2017 Honda Civic acceleration problems

Filed Aug 24, 2026 · Acceleration, Engine · OH

The contact owns a 2017 Honda Civic. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed and exiting the freeway, while approaching a traffic light, the vehicle stalled and lost motive power. The vehicle was driven 50 MPH to a parking lot. Prior to the failure, the HVAC, emission, brakes, assist, and power steering warning lights were illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer, who was unable to determine the cause of the failure. The vehicle had not been diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was contacted, and a case was opened. The failure mileage was unknown.

Filed Aug 14, 2024 · Acceleration, Electrical · CA

The abs speed sensor on honda vehicles are placed in such a way that is breaks often. And when it breaks, it leads to multiple sensors going off which may cause the abs to lock up while braking normally, car accelerating unexpectedly.For me the speed sensor on the right wheel was broken. This lead the car to accelerate unexpectedly and then the sensors would go off. Car accelerating and braking in a weird way would definitely lead to some issues. And when you go to the dealership for this issue, first they won't be able to diagnose it. They will simple reset the codes and say uts an intermittent failure and charge you 100 dollars for nothing. Then you have to go again the other day with the same issue and then they tell you its speed sensor. I think that's a bad service and since honda knows of this beong common issue with how they have placed the sensor it should be recalled.

Filed Jul 27, 2023 · Acceleration, Engine · OH

check engine lights display periodically. The main one involves the fuel injectors. It has been an on going problem for 6-8 months. When I contacted the dealership I was told the part is not available Nationwide at this time and not sure when it will become available. While driving the car can go into "limp" mode where it doesn't let you go above 30 MPH. This problem first started approximately October 2022 after having the vehicle just over 7 months. When I contact the Dealership I was told there was nothing they could do but wait for the part to come in. Meanwhile I am paying for a vehicle that is not safe to drive , yet has no recalls on it. I was told by the Dealership that they have several vehicles at the auto auction that have the same issue that are not selling. I don't understand why Honda has not had a recall on this part. I am stuck with a vehicle ,my only means of transportation, still making payments, and it sits in the garage. Please let me know if there's anything else you need from me.

Filed Jul 6, 2023 · Acceleration, Steering · NC

I am having a problem with my 2017 Honda civic SI, it has been to a Honda service center twice now and continues to have the same problem after having the transmission speed sensor replaced twice now, there was a recall that did not affect my specific VIN but I am having the same problems listed in the recall, the service bulletin number is 18-102, I also have videos showing how the EPS (Electronic Power Steering) light appears on the cluster along with the speed displaying as 0 even though the vehicle is in motion. When the problem occurs initially the steering goes “limp” and is extremely easy to turn as if the steering assist is working too hard then after a few seconds the vehicle proceeds to jerk extremely hard to the left followed up by the speedometer displaying 0 mph, this is extremely frustrating as the car only has around 84k miles and I have only been in ownership of the vehicle for 3-4 weeks as of now (almost 3,000 miles have been put on the car.

Filed Mar 16, 2021 · Acceleration, Engine · 34,300 miles · CA

Tl* the contact owns a 2017 honda civic. The contact stated that on several occasions, the vehicle failed to accelerate as needed. The vehicle would decelerate and then stall. There were several codes displayed on the instrument panel. The contact stated that whenever the failure occurred, the vehicle was reset by restarting the vehicle approximately 3 times or removing and replacing the battery. The contact had not spoken with a dealer. The contact learned of service bulletin: 10142655 (engine and engine cooling, electrical system) however, the vehicle was not included. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 34,300.

