Honda 2006 civic lx sun visors split open with heat.
2006 Honda Civic visibility complaints
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Sun visor hinge fails and visor then hangs down in the line of sight of the driver, potentially causing impairment to visibility. Honda will no longer replace as vehicle is out of original warranty.
Sun visors in 2006 honda civics are no good. We bought the car new and are averaging 1 sun visor per year. In four years now the driver side has been replaced twice as well as the passenger side. Now, the vehicle is out of warranty and they do not want to replace it. This is obviously an ongoing problem and honda is or has done nothing the better these visors. It makes no sense for me to pay for the same product knowing that it will do same thing again. Honda needs to come up with a better design and recall these vehicle's before one falls down in someone's face and there is a serious accident.
Sun visors have a defect where they will not retract and hang in your face while driving. Dangerous driving visabilty. The visor either melted or has a defect which the dealerships know about but honda will not recall or fix.
Sun visors on 2006 honda civic fail when they get hot and start to come apart. Eventually the visor is no longer able to stay up in either the full forward or full rear position and just dangles in the top half of the driver's field of view. This happened last summer on both visors and just happened again on the driver's side. Honda replaced the first set under warranty, but they replaced them with the visors of identical design.
The sun visors in my 2006 honda civic is made of plastic, and the plastic softens/melts to the point where the sun visors cannot be placed back into their original position nor do they stay put in the down position. This blocks a portion of the normal view of the road and can be a hazard. It is a terrible design that honda needs to fix. I originally had honda replace it as part of the warranty but have not gotten it replaced after the warranty ran out since it will continue to fail at least annually. It's sad to see that it is 4 years later, and they still have not figured out not to put those into that car. If I buy another car from honda and it has a plastic sun visor, I will not buy it. It is a deal breaker b/c it is such a nuisance and is a perfect example of a company not learning and implementing their own lessons learned.
2006 honda civic. The sun visor fails. I bought my car new and after 2 years in 2008 the sun visor failed. The sun visor would fall down while I was driving and block my view. I would have to quickly release my grip from the steering wheel to push the sun visor out of my view so I could view where I was going. The dealer replaced the visors under warranty. Now, 2 years later (2010) the visors have failed again resulting in the same behavior. I have conversed with other owners of the same model and many have are having the same problem. I may get honda to replace the sun visors again but they will most likely do the same thing in 2 years.
Under normal use, the sun visor hinge breaks, causing the visor to split at the seam by its mount. The visor is difficult to put back in the upward position and will not stay in a forward position. It falls straight down impeding visibility. If forced back into the upward position, it will stay out of view, but will not function for its intended purpose; therefore, there is no usable sun visor. The car was purchased new in october 2006. The visor was first replaced by the dealer in 2008. It broke again in early 2010. Searching the web, I find that this seems to be a common problem that has gone unaddressed.
The sun visors begin separating, dangling and intefere with field of vision during normal traffic conditions. Dealership replaced my visors three times prior to warranty expiration and now they are no longer willing to do it. It is a safety issue because is blocks my field of vision.
Driver's side sun visor cracked open in 2006 honda civic ex. From information on the net, this is a common occurrence, and honda does not want to see this as a safety hazard. I almost got into a wreck when it suddenly flipped down in my face. I also can not see at night to drive. Honda does not want to replace the defective part at their expense. They want to charge you 70.00 to fix this plastic hazard.
This will be the third time I've had to have my sun-visor replaced on my 2006 honda civic. The visor clip breaks, leaving the visor to hang down into your face. The visor will neither stay up or all the way down. It poses a safety hazard during both day time and night time driving. The first time the part was replaced when I bought the vehicle at 9 months old; the second time it was replaced was a year and a half ago. Yesterday I went to my local dealership for an oil change and to have them fix the broken visor and they wanted to charge me 75$ for the part + labor + taxes. This is a safety hazard; also this is not a problem I caused by rough-wear--it just falls apart!
2006 honda civic si visors have fallen off right in my face while driving, causing a reaction that could have caused an accident. They were poorly made as the passenger side visor has also fallen completely off. Luckily I didn't get into an accident but I have read that this is an issue with this model for many people. I have read that when their is high heat, it can cause this problem and it just so happens that we've experienced 90+ heat for the past 2 weeks when this happened.
2006 honda civic driver's side sun visor is fallen off completely. The plastic casing holding the visor together split at the seam. Mileage was approx. 30,050.
Drivers side visor breaks apart and cannot be positioned safely during driving. This happens usually gradually over a couple of summers until it no longer functions. It is not safe.
The driver side visor in my 2006 honda civic is again breaking. It wont stay up and is splitting down the middle. I had both visors replaced by honda about a year ago for the same problem.
Sun visor on the 2006 honda civic won't stay up or go completely down. When putting the visor down it just split open. This is the second time it's happened. Honda replaced the part about 2 years ago, but the exact same thing happened again. It is very distracting and dangerous when driving.
Both sun visors (driver side and passenger side) split open after approximately 45,000 miles. The plastic casing holding the visor together split at the seem on both visors. As a result, they are completely inoperable. They cannot fold up. They fall and partially obstruct the view through the windshield. Honda has refused to take corrective action. Even the replacement visors are of the same construction, and therefore offer little remedy since they too will inevitably split open.
