Potential Civic Owner Has Questions

warsaws said:

I do still have my Civic, but my best advice I’d give a friend is to stay away from the Civic. There’s just too many problems with them.

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Wich problems ?

The most frequent problem reported is the failure of the air conditioning system. Honda and the dealers have not fully owned up to the problem (Other than the condensor) . They try to get the customers to pay for the repairs by claiming "road damage" when they know the problem is faulty components.

This problem is very expensive to repair and we have reports of owners having multiple repairs as Honda "fixes" the problems with faulty parts or inexperienced technicians. If I had a choice to buy over again, I would have bought something else.

NotSerious said:

The most frequent problem reported is the failure of the air conditioning system. Honda and the dealers have not fully owned up to the problem (Other than the condensor) . They try to get the customers to pay for the repairs by claiming "road damage" when they know the problem is faulty components.

This problem is very expensive to repair and we have reports of owners having multiple repairs as Honda "fixes" the problems with faulty parts or inexperienced technicians. If I had a choice to buy over again, I would have bought something else.

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Will you disclose which car would you have bought?

Gruber said:

Will you disclose which car would you have bought?

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Probably a Corolla. Reliability and durability are the most important factors for me.

NotSerious said:

Probably a Corolla. Reliability and durability are the most important factors for me.

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That's a reasonable choice. But not for me. Being generally not at all interested in compact "car" cars, there is absolutely zero likelihood I would have bought a 2018 corolla - I wasn't even looking that way.
Even today, with redesigned 2020 corollas, and knowing what I know now, it's still not a car I would buy for myself.

Not even going into the whole driving satisfaction issue, but staying with practicality.... The corolla hatchback passenger + cargo = total volume is 84.6 + 17.8 = 102.4 cf
vs. civic ST 94.8 + 22.6 = 117.4 cf (non-Sport civic hatchbacks are up to 97.2 + 25.7 = 122.9 cf). So the corolla hb is simply a smaller car than the civic by 15 to 20 cf. Well, the 15+ cft is the volume of the trunk in a civic sedan. So by choosing a corolla hb vs. civic hb you loose a whole trunkful of space. This alone takes is out of my radar.

Btw. The passenger space in the civic hatch is closer to accord sedan than to corolla hatch... And the total volume including cargo is actually greater in a non-sport civic hatch than in accord sedan...

I just bought the civic coupe sport and couldn't be happier.yes almost all car companies have there own problems.

Ford focus dct problems
Hyundai dct problems
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I can go on and on