Warranty Claim: Strut failure at 5k miles

[BrandonSmith]

I started having light knocking noise in the front right suspension about 1k miles ago, any time I would hit a bump. Over the past 1k miles, that progressed into having a rattle pretty much anytime the wheel would move vertically. The front end became bouncy too.

Finally, I took the Civic in and they found the right front strut and strut bearing failed. The seal on the plunger inside the strut failed, so there was no more damping.

All covered under warranty, but sad to see something like this happen in only 4k miles. I’m sure it’s an outlier issue though. My 2016 with 215,000 miles never had a suspension issue.

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[MvV]

I started having light knocking noise in the front right suspension about 1k miles ago, any time I would hit a bump. Over the past 1k miles, that progressed into having a rattle pretty much anytime the wheel would move vertically. The front end became bouncy too.

ohh... I have to keep an eye/ear on that, I'm hearing a rough "bumpy" sound on my front as well, I have little over 3000 miles on my 2025 CTR, is there a good way to test whether something is going bad other then listening for signs ? the car is already quite loud so not sure if I'm hearing the same thing you described and experienced ...

 

[AZCWTypeR]

Sorry to hear this. Fortunately strut/shock failures are very uncommon on Honda's. Most Honda drivers run the originals until the car dies. My son has over 70k agressive miles on both an Si and an FK8 without damper issues.

I've had knocking struts/shocks on an older VW and a 2014 FR-S. The problems occurred well beyond the warranty period and those cars lived in freezing, damp climates, where compromised seals expose guts to salt and sand.

 

[Zone47]

Weird! this is going back a bunch of years but I put 216K on the suspension of a RSX type S and it still was working fairly well. In fact, nothing broke on that car, even the original clutch was good... but it was a DD and didn't flog it too hard. Sad that there is a failure at less than 5K miles. At least it's under warranty.

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