Filed Oct 4, 2020 · Acceleration · 27,000 miles · CA

Adaptive cruise control will fail to turn on. After attempting to turn on, accelerator pedal will have .5-1 second delay when attempting to accelerate from stop/idle causing near collisions. Since purchase, there have been 10-15 episodes where I attempt to turn on adaptive cruise control while on the freeway but the system will not engage. I only get 3 beeps and an "acc off" indication on the dash. Once this happens, for the rest of that drive, there is a pedal dead zone/severe acceleration delay when starting from a stop. This delay in acceleration has caused several close calls when pulling out with obstructed views as I press the gas pedal but get no response for what feels like 1 second while another car comes into view and is fast approaching. Once the initial adaptive cruise control failure occurs, acc and traditional cruise control will both fail to start across multiple drives and engine starts. The severe pedal delay will return across engine starts as soon as the acc button is pressed. The only way to recover the functionality of acc and normal cruise control once in this state is to remove power from the battery and wait a minute, then power on the engine and let systems restart. Car has been to dealers close to 10 times for this issue. In consultation with honda techline the following parts have been replaced but problem continues at random intervals: forward looking camera, forward radar sensor, main instrument cluster, pedal sensor, windshield, alternator, battery. Appears to be some kind of software bug in adaptive cruise control system that causes system to crash and not work again until engine computer reset. I'd gladly work directly with honda for troubleshooting, I'm 3-4 people removed when working with the dealership and I feel like all my info is not being communicated correctly.

Filed Jul 6, 2020 · Acceleration, Driver assistance · 23,300 miles · NM

Lane monitoring system provides inconsistent warnings. This has been noted when the vehicle is in motion while I drive through the city and also on the highways. It sometimes without warning adjusts the steering of the vehicle. Brake monitoring system, when it does provide warning, provides warnings so late that a collision would be unavoidable. Tire pressure monitoring system does not provide adequate information to allow for an appropriate response of the driver. No feedback from the calibration mode of the TPMS. Once the system provides its first alarm, doesn't respond well to calibration. My system now alarms about every 60-100 miles. The adaptive cruise control is scary. While it is expected that in especially hilly terrain that the cruise control would vary a bit (a couple of MPH either direction), the system sometimes does not engage, sometimes turns itself off without warning, provides inconsistent warning of when the vehicle interval is not maintained, but the biggest problem is that it does not maintain the set point. For example yesterday, acc set at 42 MPH. Speed limit was 40 MPH. I was descending a hill and manually disengaged the acc when the vehicle speed exceeded 57 MPH. Same trip -- acc set at 67 MPH, speed limit at 65 MPH; acc disengaged manually when vehicle speed approached 76 MPH. Third instance, acc set at 56 MPH, speed limit was 55 MPH, acc manually disengaged at 63 MPH. When acc first engaged, speed is at the set point. Then the system can't maintain the speed and consistently runs 1-2 MPH below the set point. Hence, me setting the acc 1-2 MPH above the speed limit. Believe that these are all part of the honda sensing system which was part of the touring package, which is what I have. The 2017 cr-v models with the same system have a pending class action lawsuit. Honda will not respond to our inquiries.

Filed May 23, 2019 · Acceleration, Driver assistance · 6 miles · CA

The issue I have been having is the brake assist program is breaking when there is no object around causing my car to break for no reason this cause quick use of the break one day its gonna cause someone to rear end me I took this to honda they cant find the issue this happens about 4 times to and from work this is a huge safety concern as well my lane departure assist hasnt work since the day I bought the car to many issues took car to 3 different dealers all the dealers said they reset the system no issues found honda doesnt care about safety at all. These issues happen in motion both on streets and highways

Filed Mar 27, 2019 · Acceleration · 8,300 miles · DE

While vehicle was in motion on an interstate highway while entering a tunnel with no cars immediately in front of it, the collision mitigation braking system(part of honda sensing suite of safety features) activated and significantly braked the car, nearly to a stop, with cars at highway speed behind me. There were pavement markings that appeared to be ground off as a result of recent construction that perhaps the car's sensing system mistook for an object that it thought it could hit, but there was nothing obstructing the car's path. No cars were in front of me. This is not the only time that this system has operated oddly, but it is the first time that it applied the brakes. It has mistook shadows and sun glare as being objects and warned me to brake (albeit momentarily) but the car did not automatically apply braking in those situations.

Filed Feb 6, 2019 · Acceleration, Engine · 9,800 miles · TX

I was driving down I-30 merging on the highway. I put it in sport mode and try to get up to speed but all of a sudden car goes to limp mode. Then would not go over 40mph. I was able to safely pull off from the road turn the car off and back on. Cleared all issues. I took it to the dealer next day and no cel was stored.