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Other wheel or tire problem on the 2006 Honda Civic

6 crashes 4 injuries 10 of the 56 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.

Reports of this failure 56
With an odometer reading 41
Reports per 1,000 built 0.4 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 59%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 10
Typical repair $200–$1,500
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 10th

When other wheel or tire problem gets reported

Owners of the 2006 Honda Civic report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 30,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 15,000 miles and a quarter after 80,000 miles, from 41 reports that carried an odometer reading.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 10th most-reported problem on this model year.

The mileage distribution

The reported range runs from 10,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 130,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 121,000 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.

59% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 41 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
9,000 miles 15,000 miles 29,000 miles 79,132 miles 130,000 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, 6 a crash and 4 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 2006 has 56. 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.

Median
  1. 1996 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 98k
  2. 1997 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 130k
  3. 1998 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 77k
  4. 1999 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 153k
  5. 2000 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 27k
  6. 2001 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 52k
  7. 2002 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 16k
  8. 2003 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 55k
  9. 2004 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 33k
  10. 2005 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 46k
  11. 2006 (this one) 29k
  12. 2007 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 28k
  13. 2008 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 18k
  14. 2009 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 20k
  15. 2010 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 34k
  16. 2011 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 11k
  17. 2012 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 20k
  18. 2013 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 1k
  19. 2014 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 5k
  20. 2015 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 56k
  21. 2016 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 19k
  22. 2017 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 24k
  23. 2018 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 7k
  24. 2019 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  25. 2020 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem 9k
  26. 2021 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  27. 2022 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  28. 2023 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  29. 2024 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  30. 2025 Honda Civic other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —

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.

The rim on the car broke too easily. I ran over a pot hole on the freeway and it cracked the inside of the rim and flattened the tire. The car is one month old and one rim plus the tire will cost $600. *nm

1,483 miles NHTSA complaint 607383 filed 2006-12-25

Tl-caller owns a 2006 honda civic. Current mileage 7000. Failure mileage 6890. While driving on interstate at 70 MPH there was a thumping sound and a shaking from rear of car. Wife was able to steer car off highway and onto shoulder. As she brought vehicle to a stop she could see the passenger side rear wheel wobbling. She had the vehicle towed to dealership. Dealer said wheel hub has failed. Speculated problem was with manufacturer of the wheel hub. Weather was sunny. He does not know the purchase date or engine size. Ktf the dealer replaced the wheel hub. Updated 06/13/07. *jb

6,800 miles NHTSA complaint 624584 filed 2007-05-17

Tl*the contact owns a 2006 honda civic hybrid. While driving 60 MPH, the contact heard road noise. The dealer stated that the rear tires were unevenly worn, but was unable to determine the cause of failure. The dealer advised the contact to not rotate the tires. The current mileage is 22,652 and failure mileage was 22,300. The consumer stated he has reason to believe the problem is the battery pack(between rear seat and trunk) is causing the rear tires to wear unevenly. Updated 07/10/07 *tr

22,300 miles NHTSA complaint 626034 filed 2007-06-01

Also reported on the 2006 Honda Civic

Other visibility problem

229 reports median 45k

Other engine problem

215 reports median 90k

Other suspension problem

93 reports median 35k

Other body or interior problem

71 reports median 56k

Overheating

65 reports median 98k

How far this goes

Complaints are voluntary, so 56 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 2006 Honda Civic?

Across 41 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 30,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 15,000 miles and a quarter after 80,000 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 2006 Honda Civic?

56 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.4 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