Tl* the contact owns a 2008 honda civic. The contact stated that the coating on the front windshield created a glare on the window during night when the headlights of other vehicles reflected off the windshield. The contact stated the failure made it difficult to see and drive the vehicle. The contact had not taken the vehicle to the dealer. The contact took the vehicle to a body shop that specified in the windows on the vehicle and they informed the contact that the windshield had to be replaced. The windshield was not replaced. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 72,000. Updated 07/12/16
2008 Honda Civic visibility complaints
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I have a 2008 honda civic lx and was driving down the highway when the visor suddenly fell in my point of view. Thankfully I was at a good cruising speed with no one around me. I read about the the civil suit and the supposed 100k mile extended warranty but when I took into the honda dealership they denied paying for my visor saying the vehicle was to old. I only have 92k on the car and I think this should of been a recalled safety violation because if someone would of happened to be in front of me slowing down I would have lost most of my time to be able to brake.
This is a common issue. The sun visor is broken. The hinges melted.
Driver side visor will not stay up and impairs my vision while driving.
The air conditioner is no longer blowing any cold air. Went to the dealership and was told that the air compressor needs to be replaced, along with the coils, and A/C clutch engagement for the air compressor. Vehicle is only 5 years old and there is no extended warranty to cover the cost of replacing the air compressor. Discussed with several mechanics in my area and have seen forum discussions posted that have similar issues and have listed it as a "known issue" but honda has not formally acknowledged. Previously I have owned a 1997 honda civic with all original parts and it did not have such an issue. I have also submitted a direct complaint to honda regarding my defective air compressor.
I was blinded by the sun and nearly had an accident due to being unable to adjust my sun visor. This is not the first time I have had this problem with the visor. The original visor was replaced by honda after it split apart at one of the hinges and didn't work properly. I believe that honda replaced the original visor with an identical visor, rather than having the visor redesigned to correct the flaw, because the replacement visor eventually split apart in the very same way that the original visor split apart. I have now had to get the replacement visor replaced and I am on my third visor. This is not acceptable as a functional sun visor is a basic piece of equipment that is essential to safety. I expect better of honda.
The visor dropped down, affecting the visibility. It does not stay back up, honda refuses to replace it as a defect.
Sun visors have become loose and do not stay in upright position. Distracting and disrupts view. Cannot see traffic signal (lights) unless I take my hand from steering wheel to hold sun visor in upright position. Not safe, not practical, especially since I have manual transmission. This is an obvious design flaw with honda civic. Both visors hang in down position, will not remain up. Expensive to repair sun visors, as much as $60 per visor. Honda knows this is a flaw and needs to repair same at their expense.
I was turning on from a left lane into a left lane separated by a cement divider; the car went over the cement divider and almost overturned. At night with normal lighting and normal speed. I have had another incident 3 months prior making a right turn. I noticed carefully by comparison of the exact position of similar make sedan cars; this car has the mirror attached to the door panels and presents a hazard (has 2 blind spots) making it especially dangerous at night with low beam lights and old painted divider lines. It needs immediate action and recall so the dealers can reposition the mirrors.
Sun visor on the driver side was broken for no known reason. I searched this problem on web, and found many similar cases/complaints for the honda civic. Honda should do a recall for this problem. The broken sun visor blocks driver's view, and can cause safety problems.
The driver side visor in malfunctioning.
Mirror/shade does not go up not down it is stuck unable to operate as a shade nor mirror.
Right and left sunvisors both split at seems and falling down. Melted from extreme heat and the right visor has now completely come off of metal bar. Calling honda dealer in the morning to report and ask that both be replaced at no charge. This does fall under the class action lawsuit against honda for sunvisor defect.
I flipped the sun visor down and found I couldn't return it back up. The internal pivot clip broke the visor.
After the recall for the sun visor melting, I got both the driver side and passenger visor replaced last year. Its been one year and they melted again. Honda repaired them but I do not want to have to go in every year for a replacement. They need to fix the underlying issue. The warranty was extended but only for 100,000 miles or 7 years. If they continue to use the same visor, then after 7 years or 100k miles, it will still be a hazard. My friend in arlington also has the same make and model and she is having the same issue with the already recalled and replaced visors.
I had bought my car new in march 2008. It is 4+ years since and due to work commute I have accrued more than 132k miles on it. This summer, about last week, suddenly both the sun visors got cracked about 2 days apart. I was heading out for lunch, and I flipped up the sun visors to remove the sun reflecting sheet from the windscreen. And the sun visors simply cracked. Now the sun visors are not staying up and it partially blocks my view all the time. Keeping the sun visors turned to the side also is not very practical. I looked up online to learn that the sun visors in 2008 civics have a manufacturing defect that causes them to crack ( http://visorsettlement.com/ ). When I went to the dealer to fix it, unfortunately they can't be fixed for free because the visor warranty was extended only till 100k miles and I am already at 132k+ miles. Honda should replace the visors regardless of the mileage because it is a manufacturing defect and not the user's fault. Does the extended warranty of just 100k miles mean that honda is not responsible for its own fault after that limit? I would appeal honda to fix the sun visors for me for free. Just because I have to commute more for work everyday does not mean that this class action settlement right be taken away from me.
