Brakes complaints and recalls from NHTSA
Summary
The 2016 Honda Civic has 49 NHTSA brakes complaints and 1 brakes-related recall.
49
Complaints
1
Recalls
0
Injuries Reported
Data source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) · Last updated April 9, 2026
16V725000
PARKING BRAKE
Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain model year 2016 Honda Civic two door and four door 1.5L turbo and 2.0L vehicles. The electric p...
| Date ↓ | Component | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2024 | SERVICE BRAKES, AIR,SERVICE BRAKES | The contact's parent owns a 2016 Honda Civic. The contact stated that while the parent was parking i... |
| Oct 29, 2023 | SERVICE BRAKES | Honda knew of an issue with their Electronic Parking Brake system which required a software update p... |
| Mar 18, 2023 | SERVICE BRAKES | Emergency brake failed and gives following code in the dash: Red blinking light- BRAKE Yellow light... |
| Feb 28, 2023 | SERVICE BRAKES, AIR | The contact owns a 2016 Honda Civic. The contact stated while driving 55 MPH, the vehicle shuddered,... |
| Feb 28, 2023 | SERVICE BRAKES | ABS malfunction. The malfunction problem showed up on the dash and the car would not drive properly... |
| Sep 19, 2022 | SERVICE BRAKES | I HAVE CONTACTED HONDA ABOUT THE ( EPB) PROBLEM. THEY REFUSES TO AKNOWEDGE THE ISSUE BECAUSE MY VIN ... |
| May 20, 2022 | SERVICE BRAKES | BRAKES they stop too slow and I need to push fes time to made it stop, that made me very insecure an... |
| Oct 16, 2021 | SERVICE BRAKES | I'm the original and only owner of the vehicle, which has less than 36,000 miles. My Civic has only... |
| Aug 29, 2021 | SERVICE BRAKES | Brake and brake system came on and I was unable to reverse |
| May 10, 2021 | SERVICE BRAKES | 2016 HONDA CIVIC EX-T AFTER GETTING BRAKES AND ROTORS REPLACED THE 'BRAKE SYSTEM' LIGHT STAYS ON WI... |
| Dec 1, 2020 | SERVICE BRAKES,ENGINE,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE | TRANSMISSION REPLACED TWICE WITHIN 2 MONTHS. VEHICLE MAKES LOUD NOISES. VEHICLE NOT SAFE TO DRIVE. T... |
| Oct 27, 2020 | SERVICE BRAKES | WHILE DOING NORMAL CITY DRIVING IN EARLY MORNING, I DROVE OVER METAL PLATES ON THE STREET WHICH HAD ... |
| Jun 19, 2020 | SERVICE BRAKES | TL* THE CONTACT OWNED A 2016 HONDA CIVIC. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS IN PARK WITH THE I... |
| Feb 28, 2020 | SERVICE BRAKES | MY STATIONARY CAR WAS PARKED ON A FLAT SURFACE IN THE GARAGE. I WENT INSIDE WHEN MY NEIGHBOR INFORM... |
| Jun 17, 2019 | SERVICE BRAKES | CAR DID NOT START, AND FLASHED WARNING SIGNS FOR ELECTRONIC BREAK MALFUNCTION. CAR WAS STATIONARY IN... |
| Jun 9, 2019 | SERVICE BRAKES | HAD BRAKES DONE CAR RAN PERFECTLY FINE UNTIL I DROVE ABOUT 71 MILES OUT PARKED CAR AND GOT BACK INTO... |
| Jun 8, 2019 | SERVICE BRAKES | PARKING DOES NOT START ELECTRIC PARKING BRAKE PROBLEM |
| May 14, 2019 | SERVICE BRAKES | THE PARKING BRAKE ACTIVATES RANDOMLY WITHOUT MY MANUALLY ACTIVATING IT. IT DOESN'T HAPPEN EVERYDAY B... |
| May 7, 2019 | SERVICE BRAKES | BRAKE LIGHT CAME ON FLASHING, BRAKE SYSTEM LIGHT, AND ERROR ON PANEL ELECTRIC PARKING BREAK FAILURE.... |
| May 5, 2019 | SERVICE BRAKES | WHILE DRIVING MY VEHICLE THE BRAKES SLIDE (VIBRATE A LITTLE) THIS DOESN'T ALWAYS OCCUR BUT WHEN IT D... |