Other wheel or tire problem on the 1997 Honda Civic
1 crash 1 injury 2 of the 28 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other wheel or tire problem gets reported
Owners of the 1997 Honda Civic report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 130,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 55,000 miles and a quarter after 145,000 miles, from 8 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 3rd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 25,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 160,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 136,357 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
13% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25,543 miles | 54,015 miles | 130,324 miles | 146,000 miles | 161,900 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $200–$1,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 24 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2013, at a median of 1,100 miles, and latest on the 1999 at 155,000 miles.
By volume the 2007 carries the most reports, with 81; the 1997 has 28. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
I purchased an automobile from equitable car sales approx 2 years ago "as is". Recently, I took my vehicle in to a local shop for an oil change and they advised me that all 4 of my wheels on the car were cracking due to someone installing them too tightly. I called the dealership and they won't do anything about it since it was sold "as is". Now, I am unable to even drive the car without taking the chance of one or all 4 of the wheels completely coming off.
On 10/2/2003 I purchased four dunlop g/t qualifier tires size p205/40r-16 from discount tire, see invoice enclosed. On 9/27/2004 I was having a routine oil change done on my car at right honda scottsdale arizona when the following was discovered. Three out of the four tires had cracking on the inside bead which if not caught in time could have caused a blow out. Please look at the right honda invoice under tech notes that will document what I am describing. I have talked to discount tire and dunlop they prorated my tires charging me $214.88 for new tires and a different brand of tire. I kept the tires properly inflated aligned rotated and balanced and have all my receipts so I know I did everything correct on my end. My main concern for writing to the consumer information and complaints department is the following. These tires were defective and I could have been in a serious accident. Also, more people that have these tires could unknowingly be at risk. Please advise me of your findings, jeffrey j. Uddo 6755 e. Phelps rd. Scottsdale, az 85254 480-699-9916 discount tire corporation 20225 n. Scottsdale rd. Scottsdale, arizona 85255…
While driving 70 MPH, with the driver only, vehicle commenced to vibrate/shake from the back. Consumer was able to drive the vehicle off the main freeway, and noticed that right rear tire showed that tread was completely separated from the sidewall. After market tires installed at 36,060 miles, tire size p185/65r14, DOT# ac763jd2500. The tire was mounted on a honda civic 1997 vehicle. Consumer has the tire available for analysis, and the tire dealer was notified. *ak
Also reported on the 1997 Honda Civic
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
Other speed control problem
Other visibility problem
Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure
Other body or interior problem
Other powertrain problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 28 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other wheel or tire problem happen on the 1997 Honda Civic?
Across 8 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 130,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 55,000 miles and a quarter after 145,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other wheel or tire problem on the 1997 Honda Civic?
28 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed