newer. The nature of the TPMS is such that it only really makes sense when it's accurate and reliable. If the measurement is not accurate enough (and it usually isn't, regardless whether direct or indirect) then it only can give a warning when the tire pressure is so low that it's visible by just looking at the tire. I guess this is still useful for those drivers who don't ever look at their tires. But the ideal system would have accurate pressure sensors and also send the temperature inside each tire to figure out whether the air is actually leaking. Maybe some luxury cars already can do this.
 
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I just realized that my 2009 CR-V has a sensor type direct TPMS. Since it doesn't let you read the actual pressures and doesn't even able to tell which wheel is underinflated, I thought it was the rotational speed based system. It never gave me any problems, doesn't require calibration and it has continued to work seamlessly through a tire replacement at a warehouse store without me being fully aware of it. The TPMS batteries still work after 10 years and 120 kmiles (they transmit only when the wheels are turning).

In rental cars I do appreciate having actual pressure in each tire readable , like e.g. in Nissans. I never thought of the indirect system as more advanced or newer. The nature of the TPMS is such that it only really makes sense when it's accurate and reliable. If the measurement is not accurate enough (and it usually isn't, regardless whether direct or indirect) then it only can give a warning when the tire pressure is so low that it's visible by just looking at the tire. I guess this is still useful for those drivers who don't ever look at their tires. But the ideal system would have accurate pressure sensors and also send the temperature inside each tire to figure out whether the air is actually leaking. Maybe some luxury cars already can do this.
I have "aftermarket" DIRECT Pressure/Temperature/Battery monitoring TPMS on both our Cars.
The Si has a stand alone unit, display has rechargeable battery, that can be powered from the 12v Aux Power socket.
The 4 screw in valve cap sensors have replaceable Batteries, they last at least a year, and total cost to replace is less than $3, and it takes about 3 minutes / tire.

Tire pressure Indicates to the nearest PSI, and each time I have checked them against a decent Digital Tire Pressure Gauge (0.5 PSI resolution) they have been spot on.

I can see my CURRENT tire pressures and Temperature at any time, and see them change with both outside temperature, and how hard the car is driven.

They have never leaked at all, and in the unlikely case when one did leak, they would alarm alarm in any case.

All for $24 incl shipping (Ebay)

Seems like a NO Brainer to me -

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How about no compass? It seems you need the Nav system with GPS in order to have a compass. My other vehicles had a compass. I've had rental cars with a compass. You might say it's a cheap Civic, yet it has dual zone climate control. I thought a compass was pretty much standard equipment for the last couple decades.
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