2013 HONDA CIVIC — Complaint #2132497
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:ANTILOCK:ABS WARNING LIGHT filed September 21, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2132497 (ODI reference 11688767) concerns a 2013 HONDA CIVIC and was filed on September 21, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 11, 2025. The report was geocoded to Missouri based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:antilock:abs warning light, 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 service brakes, air:antilock:abs warning light 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 2013 HONDA CIVIC shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Several warning lights on the dashboard illuminated: powersteering warning, ABS system warning, VSA warning. We had to pay almost $300 for dealer diagnostics which advised our ABS VSA module must be replaced, reprogrammed and brake fluid bleed otherwise our ABS brake system would fail. There are hundreds of similar complaints on-line of Honda owners with the exact issue costing over $3000 to make the repair. It will cost us almost $2600 for the repair. This appears to be a defect in Honda's VSA Module circuitboard across several models (Accord, Civic).
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2132497 |
| ODI Number | 11688767 |
| Date Filed | September 21, 2025 |
| Failure Date | September 11, 2025 |
| VIN | 19XFB2F80DE |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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