2012 Honda Civic common problems
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration holds 454 owner complaints and 3 recalls for the 2012 Honda Civic. WrenchReport clusters those complaints into repeating failure patterns and prices each one from documented repair costs. In this record, 55 complaints report a crash and 5 report a fire.
Severity tally
6 Mechanic's Warnings for this build.
No Catastrophic pattern is on record — but 4 Expensive ones are.
Highest documented repair cost: $6,500
Expensive
Air bag and restraint faults
$900-$2,500Air bag modules, sensors or inflators may not deploy when needed, or deploy without impact. Open recalls on this component are corrected free at a dealer.
157 matching complaints
Steering faults
$400-$1,600Electric power steering units and tie rods can fail in a way the driver feels as a heavy wheel, a clunk or a pull.
80 matching complaints · recalls 12V548000
Stalling and sudden loss of power
$600-$2,400Fuel delivery, sensors or throttle body faults can cut the engine without warning. The car stalls in traffic, which is a safety problem before it is a repair bill.
21 matching complaints
Transmission failure
$3,800-$6,500Clutch packs or valve body wear out early on this build. The transmission slips, shudders or drops gears, and the repair is a rebuild or a replacement unit.
1 matching complaint · recalls 12V256000
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Electrical faults
$150-$900Battery drain, alternator, wiring and sensor faults cluster here. Individually small, they strand the car and mask other failures.
70 matching complaints
Wipers, defrost and visibility
$120-$450Wiper motors, defrost grids and glass faults cut visibility in rain. Complaints cluster around sudden wiper failure.
15 matching complaints
These are the 2012 Honda Civic's patterns. Your car either has them or it does not.
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Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation complaint and recall databases, read today for the 2012 Honda Civic. A pattern documented for a build is not a diagnosis of any one car.