Ultimate Honda Civic FE PMS Cost & Schedule

When Honda Cars Philippines launched the 11th-generation Civic on 23 November 2021, it did something it had never done here before: it deleted the naturally-aspirated engine. Every variant — bottom to top — got the 1.5-litre VTEC Turbo. HCPI’s own launch material called it an “all-turbo variant range,” and that phrase is the single most useful thing to know about the FE if you are coming from a 10th-generation FC, where the 1.8 E and 1.8 S were the cars most people actually bought.

There is a second thing to know, and it is less comfortable. The FE is the most recalled Honda nameplate in this market. Two separate steering campaigns name it, and the larger one accounts for 2,463 units of 2022–2024 Civics on its own. Both are free to fix, and neither is a reason to avoid the car — but they are a reason to run your VIN before you do anything else.

This guide covers what the FE costs to keep, what its three variants actually differ on, and the recall picture in full — including a breakdown that resolves a question we had to leave open on two earlier posts. It is the Civic instalment of our full explainer on PMS meaning, intervals and pricing.

Key Takeaways

Every FE is turbocharged. 1.5L DOHC VTEC Turbo, 178 PS / 240 Nm, across the range — Honda’s own figure is +5 PS and +20 Nm over the FC’s turbo. No cheap NA entry variant exists on this generation.
PMS is every 10,000 km or 6 months — unchanged from the FC, and the Honda brand-wide standard we have now verified across seven models.
The V and RS Turbo have a real CVT needing Honda HCF-2. The RS e:HEV’s “E-CVT” is not a CVT — no belt, no pulleys.
Timing chain on both engines. No belt job, ever.
Two steering recalls name the Civic. March 2024: 1,025 units of the 2022 Civic. January 2025: 2,463 units of the 2022–2024 Civic 4D, within a 5,505-unit campaign. Free, but check your VIN.
The RS e:HEV recorded 30.12 km/L at a DOE fuel-economy run — on a 155 km, mostly-TPLEX route. Treat it as a ceiling, not a commute figure.
5 stars at ASEAN NCAP, 83.47 overall, tested October 2021 — but on a Thailand-market EL+, and on pillar denominators that do not match our HR-V and CR-V figures.
Honda Secure Plus does not cover the Civic. Warranty is 3 years / 100,000 km. The five-year deal is Prelude and 2026 CR-V only.
The S Turbo is gone, and so is the ₱1,290,000 entry point. The range now starts at ₱1,600,000.
Honda’s PM Cost Calculator is still offline — re-checked 7 September 2026.

Honda's least-discussed decision on this car was also its biggest: there is no naturally-aspirated Civic any more. Apex Engine

Which Model Years Does This Guide Cover?

The 11th-generation Civic, chassis code FE, sold in the Philippines from 23 November 2021 to the present. It replaced the FC, which our separate FC guide covers across its full 2016–2021 span.

At launch (November 2021) the range was three all-turbo variants:

Launch variant	Launch price
1.5 S Turbo CVT Honda SENSING	₱1,290,000
1.5 V Turbo CVT Honda SENSING	₱1,498,000
1.5 RS Turbo CVT Honda SENSING	₱1,690,000

The 2024 update changed the shape of the lineup, not just the styling. The S was dropped, the RS e:HEV hybrid was added at the 2024 Philippine International Motor Show, and the turbo cars got a restyled grille with hexagonal inserts, matte-black 18-inch alloys, and red dashboard accents with leather-and-suede seats on the top trim.

Here is where it stands now:

Variant	Powertrain	Transmission	Price
1.5 V Turbo CVT Honda SENSING	1.5L VTEC Turbo, 178 PS / 240 Nm	CVT	₱1,600,000
1.5 RS Turbo CVT Honda SENSING	1.5L VTEC Turbo, 178 PS / 240 Nm	CVT	₱1,830,000
2.0 RS e:HEV E-CVT Honda SENSING	2.0L Atkinson + two motors, 184 PS / 315 Nm system	E-CVT	₱1,990,000

Two honest notes on that table.

