Well like the rest of us Civic owners the clear coat is flaking away been noticing this issue for over a year now, its gotten a lot worse, The roof is now flaking towards the rear window and the trunk lid is doing the same thing, no matter how many times you wash and wax the car, the clear coat is slowly coming off. I have owned other cars with higher miles that this one and never had this sort of issue before. Next year this car will be replaced anyways, ill think twice before buying another honda product again. Honda knows of this defect with the clear coat and the paint they used.
I bought my car brand new in 2004. Got ten years I lived in Westerville I always take care of my car. I always took my car to the local Roush Honda where I bought my car. Oil changes, all my mileage check ups. Today I have 79,795 thousand miles on my car. In 2014 my daughter notice my car was peeling right around the windows, I didn't think much of It. But today it just looks really bad.
I took it to my Roush dealership to see what was going on, and they said it was going to cost me 3 thousand dollars to get repainted. Never letting me know that it was a manufacturer problem. He also said, why put 3 thousand dollars in a paint job, better to buy a new car. So I took the car to shop in my neighborhood. He saw the car and he knew exactly what the problems was. He had seen the problem in Honda Civics. He told me about the gloss eating away the paint. I asked him about recalls, he said there were know recalls. To do a good job It would cost 5,000 dollars.
All my kids have new cars, there question to me is does Honda realize how bad this look. For Honda it's just really bad marketing.
We find it funny to see how many cars like ours are on the road with the paint issues as well. We have found it is mainly the darker colors like our blue and the dark green.
I have a 1996 Honda with 465,000 miles that doesn't have this issue.
This started slow and quickly expanded to cover the whole roof. As of this writing it is now starting to show itself on the trunk and hood areas as well. My 2004 civic is starting to look like an 80's model!!
My car looks like crap and I've kept it up so well but there was nothing I could do to stop the spread of this cancer on the hood, roof and trunk. And now it's spreading to the side panels. My last 4 cars were brand new Hondas and they are all still in the family, and none of them have the problems this car...MY CAR...has. This was supposed to be a no brainer, buy a Honda and be set for 20 years. But no, now I either have to repaint it ($$) or trade it in on something NOT HONDA.
I wanted to add this to the existing complaints I saw under Honda: Paint. I see there are a lot of us and Honda is saying it's just from weather. Really? My 1995 Dodge Dakota's paint job is not peeling and it's 9 years older. We need a class action law suit.
First brought the paint/clear coat peeling problem to the local Honda dealership in August 2008. The paint peeling now affects about 75% of roof of my Civic and some of the front bumper. The problem continues to get worse with each passing day. The Honda dealership service manager told me that it was caused by either a car wash or an electronic buffer (used only once). I have seen many other Civics on the road with the same problem. Clearly there is an underlying manufacturer's quality issue that's not being acknowledged or addressed.
About 4 months ago my car starting looking like it had a skin disease. I asked a couple people and they said it was peeling clear coat and I needed to get the whole car painted to get rid of it. It's all over the car now. Ugh. I just read online other car owners are having this problem too but no solution except to paint it yourself..Good if you have the money....
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The roof & trunk look so tacky... I tried using a buffer with rubbing compound with only minor improvement...
- KenRobin E., Escondido, CA, US