As a sister model of the Honda Civic, the GAC Honda model has received extremely high attention before it is listed, and has also achieved good sales after the listing. Of course, there is no way to compare with the Civic in terms of sales. According to the ranking of car sales in January 2022. The Honda Civic sold 16,019 units, compared to 9,215 models. Sales were 6,804 fewer than the Civic. Of course, on the one hand, the price is the reason for the price, and the price of the type is higher than the price of the Civic. On the other hand, it has to be mentioned that the quality control of the type is the problem.
Now, among the first batch of owners, many owners have found that their vehicles will pop up fault codes for no reason. There are already many similar examples among the first car owners.
What happened to these owners has two main characteristics.
The first is that the types of fault codes that pop up among the first car owners are very rich and diverse.
Some owners of the car show that the collision mitigation brake system is faulty. Some cars show an Active Cruise Control fault. Some cars show a brake system failure, the automaticity may be reduced. Some cars show a lane departure suppression system failure.
Whether it's the braking system, the active cruise control system, the lane departure suppression system, it all looks quite scary. Because these systems are more or less directly related to the driving safety of the vehicle. Therefore, most car owners see such a situation, the first time is to go directly to the 4S store to eliminate the fault code.
The second notable feature is that these cars are owners who have just mentioned new cars not long ago. The driving range is only 1000 kilometers, 2000 kilometers or even hundreds of kilometers. Is it because the owner of the car is not familiar with the vehicle after mentioning the new car? I don't think so. It is likely that there are some bugs in the system of the vehicle itself.
Regarding the above questions, I see that the majority of netizens have also given support in the comment area. Some netizens commented that it may be that the vehicle has become dirty, covered with mud and sand, and has radar or cameras, causing the system to issue a wrong alarm. But the probability of this happening is relatively low. Most of the owners said that their cars had only driven hundreds of kilometers, and their vehicles were relatively clean. There is also nothing covered on the front camera and sensors.
Fortunately, at present, it is only a system alarm, and there are no cases of car owners suffering personal injury due to real traffic accidents caused by system alarms.
But the new car just bought has not yet arrived in a month, and it must be that the users themselves do not want to see it. At the same time, it also questioned honda's quality control and the reliability and durability of the vehicle safety system.
Therefore, in the comment area of netizens, there are more remarks that new cars should not be bought at the first time, not only the price is expensive, there is no little discount, but also very easy to appear a variety of small glitches and small problems, so that the owner is overwhelmed. It is best to wait until half a year after the new car is on the market, and it is best to wait until the production of the car is smooth and the small problems exposed in the early stage, and the manufacturer has solved it before buying.
And I think that the type itself is not much different from the Civic in terms of positioning, and there is a direct competitive relationship between the two cars. And now the sales volume of the Honda Civic is very good. If the type can not give users enough confidence in the first batch of products, then it is very unfavorable to the next sales development.