First, Platinum White Pearl costs ₱20,000 more on every single variant — ₱1,620,000, ₱1,850,000 and ₱2,010,000 respectively. It is a paint charge, not a trim, and it is the reason you will see the Civic’s “top price” quoted as both ₱1,990,000 and ₱2,010,000 depending on which listing you read.

Second, the sources disagree on the RS Turbo. We found it at ₱1,830,000, ₱1,790,000 and ₱1,775,000 across aggregators and dealer pages. Prices on this car have moved more than once since the 2024 update. Confirm at the dealer; treat every number here as a starting reference.

One consequence for used buyers. The S Turbo only existed from 2021 to the 2024 update, and it was the cheapest way into a turbocharged Civic at ₱1,290,000. If you are shopping second-hand and see an S, that is what you are looking at — a variant Honda no longer sells, with the same engine and gearbox as the V above it and less equipment.

Honda Civic FE Quick Specs

Spec	Detail
Engines	1.5L (1,498cc) L15CA DOHC VTEC Turbo · 2.0L (1,993cc) Atkinson-cycle e:HEV with two motors
Power	178 PS / 240 Nm (1.5 Turbo) · 184 PS / 315 Nm total system output (RS e:HEV)
Battery (e:HEV)	1.05 kWh lithium-ion — smaller than the CR-V e:HEV’s 1.4 kWh pack
Transmission	CVT (V, RS Turbo) · E-CVT hybrid transaxle (RS e:HEV). No manual in PH
CVT fluid	Honda HCF-2 — genuine only, on the turbo variants
Timing	Chain on both engines — no scheduled belt change
PMS interval	Every 10,000 km or 6 months
Dimensions	4,678 × 1,802 × 1,415 mm · ground clearance 134 mm
Boot	452 L, expanding to 1,210 L with the rear seat folded
Drive modes	Econ, Normal, and Sport (RS only)
Oil grade & capacity	Not published per-model by Honda PH — confirm in your owner’s manual

On outputs and units, one clarification worth carrying: HCPI’s launch release quotes the turbo at 178 PS, framed as a gain of 5 PS and 20 Nm over the tenth-generation turbo. Aggregators sometimes print the hybrid’s 184 figure as “hp” rather than “PS” — Honda’s own framing is PS, and 184 PS is roughly 182 hp. It is a labelling inconsistency across sources, not two different cars.

On ground clearance: 134 mm puts the Civic among the lowest cars on sale here — the identical figure we flagged on the City Hatchback RS. Plan your humps, ramps and village entrances accordingly, because the car will not.

The Service Schedule: Every 10,000 km or 6 Months

Unchanged from the FC, and unchanged by the turbo. Honda Cars Philippines runs a 10,000 km / 6-month PMS cadence across its range, and we have now verified it independently on the City, Brio, Jazz, BR-V, HR-V and CR-V.

This is worth stating plainly because it is the most common worry about buying a turbocharged daily: there is no shortened service interval for the turbo. The FC’s 1.5 RS Turbo ran the same 10,000 km cycle as its 1.8 NA sibling, and the FE runs it on every variant.

Against the compact-sedan competition, most of which sits on a 5,000 km light-PMS cycle:

Annual distance	Civic FE visits/yr	A 5,000 km rival’s visits/yr
10,000 km	1	2
20,000 km	2	4
To 100,000 km	10 oil changes	20 oil changes

A turbocharged engine on a 10,000 km interval is a genuinely unusual combination in this market. It is also the FE’s strongest ownership argument.

The light service is oil and filter with an inspection round. The heavier work — air cleaner element, cabin filter, brake fluid, spark plugs, and the CVT fluid on the turbo variants — clusters at 40,000 km and 80,000 km.

What we will not print: oil grade and capacity. Honda PH publishes no per-model figure for the FE, and the L15CA is a different engine code from the FC’s L15B7 — so carrying the FC guide’s numbers across would be a guess dressed up as continuity. This is the seventh guide on this site where we have had to leave this row blank rather than repeat a generic database figure. Your owner’s manual is the authority, and on a direct-injected turbo it matters more than on an NA engine, not less.

