I drove my car onto a major highway, speed limit 70 MPH. Entering the highway my car accelerated from 70-79 by itself with my ABS kicking in at the same time. Not allowing me to brake. Nearly causing a pile up, I exited immediately turning into a shopping center to park my car. With two passengers in the car with me, I proceeded into the lot, up a hill when I could feel my car accelerating by itself. With my passengers in disbelief, I lifted my right foot in the air so they could see, my car accelerated from 0-21 MPH by itself, up a hill. Scared out of my mind, I pulled my car over and parked it. I contacted honda, took my car in for service only to find out that they "have never heard of this issue before" and that this was their first time looking into such a possibility. A couple days later after they blamed this issue on my "third party floor mats" and advised me to take them out of my car, I did. I drove without the floor mat for two weeks, to make sure that it was my car acting up and not the mats. Sure enough, my car acted up 2 more times in those two weeks. The first time it happened in traffic, in the middle of a bunch of stop lights. I would brake a little too early & attempt to coast in traffic to the car in front of me, I'd take my foot off the brake and the car would fully accelerate all by itself, causing me to slam my brakes. Second occurrence, was when I was getting into my car, turned it on, but never put it into gear or even shut my door, the engine started revving with rpms up in the "reds". Multiple times. After taking my car in a second time, they were once again blaming these problems on my floor mats and that they weren't going to service or take care of anything at all, I am writing this complaint to further enforce that the 2010 honda civic needs to be recalled. The computers are defective and honda is doing absolutely nothing about it.
2010 Honda Civic acceleration complaints
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Pressing the brake pedal also engages the accelerator pedal causing the vehicle to try to move when only the brake pedal is applied. If you press the left side of the brake pedal it doesn't occur however in heavy traffic you always don't have time to make sure you are only pressing the left side of the brake pedal. It almost caused me to have an accident when I first bought the car. I don't feel safe driving the car.
Tl* the contact owns a 2010 honda civic. The contact stated that while parking, there was sudden acceleration. As he depressed the brakes the vehicle slowed down. The vehicle was never taken to the dealer and the manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 1,000.
2010 honda civic clicks/clicks going over speed bumps, coming to stops, turning in driveways, pulling into parking stall everyday since the third month of owning vehicle. Vehicle surges when coming to stops scary at times. Vehicle buzzes intermittently when warming up on cold start. Took to dealership shop to ride with shop foreman. Indicates all normal characteristic of vehicle.
Tl*-the contact owns a 2010 honda civic. The contact was driving approximately 35 MPH approaching a stop signal. The vehicle surged forward and the tachometer increased up to 2 I/2 RPM. The brakes were depressed with force. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where they test drove the vehicle. The technician was unable duplicate the failure. Also, informed the contact whenever the failure occurred to have the vehicle inspected. The failure occurred intermittently. The failure mileage was 508. The current mileage was 923.
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