2016 HONDA CIVIC — Complaint #1813511
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NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT:APPLIANCE:AIR CONDITIONER filed May 19, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1813511 (ODI reference 11465241) concerns a 2016 HONDA CIVIC and was filed on May 19, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 29, 2022. The report was geocoded to Nevada based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment:appliance:air conditioner, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same HONDA CIVIC cohort independently describe similar equipment:appliance:air conditioner failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2016 HONDA CIVIC shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
In late winter of 2022, the carâs A/C system failed for the fourth time. The car A/C system stopped functioning; it was no longer blowing cool air into the car. The diagnosis was that the A/C compressor was leaking. The A/C compressor was replaced and we were charged $2027. We paid the bill and asked Honda to reimburse us for the amount because after 4 failures in 3 years it was obvious that the Civic A/C system design was flawed. Honda refused to pay for the compressor replacement.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1813511 |
| ODI Number | 11465241 |
| Date Filed | May 19, 2022 |
| Failure Date | March 29, 2022 |
| VIN | 19XFC2F62GE |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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