What It Actually Costs

Honda Cars Philippines built a PM Cost Calculator — the closest any manufacturer here has come to publishing real per-model service pricing. We re-checked it at hondaphil.com/pm-cost-calculator on 7 September 2026 and it still returns:

“The PM Cost Calculator is temporarily unavailable due to maintenance. For your PM Cost inquiries, please contact your nearest Honda Cars dealership.”

Past two months of downtime now. So Honda joins every other brand here in publishing nothing you can read before you sign.

PMS stage	Interval	Estimated casa cost
Light / standard PMS	Every 10,000 km / 6 months	₱5,500–7,500
Heavy / major PMS	40,000 km and 80,000 km	₱11,000–18,000

Estimates, not quotes. They sit close to our FC figures because the servicing content is broadly the same, and below the CR-V’s because there is less oil, no AWD differential and smaller brakes. Ask for a written breakdown per variant and per mileage stop.

There is one real historical data point worth repeating from the FC guide, because it is the only genuine published Civic figure anyone has: a 2017 RS Turbo quote of ₱3,810.55 at 10,000 km and ₱15,849.20 at 40,000 km. That is nine years old now. Use it to understand the shape of the cost curve — the 40,000 km stop is roughly four times a light service — not the level.

The RS e:HEV: What You’re Actually Buying

The hybrid arrived at PIMS 2024 and is the most powerful Civic variant sold here outside the Type R: 184 PS and 315 Nm of total system output, from a 2.0-litre Atkinson-cycle engine and two motors. The powertrain is derived from the larger CR-V e:HEV’s, with a smaller 1.05 kWh lithium-ion pack against the CR-V’s 1.4 kWh.

The “E-CVT” is not a CVT, and this is the third post on this site where we have had to say so. Honda’s e:HEV is an i-MMD-type system: a traction motor, a generator motor, and an engine that spends most of its life generating rather than driving, through a fixed-gear transaxle with a lock-up clutch for high-speed cruising. No belt. No pulleys. What that means for you:

No CVT fluid to worry about, and no CVT belt to wear. The single most common long-term anxiety about the turbo variants simply does not exist here.
Brakes last much longer, because regenerative braking does most of the slowing.
New inspection items instead: the hybrid battery, its cooling, and the high-voltage system. Casa work, not talyer work.
The oil still ages on the calendar. The engine runs less of the time; the six-month leg of the interval still applies.

About that 30 km/L

The number is real and it is worth understanding precisely. At a Department of Energy fuel-economy run in September 2025, the Civic RS e:HEV recorded 30.12 km/L, beating the HR-V RS e:HEV’s 28.08 km/L. The run covered 155 km, mainly along TPLEX, with around 70 vehicles participating across petrol, hybrid and electric.

A 155-kilometre expressway run is the best-case ceiling for a hybrid, not a description of your commute.

Read it for what it is: a controlled, highway-biased, economy-driven route. Earlier runs put the same car at 24.2 km/L, and independent road-test figures for the car land nearer the low-20s. All of those are excellent for a 184 PS compact sedan. None of them is what you will see in Manila traffic, where a hybrid’s advantage is real but its headline number is not.

Transmissions and the HCF-2 Rule

On the V and RS Turbo, you have a conventional belt-and-pulley CVT — the same principle as the City and Jazz — with one non-negotiable requirement: Honda HCF-2 fluid. Honda specifically excludes damage caused by non-equivalent fluid from warranty coverage. A shop that pours in generic ATF because “CVT fluid din naman” is setting up a failure that costs more than every service you have ever paid for.

The same gap we have hit on the Jazz, BR-V, HR-V and CR-V applies here: no Honda PH document we could find states a CVT-fluid replacement interval in kilometres for the Civic FE. Our convention across this site is to treat the 40,000 km heavy service as the point to do it — and to say openly that this is a convention, not a published spec. Get your dealer to write the interval into your service booklet.

