2016 Honda Civic: adaptive cruise control problems

Filed Jun 9, 2026 · Brakes, Driver assistance · WI

Car suddenly had many warning lights. A red “BRAKE” light flashes. Lane keep and adaptive cruise stopped working. The steering feels numb and doesn’t return to center. Took to dealer for diagnostic. They reported a VSA computer module failure. Researching VSA failure I found there is a company that will overhaul used / non working VSA units. The repair involves resoldering connections that work loose from normal driving. The design is awful and it’s not surprising these units fail. Gasket material is pressed directly against the solder joints.

Filed Jun 10, 2025 · Brakes, Driver assistance · CA

Warning display of the following on the dashboard: Early lane departure mitigation problem collision mitigation system problem brake system mitigation Adaptive cruise control problem lane keeping assist problem

Filed Mar 29, 2024 · Acceleration, Brakes · CA

I have noticed for a while now. When the light turns green or I'm at a stop and I have enough time to take off the car does not move when I apply the gas. It stalls and that scares me. I have noticed my cruise control shut off the other day when driving on the freeway. And I could not turn it back on. Now when I try to apply the parking bake when I'm parked the parking brake does not turn on nor the brake hold. The lights keep flashing than turn odd My headlight in the front and back passenger don't work. I've switched out the bulbs and it's an electrical problem. I see recalls on some of these matters but honda won't do nothing because it's not on their system when I bought this car in 2016.

Filed Jul 29, 2022 · Driver assistance · SC

Adaptive cruise control as well as automatic braking has come close several times to cause an accident on the highway. Sometimes a truck will be passing me in the left lane and the car will all of a sudden slam on brakes when there is nothing in front of me almost getting rear ended from the car behind me. Even when the cruise control isn’t set the automatic breaking will activate randomly when a large truck is passing me. I purchased this vehicle used and reported this to the dealer time of purchase but they did not fix it. But at the time it was not as noticeable. The car has less than 100,000 miles. The lane departure does not work pulling the car to oncoming traffic. In oncoming traffic in left lane it constantly causes the automatic breaking light to flash. This also randomly kicks off the cruise control. This situation seems to be getting worse. The form below is asking for a date that these incidents happen and does not give a place to say it happens every day, it’s only asking for a specific date. One day this is going to cause a severe accident.

Filed Oct 28, 2019 · Acceleration, Brakes · 15,000 miles · PA

When driving the car in certain situations the car will momentarily apply the brakes automatically rather hard for a period of a second or less. This occurs when on a highway and driving with the adaptive cruise control engaged and when passing a tractor trailer truck. It appears to happen only under certain situations such as sunlight angle and the color or reflection from the truck are interfering with the cars sensing brakes can also be automatically applied rather hard when exiting a highway ramp without using a turn signal. This can happen without the adaptive cruise control applied so I suspect it is related to the collision avoidance feature. I have owned this car since new and these events have occurred more then a dozen times. On a trip driving from florida to pennsylvania on rt 95 it happened about 5 times. Very frightening to have the brakes applied spontaneously at 70 miles/hr when passing a truck. I have asked about this during service at a honda dealer and they reported everything was working properly.

Filed Jun 10, 2019 · Brakes · CO

Had brakes done car ran perfectly fine until I drove about 71 miles out parked car and got back into car turned it on again to head back home when anti brake system warning lights came on this is electric parking brake problem, brake system problem, brake hold system problem. The brake system light stays on and when accelerating the red brake light flashes until the car is either placed on cruise control or comes to a complete stop on on drive reverse it does not flash.

Filed Nov 9, 2018 · Acceleration · 15,206 miles · WA

The vehicle cruise control picks up speed when going down hill. The honda dealership stated that the vehicle is a base model and does not have adaptive cruise control, therefore, according to them, is working as designed. The "design" has a serious safety flaw as the driver must constantly be aware of the terrain and speed of the vehicle which seems to negate the use of a cruise control. I experienced several frightening situations while on a road trip from yellowstone national park to seattle this summer. The car was gaining as much as 20-30 MPH on steep, mountainous terrain resulting in dangerous speeds. I discontinued use thinking that this "feature" was malfunctioning. I can not believe the dealer's response that the cruise control was working as designed is in the interest of public safety or the truth. I was left with no other recourse but to file this report.

