Hi!! I drive about 20,000 km
Hi!! I drive about 20,000 km a year (the car had 37,000 km or so on it when I bought it). I have been to two separate dealerships about the ignition problem - one service tech was actually a high school peer who had my best interest in mind and has helped me tremendously!!! I feel horrible for him as I didn't purchase our CRV from his dealership in spite of all he has done, but since we lost so much equity we had no alternative to go with the best offer. HE is the reason we also decided to stay with Honda, he's such a wonderful advocate for his company. With respect to the ignition, I begged the first dealership to document the problem after she encountered it while driving it out of the service bay, but failed to do so - sucks to be me. If you YouTube 2011 Honda Civic you can find a few other individuals that have the same problem also. Randomly, sometimes 5 occurrences in one day (not even consecutively, but can be), and then sometimes it won't show for five weeks - sometimes within days of one another. You turn the key to begin the start up, you hear a click, the dash lights up and nothing happens. I have 1000 theories, but then I debunk them. We disconnected the ION box/rust prohibitor, I thought it was damp days, or immediately after filling the car, or when it's empty, or squeezing in an extra teaspoon of fuel at the pumps, short trips, not driving for a day or two.... there is absolutely no rhyme or reason to this problem which makes it so frustrating for everyone, including Honda. But in the end it would have been me stuck with the problem so I had to make a decision on what I needed to do for possible future safety (eg. the GM ignition problem, although It's NOT the same problem, has scared the life out of me). It saddened me about the deficiency in the Civic, as my husband had FINALLY convinced me to go with a different car company other than GM, only to experience, what seems to be for me, poor quality. My husband has a Caravan, now with 200,000, and it amazes me that the only thing to go wrong in 9 years was a fan and some rust - he treats that van soooooo badly!!!!! Every GM car I have owned was in the shop for something on a regular basis - and they weren't cheap cars - my Grand Prix was a fortune! (still my favourite car to date). My father worked for the company for YEARS, it was just something I had a horrible time transitioning from.