Tl*the contact owns a 2006 honda civic. The contact stated that the sun visor on the driver and passenger side of the vehicle continued to fall down, making it difficult to see while driving. The contact did not take the vehicle to the dealer since the sun visor was not covered by the warranty. The contact was also advised that he would be responsible for the cost of the diagnostic testing. The failure mileage was unknown. The current mileage was 41000.
My '06 honda civic's sun visors split open after a hot day this summer. They do not stay up and keep hanging in front of my face while I drive posing a safety hazard. I found that there are complaints from hundreds of people with the same issue, claiming that it is a design flaw when subjected to car's interior heat. This is a critical visibility issue and may cause an accident, injury and possibly lost of life.
2006 honda civic ex, sun visors on both drive and passenger sides failed and could not be retracted, blocking view. 1st set failed 6mo from purchase replaced under warranty failed again but now out of warranty. When interior of car is hot plastic on visors splits and loses "detent" can not be put back out of view. Dealer knows of problems. Several owners blogs show many such complaints. Sun visors are unusable.
My 2006 honda civic sun visors keep breaking and will not stay up in either direction, blocking my view of the road. It looks like thousands of others are having this same problem. Some honda dealers refuse to make the repair without charging for labor. It takes 60 seconds to replace! They also refuse to just give me the part and let me replace it. This is a huge safety issue. They should issue a recall and stop considering it "a known problem".
The drivers, and passengers side sun visors are defective , they flop down and don't stay in place , they went bad after the first year I had the car , and since I don't use them , I didn't bother complaining since they stayed in place and didn't pose a hazard , but now the passenger side visor just fell off when I used it the other day , and the drivers side is just as bad .... They were always hard to use so I didn't use them ...
Sun visors on driver's side and passenger side split open near the pivot point and do not stay up. Cost to replace at honda dealer is $78 each plus $17 each to install. Problem began when I started using a sun shield purchased from the honda dealer and used the sun visors to hold it in position. The heat softens the plastic, and the visors split apart when I attempted to rotate them back toward the roof.
Driver side visor has split and just dangles now. Numerous other 2006 honda civic owners are complaining about the same problem. Some have replaced the visor with the same cheap part four times. This is unacceptable!!! Have never owned a car that had a problem with the visor and I keep my vehicles for ten plus years.
I have a 2006 honda civic lx. Under warranty in 2007 the passenger sun visor broke when I put it down. At this point it would not stay up when you push it up, it would just hang straight down and block my vision to my right, not safe. The dealer replace it under warranty and told me that there was a bulletin on this issue. In 2008 the same thing append to my driver side. I had the same results as the right side visor. 2009 passenger side broke again it was fixed under warranty. June 2010 passenger side broke again but it is out of warranty and will cost me $60 to fix. This is unsafe, obscures my vision. July 6 2010 the driver side broke again, the will not fix it, it will cost me $60. There is a definite production problem here and honda no's it.
Tl*the contact owns a 2006 honda civic. The contact stated that the sun visor exhibits cracks due to the heat and separates from the hook. The failure occurred four times. The vehicle has replaced the sun visor each time it deteriorates. The failure mileage was 5000 and the current mileage was 62172.
Failure of sun visors in 2006 honda civic. They mechanism that holds them up breaks and then the visor hangs down in your face while driving. I've replaced the passenger side visor already and now the drivers side is broken. This is a well known problem but honda has done nothing about it.
I own a 2006 honda civic ex which I purchased new in 2006. Since I purchased the car, I have experienced failure of three driver and three passenger sun visors. I am currently experiencing problems with the fourth visor on the drivers side. The vehicle has only 55,460 miles on it used mainly to go to and from work 27 miles away from home. Over time, the glue which holds the visors together is losing its adhesion allowing the visor to come apart. As a result, the visor is falling down into the drivers field of view unexpectedly which can cause a fatal crash. I have three friends who have newer versions of the same vehicle and they have the same problem. Their names are garry burkett, ken crampton and john minnick. In discussing the problem with the honda dealership, walsh honda in macon ga, they stated that honda knows that they have a problem due to the shear number of visors being replaced but is doing nothing to correct the problem. Our family has other honda vehicles, a 1999 acura tl and a 2003 honda civic neither of which has ever had a visor replaced. I have reported this problem once before tot his office. I wish someone would look into this and force the manufacture to correct the problem before there are serious accidents if there have not been already.
Sun visors, drivers and passengers, fail to stay in the upright position. The visors in the down position block the drivers vision which impair the visibility of sight. This impairment has almost lead to several accidents. This is a common problem for 2006- 2007 civics based on internet research. American honda and the local dealer refuses to correct this design defect. The visors are plastic. The two halves, upper and lower, are glued together. The interior mechanism that retains the visor in the up position is metal. The metal has a higher yield strength than the plastic and breaks the plastic at the point where it is glued together.
Light use flip visor in honda civic 2006 cracked and now blocking the sight very dangerous at night driving. Reported to honda dealer and they admitted is flaw design but no recall.
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