2016 Honda Civic: false forward collision warnings

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 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 Jul 19, 2019 · Brakes, Driver assistance · 23,000 miles · PA

All systems warning lights pop up on starting the car. I came home parked the car and started it 10 minutes later and all systems warning lights came on. Power steering, parking brake, brake failure, collision mitigation system, TPMS, lane departure system, traction control system, hill assist system, ABS system . All these warnings show up on the dash.

Filed Jun 9, 2018 · Brakes · 15,000 miles · GA

The collision mitigation braking system engages when there are no objects in front of the vehicle. The system has engaged erroneously numerous times, when driving on the highway and at high speeds (65-70 MPH), and the brake engages attempting to bring my vehicle to a complete stop (hard brake). Sometimes I have been able to get it to disengage, but I have had several "close calls" with drivers behind me nearly rear-ending me on the highway when my car unexpected braked (hard). One time, the brakes engaged on the highway with no one and nothing in front of me, and I had to pull over onto the shoulder quickly (to avoid the driver behind me rear-ending me) and got a flat tire as a result. I asked the dealership to fix the issue, but they said they could not get my vehicle to demonstrate/engage in the behavior I was describing, and therefore, said they could not fix it. I also reported it to honda warranty over the phone. They thanked me for reporting it and suggested I contact a dealership to get it fixed - the dealership did not fix it.

Filed Sep 27, 2016 · Driver assistance, Electrical · 7,000 miles · AZ

Purchased a new 2016 civic touring in may 2016. Within a couple of weeks I was having small electrical issues such as screens going black, rebooting, and stereo not working. I would get a failure warning on the dash once in awhile (different each time). Car failed to start on july 26th 2016. All screens were flashing error messages. Car would not start. I called the dealer and had the car towed. Dealer claimed they have never seem this problem. They kept the car for a couple of days and stated there was nothing wrong, and they couldn't replicate the problem. I would continue to have the same small problems with the car every so often. Until, the car slammed on the brakes coming to a complete stop by itself and computer took 100% control of the car. I couldn't steer, accelerate, or control the car at all. I nearly got rear ended in an intersection. There was not a car directly in front of me that would have caused the collision avoidance to brake in order to avoid an accident. After the car came to a complete stop I regained control again and the car operated normal. Soon after, while attempting to start the car I received the all the error codes again and it the car wouldn't start. I again called the dealer and had it towed. Dealer cannot tell me why the car self braked and cannot replicate it. I have an open case# with honda of america. I have told both the dealership and honda of america the car is unsafe to drive. My wife and daughter are both scared for their safety to drive it. No one from my family including myself will be driving the car ever again, nor can I sell it to someone else. They need to purchase the car back from me and find out what is causing this to ensure no one gets seriously injured from this happening again.

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 May 4, 2016 · Acceleration, Driver assistance · 300 miles · TX

While driving the vehicle and using the cruze control in our touring model the systems would fail and the display multiple errors like stability control and collision mitigation have failed. To reset these we had to pull off the road stop the engine and restart. We have videos of the displays. It happened at any speed. The problems started shortly after we purchased the vehicle. We took it to the dealer 7 times and was only fixed after we threatened to proceed we the texas limon law.