8th Gen Issues - Shame on you Honda

[howy]

07 civic sport manual
driver and passenger windows not wanting to rise - fixed this with a quick spray of lithium grease while the window was down.
occasional rattle from passenger side door area - could be the seat belt banging while unclipped.
seat belt warning chime failing to sound sometimes - must be something wrong inside the drivers side buckle.
CD stacker loves to keep cds. press eject and it swallows the cd as soon as it ejects it. you need to be real quick or prepared to fight it. ling ling will battle CD monster.
and while im having a whinge, i can NOT remotely open my boot, where is the button on the key for this? a bloody falcon has this option.

Does anyone know how to remove these little yellow spots on my lovely white paint? looks like bee poo. could be bird droppings. can not get it off with soap, orbital polisher, or fingernail even!

most likely tree sap or dew...

i have the same problem with my white civic. gonna wash the car tmr even though there's a chance of rain

the window not rising properly or derailing is quite a common issue, but easily fixed by the dealer. took less than 10 mins to get it up and working again. they basically put some grease or lubricant in and that's it.

[jpestrada115]

thanks to all of you for noting these FD issues.

it was not until that i read your inputs here that i became conscious about these issues. i think the "driver-side window getting stuck" issue is about to happen to my FD (VTi; almost 3 months old) as i can hear the motor whining with effort when opening and closing the window. did my bit to prevent that from happening yesterday - grabbed a $9 can of silicone lubricant spray and sprayed the window channels/rails. definitely cured it! the motors sound to be not exerting effort in winding the windows up and down.

anyway, that's just the issue that i've encountered on my FD so far. haven't encountered any of the other issues noted in this thread. everything is OK and i'm happy with the car.

[MrSteve]

Ok read through this whole post lol.

1. 30k not much money for a new car? To the 'average' working man, this is a lot of money, and takes 5 years to pay back normally. I think cars are overpriced myself and this may seem like a cheap car, but damn, 5 years to pay something back isn't cheap to me.


Ive had my my08 civic for close to a week now (650ks) After reading this thread, the only problem I have is my sterring veering off to the left. Keep it steady, take your hands off, goes to the left every time.

Other than that everything seems ok. I did have a loud bang happen once, I figured I ran over something lol. Hasn't happened since though.

My windows are fine also, I havn't used em often cause the dealershiop 'assured' me my 'darkest tinting' will get dark after a month, yet still looks light as shit to me.

[denot]

1. 30k not much money for a new car? To the 'average' working man, this is a lot of money, and takes 5 years to pay back normally. I think cars are overpriced myself and this may seem like a cheap car, but damn, 5 years to pay something back isn't cheap to me.

I feel ya brother!!!!

[gerard]

Guys, CD player just started playing up. would not give up cd 5 and 6. but otherwise works with cd 1 to 4.

what gets me going is that local honda dealer can only book me in in one and half months time just to confirm the snag.
anyone else have their stacker playing up and whats the fix?, Does Honda warrant them for the 3 years or just the first year?

[warwick108]

steering turning left from stand still? isnt this due to torque steer?.. =S

[smithy_1]

my vti-l has a slight pull left also. It can't be due to torque steer when you're not on the accelerator (no torque). Wheel alignment after 1000k improved it but it is still there slightly. Dealer says bring it back for another look, which I have not done yet.

Is there a known issue regarding pulling to the left???

[gerard]

The propensity of the FD to follow road camber is well documented. It would seem the suspension geometry makes this so and probably something we need to live with.

On another note, the CD player coughed up a "hairball" the 6th cd after numerous stabs of the eject button and now seems to work like nothing toward had happened.

[denot]

The propensity of the FD to follow road camber is well documented. It would seem the suspension geometry makes this so and probably something we need to live with.

Gerard, I'm noob @ suspension stuff but... will this problem fixed if we change the whole suspension? (coilovers?)

On another note, the CD player coughed up a "hairball" the 6th cd after numerous stabs of the eject button and now seems to work like nothing toward had happened.

I think this one is becoz of the CD Stacker is too dirty... I opened my friends sports to change into Double Din, and found out that the CD Stacker is soo dirty (he complains that one of the Disc cant eject as well)

[gerard]

Gerard, I'm noob @ suspension stuff but... will this problem fixed if we change the whole suspension? (coilovers?)

Can't tell for sure but doubt it unless there is change in toe/chamber or castor.



I think this one is becoz of the CD Stacker is too dirty... I opened my friends sports to change into Double Din, and found out that the CD Stacker is soo dirty (he complains that one of the Disc cant eject as well)

Good thing to know

[buddah51au]

[QUOTE=gerard;1854202]The propensity of the FD to follow road camber is well documented. It would seem the suspension geometry makes this so and probably something we need to live with.

Cars that have a tendancy to follow the camber of the road is a problem that has been around since the first radial tyres were introduced. The causes are many and varied, mainly because every road has slight differences in the amount of camber they have. On cars with a fully adjustable front suspension this could be almost eliminated by playing with the castor angles, most modern cars dont give you that option. Also a square shouldered tyre is more susceptable to this problem than a round shouldered tyre. Another common thought especially in the early days of radial tyres was the belts within the tyre carcas not being perfectly centralised as on many occasions swapping front tyres from side to side could accentuate the problem / rectify the problem / or even cause the vehicle to pull to the opposite side. Personally i do not have this problem with my FD1.

[SPEEDCORE]

Interesting thread.... given all the dissing of Thai assembled Hondas, I'm surprised no one has blamed Honda of North America for the design.