2001 Honda Civic EX from North America - Comments

I have 147,000 miles on my 2000 Civic, and it never had anything done other than oil changes till 142,000 miles when I replaced the original battery, did the muffler, and a tune up.

The timing belt will be dealt with shortly too, but I do not believe many of these comments. I have relatives with newer Odysseys, Accords, and Civics and have no trouble either.

I think finding the best car company is doing well in sales and finding how reliable one is how they are doing good in the market place. I do not see Ford or GM up there, and all I hear is "good" reviews on domestics on this site and "bad" ones on imports. Now what are you going to believe in? Well have fun driving your Grand AMm or Pursuit. Just don't look for any second looks!

2001 honda civic... lemon... 107,000 miles... new transmission... always drove toyota and nissan...never again will I get a honda... lemon.

Bought new 2001 Civic for our daughter in Feb. 2002...she has just had to finally replace the transmission this summer, after another mechanic charged a few hundred $ to "flush" the trans. to no avail - probably about 60K miles; thankfully, when we transferred ownership to her name recently, we purchased the extended warranty so there was no cost to her. Very surprised to hear about this problem being typical.

I've loved my civic (so far, anyway, we're up to 60k miles now), but I have one constant complaint: the floor heater doesn't work! I called my dealer (usually very awesome) and they say it's a standard thing with this car that they can't fix. Since I live someplace cold, this is a huge annoyance for me... is mine the only one, or do you all not have floor heat also? Since they won't go in with a torch and a pipe to fix it for me, any suggestions on how I could maybe fix it myself? (I feel like it can be fixed by rerouting air flow somewhere near the origin since when I switch the dial from face to face-and-feet, the flow drops considerably, making me think it SHOULD send air to the floor, but must be redirected outside or something...) Anyway, am freezing since it's December so if anyone has a suggestion, I'd love to hear about it.

Wife's 2001 LX Civic piece of junk. Tranny went at 60K while on an L.A. Freeway overpass with small children in the car. B.S.!!! Refused to cover cost even though always maintained at the same stealership. Shocks/struts never good and now are horrible... feels like riding a shopping cart. Trunk latch is busted and sounds like someone trapped in there while driving. Driver seat only moves back three inches... so if you are over 5ft tall your knees are rubbing the steering wheel.

No one at my wifes job will ride in this thing...

Everyday there is some new piece of plastic breaking, rattling, or falling off. Now the SRS light won't go out. The headliner has been falling off for two years despite my efforts to spray adhere it. Next time I'm offered a Honda I'll run screaming with my shirt over my head and jump off a cliff!!! Engine seems okay for what it's worth.

I have a 2000 Honda Civic with 160,000 miles. I drive about 36,000 miles a year. I do not think there is another compact car other than maybe a corolla that could look at good as mine and still put these miles. I am just a student who commutes to school and I drive it like I stole it.

I have a 2001 Civic EX with automatic transmission.

It has about 109000 miles on it. I bought the car new in August 2001, and took good care of it and was the only driver.

My transmission started slipping about two weeks ago.

I took it to my Honda dealer and was told nothing was wrong with it, but that they did notice the slippage when they brought the car around for me to pick up. They said it was OK to drive and to watch it because it did not seem to be processing the trans fluid properly when it was cold.

Needless to say I took out my car this morning to drive it and it would not go into drive and I had to have it towed to the dealership that now says it needs a new transmission/.

I am highly disappointed in this Honda as I too thought I bought a reliable car and had a 100,000 mile extended warranty, and now they want $2600.oo to put in as transmission.

It is apparent from all the complaints that this car has a defect and HONDA should pay for all the transmission replacements.

I was told that HONDA transmissions never fail. Well, looks like lots have failed on this model.

I feel like I too have a LEMON and HONDA needs to recall these cars for their transmission problems.

My 2001 honda lx tranny needs replacing at 112,000 miles/ took it to dealer at 90,000 and told them to check the tranny, but they said nothing to worry about/ Ha now 3,000 dollars later/ I always took it for scheduled workups and now I will never buy honda again.

I have a 2001 Honda Civic LX, 95,000 miles over the last 7 years. so far I've had only to replace brake pads and get new tires in addition to the normal maintenance. Just recently I was told the front struts are leaking, the front engine mount is broken, boots are broken and control arm bushings are shot. Total cost for these repairs will be about $1000.

I live in the city, hit a lot of potholes, have gone across the country and back four times, have slid out on ice into a guard rail and nearly totaled my car but it was salvaged.

All in all, I'm pretty pleased with the car. After 7 years and 95K miles, it doesn't seem unreasonable to have to sink $1000 into it.

The transmission on my 2001 Honda Civic EX died 5/27/08. The car has 50059 miles on it! I found another site that has over 190 transmission complaints for this year and model. That site also had complaints for some of the other issues I have had with this car. I had a Chevy Corsica before this car and it had over 100,000 before I had to rebuild the tranny.

I'm not a fan of automatic transmissions in compact cars like Honda Civics. I consider most people lucky if they make it to 100,000 miles on the original trans. The people I know that have over 200k miles on a compact car have had manuals, not automatics.

I have a 2001 Honda Civic Ex and on my way home from work, I felt the car not picking up speed. I stop by a gas station and the young man drove the car and he check my transmission fluid and found that it was full, he stated I think you need a new transmission. With 60k I think this is unbelievable. I don't think Honda is standing behind their parts.

I have a 2000 honda civic with 75,000 miles on it bought it used not a problem with it I drive it hard and fast everyday besides oil changes every 3000 miles wouldn't drive anything else very reliable car its also a 5-speed handles well in curves that is if ya have good tires lol :) had a accord before this with 247,000 miles I sold it for 1500.00 to a student she still has it running with close to 300,000 miles so believe me if it was a chevy or ford it would be sitting in the junk yard rusting out Hondas, Acura best cars you can buy for the money hondas also have a good resale value,

I got a 2001 Civic EX for graduation.

Ever since 68000 miles the transmission has slowly been getting worse to drive on from it slipping and I am waiting for it to go out. Never thought this could come from Honda.

I will never buy a Honda. This car has been nothing but problems, and I baby the thing.

I would be happy if they paid for half the cost; I will now be out all my tax return plus more.

I have 01 Civic with about 116k on it and my clutch started slippin also and it stalled on me (auto tranny) and to make this long story short, I was told I need a new transmission. Going with a rebuilt now.