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2009 Honda Civic engine and engine cooling problems

12 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the engine and engine cooling on the 2009 Honda Civic3% of all complaints for this model year.

12
Engine and Engine Cooling complaints
3%
share of all complaints
13,705 mi
median reported incident mileage
2 / 1
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • While trying to pull into an isle of a parking lot for the purpose of finding a parking space, the engine suddenly accelerated on its own and out of control spinning around, jumping a curb and crashing into a tree, and four other automobiles parked on the parking lot causing property damage to five…

    filed Dec 28, 2014

  • I was at a red light waiting for the green light to turn to the left. When the green light appeared, I accelerated at a speed of 15 when out of no where I heard a boom sound coming from the engine. This seem very abnormal to me since I had barely purchase my car 4 months ago. I took my car to the…

    filed Feb 14, 2013

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.