Filed Apr 6, 2018 · Electrical · NC

2016 honda civic. Consumer writes in regards to software issues resulting from new camera and software programming installation. *ld *js the consumer stated the adaptive cruise control, GPS, lane keep assist, and the road departure mitigation were intermittently inoperable. *js

Filed Aug 28, 2017 · Acceleration · 14,000 miles · PA

Adaptive cruise control does not break car when car ahead slows. System throws 'collision braking mitigation system', 'lane keeping assist', and 'adaptive cruise control' warnings. Dealer has attempted to repair without success.

Filed Jun 23, 2016 · Brakes, Electrical · 5,613 miles · CA

Vehicle has repeatedly thrown errors with warnings to not drive the vehicle and have it inspected by the dealer. The vehicle has already been to the shop twice for the problem. In both cases honda installed an updated vsa modulator they claimed would fix the problem. It has not. Not the local dealer doesn't even want to see the vehicle as they tell me their is nothing more they can do for us. They claimed to have emailed honda corporate to have a regional rep contact us. It has been 4 days since. They say the vehicle is safe, but yet they don't even know what is wrong with it. The vehicle has a defect they cannot correct, and my car is not alone. Please look at these two sites to see examples: http://hondacivicproblems.com and http://www.civicx.com/threads/TPMS-ABS-brake-system-acc-freak-out.1002/ each time the vehicle is not in motion. Each time the error messages appear after starting the vehicle. Each time the warnings instruct you not to drive the vehicle. Errors include: cmbs problem, adaptive cruise control problem, tire pressure monitor system, brake system problem, anti-lock brake system, tire pressure low, and charging system problem.

Filed Jun 2, 2016 · Driver assistance, Electrical · 1,300 miles · IN

There are three problems I want to complain: 1) information screen flickers for 10 minutes after starting the engine. I sent it to dealer shop, but they said that they never heard of such a problem, and had no solution. The problem happened at least three times per week in the past two months. 2) information screen shows six different warning messages after starting the engine, including ABS failure, vsa failure, low battery level, collision mitigation failure, adaptive cruise control failure etc. I took it to the dealer, the reason they told me is that they had one of my tires replaced one week before and TPMS had not been reset correctly. However, why it took two weeks for the system to give the warning messages instead of right after tire got changed? 3) TPMS failed to detect flat tire. I was driving a car with one flat tire for 1 mile, and the TPMS even failed to detect the flat tire.

Filed Jun 1, 2016 · Acceleration, Brakes · 5,164 miles · CA

Computer system had a major malfunction, triggering 6 different warnings, and an audible message to immediately pull over and park the vehicle and have a dealer inspect the vehicle. This happened after filling up the vehicle with gas. My family was in the vehicle with the car in accessory mode, listening to the radio. After finishing up fueling, about five minutes later, I returned to the vehicle. I got in, shut the door, put my foot on the brake, pressed the button to start the vehicle, put on my seat belt, and then saw the messages. After a few minutes with the car on and reading the messages, a voice started to talk and tell me, to stop the vehicle, park it, and have a dealer look at it. The 6 messages on the center display said various things. Such as they were titled: adaptive cruise control problem the pressure monitor system cmbs problems anti-lock brake system problem tire pressure low brake system problem the alarming number of problems about the brake system alone, tells me this vehicle should not be driven. Combine that with the audiable message about pulling over and parking the vehicle, no one in their right mind is going to drive it until it is properly looked at. The dealer did look at it, and said it was the vsa modulator, and needed to be replaced. However, there is case after case of this not fixing the problem found online. Yet people and their families, including mine are being sent back onto the road in these vehicles of which honda has not and cannot provide a fix for because it, itself does not know what the problem is. Any therefore no one knows if their car is crying wolf, and just waiting to kill them. I don't want my car if I can't trust it. I just can"t wager my families lives on that. They are willing to tell us to drive around in the vehicle even before the first repair is tried. The errors are related to brakes