My 17 year old son was in a one car accident monday morning. He was driving a 2000 honda civic lx. He was traveling east bound on I-30. Time of the accident was around 7 am. The car was on cruise control at 70 MPH. He apparently dozed off and woke up in the median. Scared to death. He came back up on the interstate. He thought he was putting the brakes on but said he was probably really giving it gas. He spun around a couple of times on the interstate and crashed head on into a guard rail. Fortunately he is ok. He said he had to be going 40-50 MPH when he hit the guard rail. My question is. When scott hit the guard rail he went forward. The seat belt did not tighten up. He hit the steering wheel and came back when the seat belt finally tightened up. There was no deployment of the air bag since it was a front impact crash at over 40 MPH, should the airbags have went off. The place where the car is thinks that it is totaled. Geico looked at it, who is my insurance agent and said it would cost around $4300 to fix it. Thanks for your help in this matter.
2000 Honda Civic: adaptive cruise control problems
6 of the 287 complaints about the 2000 Honda Civic describe adaptive cruise control problems.
- owner complaints
- 6
- of this car's complaints
- 2%
- recalls
- 0
Adaptive cruise control problems by model year
What owners say
When trying to use cruise control the car will accelerate on its own and decelerate on its own, but not in accordance with road conditions. Rarely will the car maintain set cruise speed forcing the driver to cancel cruise control. At this time cruise control is inoperable.
While the consumer was driving, the cruise control malfunctioned.
I attempted to use my cruise control, and the car began accelerating on its own. I tried to press the brake and to manually turn off the cruise control, but the car would not slow down. Pressing the brake as hard as possible would stop the acceleration, but would not decelerate. I called aaa who called the state police. They recommended pulling the emergency brake. After pulling that and keeping my foot as hard as possible on the brake, I got the car down to ~30mph and took the keys out of the iginition. Subsequently the dealer states that they cannot reproduce the problem, but they have found significant damage to the rear brakes, the emergency brake, and to the wheels. I have spoken to the dealer and honda customer service and have been told that it will not be covered under warranty since they canot reproduce the problem. I do not feel that the car is safe to drive if this problem has not been identified and fixed. I am desperately looking for help in dealing with this issue. Thank you!!
Cruise control was activated and while going up a hill, the vehicle accelerated and continued to accelerate until the consumer turned the cruise control off.
While driving with cruise control on 65 MPH car contunied to speed up to 80 MPH hit brake took cruise off. On oct.20 turned in driveway stoped was going to back up car took off in drive at least 25mph hitting brick wall of house causing alot of damage to house airbags did'nt deployed
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the 2000 Honda Civic adaptive cruise
Is adaptive cruise control problems a common problem on the 2000 Honda Civic?
6 of 287 owner complaints about the 2000 Honda Civic (2%) mention adaptive cruise control problems. The model year with the most reports is 2022.
Is there a recall or service bulletin for this on the 2000 Honda Civic?
There is no recall or service bulletin for this area of the car on record.
Other symptoms on the 2000 Honda Civic
No deployment 35Stalling 31Check engine light 13Tire blowout 11Headlights 10Sudden acceleration 9Airbag light 7Seat belt 7Brake failure 5
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