On CVT durability specifically, the honest position: the reports we could find of low-speed CVT hesitation on early 2022–2023 1.5T cars come from US owner forums and US service data, and the same sources note Honda redesigned and recalibrated this generation’s CVT, with no US federal recall or investigation opened on the CVT assembly. The clearest signal in that data is unglamorous and useful: owners who actually change the fluid rarely have catastrophic failures. We found no Philippine pattern for it, and we are reporting that as “we did not find one.”

Timing Belt or Chain?

Chain, on both engines. The 1.5 L15CA turbo and the 2.0 Atkinson hybrid unit are both chain-driven, as was every engine in the FC. There is no scheduled timing-belt replacement on this car and no ₱15,000–30,000 job waiting around 100,000 km.

What a chain asks for is clean oil on schedule. On a direct-injected turbo, that is not a slogan — it is the maintenance plan.

Recalls: The FE’s Real Story

This is the section that matters most on this car, and it is also where we can now close a gap two of our own earlier posts had to leave open.

Recall one — March 2024, 1,025 units

HCPI announced a voluntary safety recall of 1,025 units of the 2022 Honda Civic to replace the Electric Power Steering gearbox. In HCPI’s own words, the worm gear “was improperly installed or manufactured. The grease applied on the worm gear was depleted, causing a stick slip leading to an unusual sound when turning the steering wheel.”

The replacement takes 3.5 to 4 hours and is free of charge. HCPI stated that no related accidents had been reported in the Philippines.

HCPI notified the Department of Trade and Industry in letters dated 9 January 2025 of two campaigns. The steering one covers 5,505 units for the same underlying mechanism — grease in the worm gear meshing area decreases with use, sliding resistance and torque fluctuation rise, and the result is unusual noise and “sticky steering” while turning.

HCPI’s own recall pages do not publish a model breakdown for it. But the DTI filing did, and it was reported consistently:

Model	Model years	Units
Civic 4D	2022–2024	2,463
CR-V	2024	2,762
Civic Type R	2023–2025	280
	Total	5,505

Those three figures sum to exactly 5,505, and two independent outlets report the identical split — which is why we are treating this as the campaign’s real composition rather than as speculation.

What that means in practice. Between the two campaigns, the Civic is the model with the largest recall exposure of any Honda in this market, and the 2022 model year appears in both. We are not going to guess at how the two overlap — HCPI published them as separate announcements, and the March 2024 one names only “select 2022 Year Model” cars while the January 2025 one spans 2022–2024. If you own a 2022 Civic, do not try to reason out which campaign applies to you. Put your 17-digit chassis number or VIN into the search tool at hondaphil.com/recall. It is free, it takes a minute, and it is definitive for your specific car.

The correction this creates

Our HR-V guide and CR-V guide both said that HCPI published no model list for the 5,505-unit steering recall — which was accurate about HCPI’s own pages, and is why both posts told readers to check their VIN rather than speculate. The DTI-sourced breakdown above answers it: the campaign is Civic, CR-V and Civic Type R only. The HR-V is not in it. We would rather say that plainly here than leave the better information buried.

And on the fuel pump: the Civic is not in the current high-pressure fuel pump recall — that one covers 1,351 units of the 2023–2024 CR-V RS e:HEV. The Civic was named in the older 10,136-unit fuel pump campaign of 2018–2019 model years, which is FC-era territory and is covered in the FC and Jazz guides.

Known Issues, Honestly

Oil dilution — and the engine code matters. The FE’s turbo is the L15CA, an evolution of the FC’s L15B7. The L15B7’s oil-dilution issue is thoroughly documented: fuel passes the piston rings during cold running, dilutes the oil, and produces a fuel smell at the dipstick with a rising oil level. Overseas owner reports indicate the behaviour did not vanish with the L15CA.

Two caveats decide how much this should weigh on you, and they are the same ones we set out on the FC:

It is a cold-climate mechanism. It depends on the engine taking a long time to reach operating temperature so unburnt fuel does not evaporate off and get routed back through the crankcase ventilation. Philippine ambient temperatures work against it, and PH sources report it as rare here.
There is no HCPI recall or technical bulletin for it, and the material we could find on the L15CA specifically is overseas owner-forum reporting, not manufacturer documentation or a local defect pattern.

