2006 HONDA CIVIC — Complaint #630197
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE:BELTS AND ASSOCIATED PULLEYS filed July 11, 2007
NHTSA complaint #630197 (ODI reference 10196142) concerns a 2006 HONDA CIVIC and was filed on July 11, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 10, 2007. The vehicle had 36,929 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:engine:gasoline:belts and associated pulleys, 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 engine and engine cooling:engine:gasoline:belts and associated pulleys 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 2006 HONDA CIVIC shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2006 HONDA CIVIC AT THE TIME OF INCIDENT HAD 36,929 MILES ON IT. VEHICLE LOST ALL POWER. DEALERSHIP FOUND WATER PUMP BROKE,CAUSING THE SERPENTINE BELT TO SNAP AND THE TENSION ROD TO BREAK. THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF PROBLEMS BEFORE THE VEHICLE BROKE DOWN. VEHICLE STARTED TO SMOKE. HONDA DEALERSHIP HAD TO REPLACE WATER PUMP, SERPENTINE BELT AND TENSION ROD. DEALERSHIP FELT WATER PUMP SHOULD NOT HAVE BROKEN AT THIS MILEAGE. I WAS ADVISED LATER BY ANOTHER DEALERSHIP THAT HONDA HAD CASTING PROBLEM WITH ENGINE BLOCK. SAME THING HAPPENED TO THE BOSS, ENGINE BLOCK CRACKED AND HAD TO BE REPLACED. THE HONDA WAS THE SAME YEAR AND APPROXIMATELY THE SAME MILEAGE. *AK
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 630197 |
| ODI Number | 10196142 |
| Date Filed | July 11, 2007 |
| Failure Date | June 10, 2007 |
| VIN | 1HGFA16846L |
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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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