2015 Honda Civic: grinding or squealing brakes

Filed Oct 7, 2025 · Transmission · OH

Exact problem was recalled for same year for 143,000 vehicles but my VIN was not in the recall. I was diving and vehicle made a loud noise and all the sudden stopped accelerating. It was like my car was in neutral. Put my car in park when I stopped and car started rolling backwards like it wasn’t in park. It finally went into park and I shut car off and restarted tried putting in drive again. It made a loud grinding noise and would not go in drive still acted like in neutral. Had to have car towed from scene. Looked up transmission issues and saw there was a recall for this exact issue.

Filed May 15, 2023 · Transmission · 116,000 miles · NM

The contact owns a 2015 Honda Civic. The contact stated that while her husband was driving at an undisclosed speed, the vehicle lost motive power. The transmission warning light and several other unknown warning lights were illuminated. Additionally, the vehicle made grinding sounds while driving. The vehicle was towed to a friend's body shop. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired by an independent mechanic or dealer. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and advised the contact to tow the vehicle to a local dealer for a diagnostic test. The failure mileage was approximately 116,000.

Filed Feb 5, 2023 · Transmission · IN

At 40mph heard a whining sound followed by grinding. Car lounges forward comes to a brisk stop. Total transmission failure. 127000 miles

Filed Dec 31, 2022 · Transmission · NJ

The car was driving fine until I heard a grinding sound and pulled over to the side of the road. I turned the car off and on again, put it in drive, and pressed the gas pedal but instead of driving the car started to roll backwards down the hill I was stopped on. No check engine or other warning lights came on. I had the car towed to a mechanic who said the transmission was broken and needed to be replaced. The car is outside of the manufacturer's power train warranty but is only 7 years old with 95,000 miles. I was lucky to be driving on a residential road with no other cars around when the transmission failed instead of potentially driving on a busy highway. After having the car repaired I learned that this car once had a recall regarding broken drive pulley shafts. There are 0 open recalls tied to my VIN so I believe the software update recall was performed before I purchased the used car. I'm wondering if the software update was sufficient if the transmission still failed only a few years later.

Filed Dec 2, 2022 · Transmission · 68,000 miles · VA

The contact owns a 2015 Honda Civic. The contact stated that while stopped in first gear, while driving at low speed, the clutch made an abnormal metallic grinding sound. No warning lights were illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where it was diagnosed that the clutch spring needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and the contact was provided a case number. The failure mileage was approximately 68,000.

Filed Sep 13, 2021 · Transmission · CA

This is the 2nd Honda Civic Si that i bought first one was a 2013 and the one i have now is a 2015, I've researched this continuing problem and have found that many other Civic Si's are having this issue as well, when releasing clutch in first gear there's a grinding or clutch spring or clutch fly wheel noise that sounds like it's grinding or making a vibrational noise now when i first heard the issue in my 2013 i didn't put much thought into it, after hearing it more n more i took it into Honda and they told me they couldn't hear the noise so i let it go after a few years i bought a 2015 Civic Si and now this Si is making the same noise in the clutch area when releasing the clutch out of 1st gear, i don't know how in a 2 year difference that the clutch would be making the same noise, this needs to be taken care of it can't be that it's a driver error since many other drivers of this type of vehicle are also complaining of hearing this issue, i would like an investigation started on this to see if the manual transmission that's being used is faulty. I would also like to have my car checked out free of charge to see what the issue is with the transmission.

Filed Jun 19, 2019 · Transmission · 92,000 miles · CA

I was driving on the highway and traffic was slowing down. I was going about 35 MPH. All of a sudden, it felt like I was driving on a rough road. The way it feels when they grind down a road for replacing. I turned my radio off to hear better. It sounded rough and I heard a loud pop. My accelerator then made my engine rev. My car would not accelerate. I pulled off the road and stopped. I put in park and could hear that my engine was running fine. I put into drive and my car would not go but only rev up. My car has 92,000 miles and is my daily commuter. I have serviced the transmission twice and it was due for the third oil change soon. I am an ase certified master mechanic and perform my own services. The oil for tranny service was purchased both times from yuba city honda. I have had no previous issues with this vehicle. Highway miles are known to be easiest on a well maintained vehicle. I am shocked that this happened with no forewarning.

Filed Feb 11, 2016 · Brakes · 27 miles · MD

I first purchased a 2015 honda civic and started hearing this "grinding/creaky" when I pushed down on my brakes, coming from my rear. Don't get me wrong, I am able to use my brakes as I wanted, but when I pushed down on the brakes to put in gear or just pushed down a little too hard, I would hear this noise. Also I noticed, whenever I had a full tank of gas (took me a while to figure this out), I would hear this "thumping" noise. If I do not have gas in my car, I do not hear the noise. I went back to the dealership a total of 3 times. The mechanics told me these were not normal noises, they tried to diagnose my car, if kept my car the last time for 5 days but was unable to get the sound to really go away. I even tired to take it to another honda dealership to get my car looked at, but I was told, "to take my car back where I bought it from because its clear there is a problem, and they didn't want their techs name on it". I was shocked. I went back to the original dealer and they even called the american honda technicians who were of no help. I was fed up and felt unsafe in my car, since I was being told these were not "normal" noises, I asked to trade in my car (same exact year/model). Despite test driving the second car (on an empty gas tank), I didn't hear any noises initially. But now its been a few days and I hear the exact same noises in this car, as I did the first one. I have no idea what to do. I just want a car that does not make any of these noises. I just traded in my car to receive this one I am currently driving on 2/5/16. I have yet to go back to the dealership to let them know of these noises on the 2nd car, because I fear being jerked around again. I reached out to corporate and received a case manager named robin who has yet to get back to me and never returns phone calls. I am desperate to find out these noises.