That is not a reason to be anxious. It is a reason to do the boring thing: check your oil level periodically, especially if your driving is mostly short city hops, and do not stretch the interval.

Low ground clearance. 134 mm is a design decision, not a fault, but it is the FE’s most reliable source of ownership cost — undercarriage scrapes on humps, ramps and flooded roads. If your daily route has a steep village entrance, drive one over it before you buy.

And what we did not find. We found no documented widespread mechanical failure pattern for the Philippine FE, and no PH recall beyond the two steering campaigns. We are reporting that as “we did not find one,” not as “there is none.” The car has been here since late 2021, which is enough time for a pattern to surface but not enough to be confident about long-term wear.

Safety: Read the Denominators

5 stars at ASEAN NCAP, with an overall score of 83.47 out of 100, tested in October 2021 under the 2021–2025 assessment protocol. The published pillar scores:

Pillar	Score
Adult Occupant Protection	29.28 / 32
Child Occupant Protection	46.72 / 51
Safety Assist	19.07 / 21
Motorcyclist Safety	8.32 / 16

Within AOP, the car took full marks (8.00/8.00) for side impact, 14.54/16 for frontal impact, and 6.74/8 for head-protection technology.

Two things to be careful about here, because comparing safety scores is where car research goes wrong most often.

First, the denominators do not match our other Honda posts. We published the HR-V at 35.00/40 for AOP and the CR-V at 39.31/40. The Civic’s AOP is published as 29.28/32, with COP out of 51 and Safety Assist out of 21. Those are different reporting bases from the same programme. Only the star rating and the /100 overall score are comparable — the raw pillar numbers are not, and anyone putting them in one table is misleading you.

Second, the tested car was a Thailand-market EL+, and the rating was issued for units sold in Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia, equipped with six airbags and Honda SENSING as standard. Honda SENSING is standard across the PH range too, which is the meaningful part — but the crash-tested unit was not a Philippine-spec car.

The Type R (FL5): Out of Scope, and On Its Way Out

The Civic Type R FL5 is an 11th-generation Civic, so it belongs in this guide’s family tree — but not in its cost tables. K20C, 325 hp, 420 Nm, six-speed manual, front-wheel drive, and a maintenance, tyre and parts profile that has nothing to do with a CVT commuter sedan. It is a JDM-vertical subject, exactly as we said when we drew the same line around the FK8 on the FC guide.

Three facts about it that do belong here:

It launched on 19 January 2023 at ₱3.88 million, with a first batch of just 40 units — 39 sold to customers and one kept as a demonstrator — against more than 100 orders placed before launch. Further batches followed.
HCPI has announced the current Type R’s PH run is concluding, with only the last remaining 2025 Year Model units available. The announcement frames it as the end of an era rather than a permanent farewell to the nameplate.
It is in the steering recall: 280 units, 2023–2025 model years. If you own one, run the VIN like everyone else.

If you want the enthusiast Civic story properly — the SiR lineage, the B-series, what these cars become — that is our Civic SiR EK4 guide, and the FL5 is the obvious next chapter.

Casa vs. Talyer

Under warranty — 3 years or 100,000 km — keep it at the casa and keep the receipts. Two FE-specific points sharpen the usual advice.

The five-year warranty is not yours. Honda Secure Plus (5 years / 150,000 km) covers the Prelude and the 2026 CR-V only. Not the Civic. This is the third time we have had to flag this exact misreading, after the BR-V and HR-V. Yours is three years.

On the hybrid battery, we have no Civic-specific figure. HCPI publishes 8 years / 160,000 km for the 2026 CR-V’s pack, and an 8 years / 200,000 km figure circulates for earlier e:HEV cars. We found nothing published specifically for the Civic RS e:HEV. Do not assume either number applies — get the exact terms written into your paperwork, and understand that a battery warranty is worthless without a documented service history.

