Honda Civic Owners report strange goings on in the night

I saw in the 2015 Honda Odessa my husband has his key fob in pocket with keys and cards clipped to it with other stuff in pocket, doors open, roofs even at night when he takes pants off and once doors were open when he took fob out of pants. There is a setting that can lock your car and keep doors or roof from opening unless you hit two keys on remote or something like that. Forgot exactly what but doesn’t effect him going to car and use it without fob. I have no trouble because my fobs are in cases and in pocketbook in pockets. Any house key is just one and not interfering. Actually when loses, I couldn’t get my door to open because metal key interfered being close to car. I have 2018 accord touring. No problem now. With regular old fashion key and remote you would press it in your hands ar a certain distances. I like fact car licks itself. Except when driving car that doesn’t and you go back to lock it. Anyhow men have bad habit of having fob floppng in pocket. They were to sensitive. But there are settings on all cars especially suv and vans.

Don't be fooled into thinking that this was your fault. It is most unlikely that the coins in your purse or pocket hit the right combination of buttons on your FOB to inadvertently drop the windows by themselves. Someone, somehow was using their own remote FOB to unlock their car and sent the signal to your Honda to cool down by lowering all windows. The sad part is that this can happen at any time, any where, in any weather: snow, wind or rain. This has not been proven as of yet. No one really knows why and how, but so far, Honda puts the blame solely on the owner and his careless handling of his own FOB. This is not one isolated occurrence. Others share your bad experiences with the downed windows.

This problem seems to be destroying cars of virtually all makes and models and is probably costing consumers millions. If you do a generic search for something like: car windows went down on their own, you'll find all makes suffer from this honda, bmw, lexus, ford... you name it, owner's have been complaining about this issue since 2009. It has been 10 years of property damage cause by a flawed design feature. People have to put their keys/fob somewhere when they exit their cars and pockets and pursues are reasonable and the historic holders for those items. When Honda told me, well, don't put the fob in your pocket, I couldn't believe they actually said that. What am I supposed to do with it, hang it from my nose? Where are the product liability lawyer, people are suffering real financial damage...

I am going through the exactly some scenario! Last Saturday, the same strange occurrence happened with my 2018 Civic Hatchback. I've had the car less than a year, the interior is ruined and my local dealership (not who I purchased from) could care less. Even better, they only have three loaner vehicles and the waiting list has 30 people on it! How are these people still in business? Crowne Honda of Southpoint in Durham, NC is one of the worst car dealership I've ever been to!

This exact same thing happened with my 2018 Honda Civic EX-T!! I came back to find sunroof and all windows rolled down and I even had my keys on the inner desk at work so there NO WAY I touched them — definitely not my fault and definitely not pressing a combination of buttons. I really do believe that someone somewhere did a remote start on their Honda Civic and somehow a glitch out my windows down. This has happened to me twice now since I bought it in October of 2018. If it happens again I’m going to want some compensation or an insurance policy for free if my car gets wet because I’m not going to pay for a wet car if it rains and this glitch happens! No sir! If Honda doesn’t back their cars with integrity I will take my future business elsewhere. I’m in sales and know how important a display of integrity is to consumers, so step it up Honda and roll out a plan for Owners of the models this is effected by. Run some tests and figure out which models are doing this and issue this immediately!

Hello everyone,

This problem was brought to my attention. I have found why this is happening on several Honda Civics throughout the years. Handa has embedded a hidden function on your key fobs. Here is how to reproduce the problem. Being aware of it will solve some headaches.

1 - press the unlock button once on your key fob to unlock the doors.
2 - press and hold the unlock button for 5 seconds.
3 - you will see your windows go down. (Since my Honda Civic doesn't have a sunroof, the windows goes down only. But for those of you that has a sunroof, it may open as well)

Now there may be a way to disable this function in the settings on the radio.

I hope this helps

Hello Tynesha, This option on the Honda cars is standard. I suggest you visit your dealer about this. Since the key fob is sealed, they will be able to check your fobs. If dirt got inside your fob, it may cause the problem.

I recently purchased a 2019 Honda Civic EX. I drove it earlier in the day and parked in my driveway. Fortunately, I went out again at night and lo and behold all four windows were about a quarter of the way down and the sunroof was tilted open.
Oh yeah, and it had been raining. Not too much water, but enough to piss me off.

I thought I was crazy until I read this post. Taking it to the dealer first thing in the morning. WTF.

I have a 2019 Honda Civic sedan. On a very rainy Halloween night I discovered all 4 windows down. My car was completely soaked. I have no idea how long the windows had been down, but it had been atnywhere from one to 24-hours - - when I last used my car. I thought I was losing it. It made no sense, I had never had a lapse like that before. Then today, I came back to my car after a one hour appointment to find all four windows down by 4 inches. Definitely not me. And definitely not the fob, because I don't have a fob!! Something is not right t

I’m leasing a 2017 Honda Civic sedan. Twice now within a 6 month period I have gone out to work each time finding ALL 4 windows down and it raining. I always lock the car with the door switch while getting out of the car. Needless to say this was freaky and disturbing to find, in the dark, and made me apprehensive to get into the car. I had an appointment in a few days for oil change and asked the service department about the situation. He got up from his station, taking my keys and held the lock button down until the windows all went down, therefore blaming the placement of the key fob in my purse or pocket would cause this. Ok I thought until both my husband and myself purposely tried to make the windows go down using the key fob. I didn’t work! I’m not convinced that pressure on the fob is the cause. I don’t believe I will be buying this car simply because if it happens again and again it may get ruined by the weather or stolen. Cannot be to safe nowadays. Honda.....if you are smart enough to come up with all this technology then PLEASE fix all the bugs BEFORE they go to dealership. Also, informing your customers of such probabilities when you know it, would be nice!

I’m having the same problem the rest of these drivers have. Leased 2019 Civic Honda FX. Found all four windows open three times already, and my trunk ajar a couple of times. I believe it’s the computer going haw wire. There’s a class action lawsuit going on. We should join in.

Just woke up to the same issue and it snowed overnight.

Thank you for this. I am staying at Lake Louise and when I went out to my car this morning all 4 windows were down and the car was full of snow. Crazy frustrating but thankfully Boone stole my skis!

I have a 2019 CRV and a 2020 Civic. This morning my CRVs windows were down, I went out and put them up - came back inside and my Civic's Windows were down (they were up just 30 seconds prior. My keys get directly hung up on a rack over night (never in a pocket or purse). There is no way the button (or any button) gets pressed or held. I didn't even know this is a "feature". Seriously, what rationally thinking person thinks it's a good idea to remotely role down your windows?

2016 Civic CVT - This morning immediately after a rain, all 4 windows rolled down and gas cap popped open, plus car locked. I had 2 key fobs in my pocket and put my iPhone in on top of them. I saw this a year ago with a key fob in my pocket as I rode a bicycle next to car as windows rolled down.

The most recent window event was parked mr 2020 Civic coupe in the garage and next morning the windows were down. Key fob was on the counter all night, go figure!
This follows 3 other windows down events since lease began. I have 1350 miles on the new Civic. Neve had this issue with my 2018 Civic.