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Brakes · 2 owner reports

Loss of braking on the 2017 Honda Civic

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 2
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $400–$3,000
What it means when it happens Critical
Rank among this year's problems 47th

When loss of braking gets reported

There are 2 reports of loss of braking on the 2017 Honda Civic. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 47th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $400–$3,000 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.

This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 16 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2004, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2006 at 145,000 miles.

By volume the 2016 carries the most reports, with 16; the 2017 has 0. 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 loss of braking
    no odometer readings given
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  2. 1997 Honda Civic loss of braking
    no odometer readings given
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  3. 1998 Honda Civic loss of braking 115k
  4. 2000 Honda Civic loss of braking 35k
  5. 2001 Honda Civic loss of braking 104k
  6. 2002 Honda Civic loss of braking 140k
  7. 2003 Honda Civic loss of braking 88k
  8. 2004 Honda Civic loss of braking 3k
  9. 2005 Honda Civic loss of braking 42k
  10. 2006 Honda Civic loss of braking 146k
  11. 2007 Honda Civic loss of braking 30k
  12. 2008 Honda Civic loss of braking 38k
  13. 2009 Honda Civic loss of braking 22k
  14. 2010 Honda Civic loss of braking 31k
  15. 2011 Honda Civic loss of braking 14k
  16. 2012 Honda Civic loss of braking 72k
  17. 2013 Honda Civic loss of braking 27k
  18. 2014 Honda Civic loss of braking
    no odometer readings given
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  19. 2016 Honda Civic loss of braking 23k
  20. 2017 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  21. 2018 Honda Civic loss of braking
    no odometer readings given
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  22. 2019 Honda Civic loss of braking 9k
  23. 2022 Honda Civic loss of braking
    no odometer readings given
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  24. 2024 Honda Civic loss of braking
    no odometer readings given
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Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2017 Honda Civic

Other steering problem

97 reports median 42k

Air conditioning failure

86 reports median 39k

Other engine problem

56 reports median 17k

Other electrical problem

43 reports median 22k

Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure

31 reports median 57k

Other body or interior problem

29 reports median 9k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 2 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 2 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.

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