Quote Originally Posted by aaronng View Post
BTW, my friend's Civic Sport doesn't have the rattles that you describe, hasn't lost any trim parts and the driver door closes fine. If you have a lemon, then it is not representative that the made in Thailand Civic is inferior in quality (build quality and quality control). You need high number of failures across a large number of owners before you the model will be considered by HA to have a legitimate problem. Even the very common engine block problems in the SS blocks in the VX gen was not acknowledged by Holden as a legitimate defect.
that is true... no amount of complaining on my part will change the fact that i am only one customer. i never have and never will try to convince people that the problem applies to all honda civics, because it doesn't. the purpose of this thread is to say that my particular car has many faults, i am unhappy about it and honda australia is sitting on its arse about it.

a precedent has been set though - one of my friends just found out about another friend who, after having the same problem 9 times with his honda, managed to get a full replacement. i'll be following up on that lead with keen interest

in reality the only gain i can get is that replacement. whether or not i get the replacement, i'll probably be selling the car off, or possibly even trading it in at the same service centre where they'll be unable to reduce the value of my trade-in because it rattles. (i wouldn't be surprised if they find rattles while doing a valuation on my car!)