Other wheel or tire problem on the 2003 Honda Civic
2 crashes 1 injury 3 of the 14 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 2003 Honda Civic report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 55,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 95,000 miles, from 11 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 12th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 15,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 125,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 112,621 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
18% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,500 miles | 44,322 miles | 55,468 miles | 96,000 miles | 125,121 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, 2 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 2003 has 14. 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 have a 2001 honda civic that has firestone p185/65xfr690 tires onit. I had check my tire pressure before leaving for work. All was fine. About 7 miles into my 9 mile drive to work my car acted like a big gust of wind had just hit the front. I pulled over to check out the car. I discouvered that the 2 left tires were low. By the time I got to work the front had gone flat. When I change it with the spare I discovered that the tread had separated from the tire at the inner side wall. I then crawled under my car to examine the other low tire to find it had separated also. When I arrived at the tire store to have all 4 replace atleast one of the other 2 was also showing signs of separation. I retained the tires from the dealer and have them at mey home in aurora.
Driving on 4-lane paved highway rt 17 in essex county va. Operating vehicle at 55 MPH and had driven about 2 hours for a total of 80 miles when the right rear tire (firestone fr 690 p 185/65 r 15 86 h m+s) sidewall separated on both sides of tire. Tire is original equipment on a 2003 honda civic ex purchased 8/23/03 from a honda dealer in wladorf, md. The tire had approximately 12500 miles and was rotated by the dealer and properly inflated at 10,000 mile checkup. Tire was immediately replaced and retained by owner. I have since replaced all 4 tires because or recent complaints filed on this website and recent events with firestone tires. All four tires are available for inspection if necessary. *la
A set of 4 yokohama as 430 tires were purchased from merchant's tire in glen allen, virginia on january 17, 2007. Memphis-based tbc corporation owns merchants tire. On april 12, 2008, the front left tire valve stem catastrophically failed causing the tire to go flat while traveling at highway speed on I-81 near staunton, virginia. It was damaged beyond repair. It had only 10,000 miles service. The tire and valve stem were replaced at the owner's cost. On june 4, 2008 the rear right tire valve stem catastrophically failed in a similar manner. The tire was again destroyed and was replaced. Upon inspection the remaining two original valve stems were failing and were also replaced. I claim that defective valve stems were being installed on tires by the tire dealer during january 2007. *tr
Also reported on the 2003 Honda Civic
Other powertrain problem
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
Other body or interior problem
Other electrical problem
CVT failure
Other speed control problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 14 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 2003 Honda Civic?
Across 11 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 55,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 95,000 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 2003 Honda Civic?
14 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