I noticed that 2 days ago it was raining inside my car I bought the car brand new off of the lot in 2008. The areas that are leaking/collecting water are where the side front airbag is located, along with the windshield, and side of the door. Called the dealer they are telling me that my warranty has expired therefore I will need to replace the windshield and other components (roof, airbags,etc.) the car has never been in an accident or anything and now I am almost scared to drive it since they are telling me that it is the windshield I am petrified that it will implode soon. This seems extremely dangerous now I am unsure that if I get in an accident because of the water what if my airbag won't work upon impact? What happens if the windshield implodes while I am driving this issue is an accident waiting to happen.
Sun visor split apart causing the visor to loosely stay in the line of sight of the driver. The mechanism that holds the visor up does not hold the visor up anymore because of the split. Looks like the heat of the interior of the car mixed with the plastic pieces of the visor caused the defect. Honda needs to not just replace the parts, they need to redesign the visors using different materials that will hold up to the extreme heat that car interiors have to face. Currently they are replacing the visors with the same defectively designed visors. They need to be forced to fix the problem, instead of treat the symptom! Type in honda sun visor defect in any search engine and you will see that this is a very common problem!
The driver side visor seem came apart. The inside of the visor can be seen. It will fall down into the line of sight of the driver.
I had pulled off the freeway exit and proceeded to follow the cars ahead of me as the traffic signal light had turned green and did not necessitate me stopping, only slowing down to continue my left hand turn onto the surface street. Suddenly without warning the sun visor flipped down without being touched and hit me in the forehead. The hard plastic edge hit me relatively quickly and knocked my prescription glasses off. There was a moment when I had my vision obscured and did not see the vehicle in front of me come to a rather sudden stop. I narrowly escaped hitting the back bumper of the vehicle ahead of me. Fortunately I was traveling at a relatively low rate of speed, maybe 20 MPH which probably would have caused minor damage, if any. However, people can be injured by whiplash even in low speed rear-end collisions. I have secured the visor with a bungee cord for the moment because the dealership wants to charge customers for this defective part plus labor and it is not cheap. I am afraid that the bungee cord might snap and cause a different sort of injury; however, there really is no way it will stay up against the interior cabin roof without it. I would like to add that I recall my 2002 honda civic had the exact same problem which occurred on both the driver's side and passenger's side at different times. Also, at certain times of the day the sun is so blinding in california where I live that it is extremely hazardous to not be able to see the road and highway signs and lights without the assistance of a visor to block the glaring, bright light of the sun. In my estimation it is only a matter of time before this obvious defect causes a major fatality accident.
Both sun visors on our honda civic would not work and then eventually the glue melted and they cracked and fell off. We have no way of securing our visors and have recently heard of a recall. I can't find my VIN number within the limitations of the recall but I don't feel like I should have to pay for the repair.
The drivers side visor stuck and crack opened the plastic assembly by which it holds itself to the visors metal rod in the ceiling. After removal the thing that makes the visor swivel front and back is in fact the thing stuck(metal clip) and seems it may not be secured to the visor which at some point will brake the visor open as it happened , the passengers side visor is starting to get tight.
The drivers side sun visor split open and hanging in front of my eyes. Very hard to see when this is right in your vision field. I hope that I will get this fixed at no charge at the dealership.
Defective sun visor: splits open & won't hold up, obstruct view. This happened multiple times: right side 09/08/08, left side 09/29/08, right side 10/07/11, left side 06/12/12. Honda keeps replacing it with the same defective design. Please read other forums and see that this is a very frustrating issue. When it is broken, there's no way to hold it up but with your hand. Dangerous driving on the freeway like that.
Melting sun visor.
My 2008 honda civic has a notorious problem: defective sun visors that drop down, covering more than half the vertical space of the windshield in front of the driver. The problem, which involves a metal bar that expands in hot weather and forces apart the two sides of the plastic visor, is prone to happen in hot weather. This is the fourth time it has happened to me. A california superior court ruling requires honda to replace these as needed up to 100,000 miles. However, the safety issue remains unaddressed. The replacement is the same as the failed visor, and it too will fail in about 10,000 miles (or less, in severe climates). Two screws hold the visor to the roof of the car. Can't honda be require to design a new visor without this defect (requires only making the channel for the metal bar wider) and replace the visors with an improved version on all affected honda civics (2006-2009)? It is not fun viewing the road ahead by peeking around and under the dropped visor. Honda civics have a severely slanted windshield, and the vertical viewing space is limited without a failed visor.
Driver side sun visor split at hinge along seam. Gravity now drops sun visor into driver's vision to block all sight of cars or traffic lights.
Driver side visor split open (at hinge) when attempting to lower visor to shield driver from sunlight while driving. The visor cannot no longer be returned to storage position.
Drivers side sun visor split open and now droops into drivers vision.
Both sun visors have cracked at hinges. I have to hold visor in place to see traffic light. Should visor be placed to the left of me (driver), it has upon rare occasion swung & hit me in the head. This is dangerous & I hope honda doesn't charge me to replace them as by several other testimonies via the internet, others have had the same issue. I believe these visors to be defective & may cause an accident. I recently found out there was a class action lawsuit regarding said visors & honda should do the right thing & replace my visors free, as I have under 10k miles on the car & take good care of it. Also, the engine block problem should be made into a recall as again, I've seen several complaints online with this issue. Honda gave an extended warranty which will last for 3 yrs after my car is paid off. While this may seem trivial to a huge corporation, it means a lot to those of us on a fixed income. I cannot give you an exact incident date but my car was approximately 1.5 yrs old when the visors cracked (only a month apart). I trusted honda but apparently they didn't wish to share the visor issues with buyers to rectify the situation.
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