Out of warranty, the split is the usual one with two exceptions:

The CVT on the turbo variants is where casa work pays for itself, entirely on the HCF-2 question.
The hybrid system on the RS e:HEV is casa work, full stop — high-voltage components, Honda-specific diagnostics, and a battery warranty that depends on documented history.

Oil, brakes, filters, tyres and suspension a competent independent handles fine. Our look at when the casa premium is worth paying works through the trade-off in general.

Network context: Honda runs roughly 38 dealerships plus three service centres nationwide — thinner than Toyota’s or Mitsubishi’s. Check what is near you, and weight it heavily if you are buying the hybrid.

How the FE Compares

Versus the FC it replaced: the FE is better equipped, has Honda SENSING standard across the range, a stronger turbo, and a hybrid option. What it lost is the cheap entry point — the FC’s 1.8 S and the FE’s own discontinued S Turbo were both considerably less money than today’s ₱1,600,000 floor. If budget is the binding constraint, a late FC is the value play.
Versus the Honda City: the same brand advantages — 10,000 km interval, timing chain, HCF-2 discipline — for dramatically less money. The Civic’s case is size, refinement, the turbo and the hybrid. The City’s case is that it does the same job for most people.
Versus the Toyota Corolla Altis Hybrid: the direct fight, and Toyota’s hybrid has far more years on Philippine roads plus a much denser dealer network. The Civic answers with more power (184 PS against the Altis hybrid’s output) and the better-resolved chassis. If you want a Toyota hybrid crossover instead, the Corolla Cross is the cross-shop.
Versus its own CR-V and HR-V siblings: same interval, same fluid rules, same e:HEV logic. The Civic is the one you buy if you actually want a low, quick sedan rather than a crossover — and at 134 mm of clearance, that preference has to be genuine.

Who This Car Is Actually For

Buy the V Turbo if you want the FE’s engine and Honda SENSING at the lowest entry point and can live without the RS’s cosmetic and equipment upgrades. It is the same 178 PS drivetrain as the RS.

Buy the RS Turbo if the styling, Sport mode and interior matter to you — it is the enthusiast-adjacent choice among the CVT cars, and the one most likely to hold attention on resale.

Buy the RS e:HEV if you do a lot of city driving and want the most powerful non-Type-R Civic that also happens to be the most efficient. The absence of a CVT belt is a real long-term ownership argument that no salesperson will make for you. Price the premium over the RS Turbo against your actual annual fuel spend first.

Think harder if your route punishes a 134 mm car, if you need a cheap entry into a Civic (look at a late FC), or if you live far from a Honda dealer and are considering the hybrid.

The Bottom Line

The Civic FE is an unusually low-maintenance turbocharged car: 10,000 km or six months, timing chain, no belt job, and no shortened interval for the boost. It carries 5 stars and 83.47 points at ASEAN NCAP, Honda SENSING is standard on every variant, and the RS e:HEV is both the most powerful and the most efficient Civic you can buy here short of a Type R.

The things worth knowing before you sign are these. Every FE is turbo — the cheap NA Civic no longer exists, and the S Turbo that partly filled that gap has been discontinued. The turbo variants need Honda HCF-2 and nothing else, and no published kilometre interval exists for changing it, so get one written down. The “E-CVT” is not a CVT. The warranty is three years, not five — Secure Plus is not for this car. That 30 km/L figure came off a 155-kilometre expressway run, so treat it as a ceiling. And two steering recalls name this car, one of them accounting for 2,463 units of 2022–2024 Civics.

None of that makes the FE a bad buy. Recalls are free work, and a manufacturer that files a breakdown with the DTI is behaving correctly. What it makes the FE is a car you should run the VIN on first — before the test drive, before the trade-in valuation, before anything. Then get the fluid interval in the booklet and pick the variant on how you actually drive.

For how the Civic’s running costs sit against everything else we have measured, our service-schedule and pricing comparison across the market puts them side by side.

Frequently Asked Questions

Gaano kadalas ang PMS ng Honda Civic FE?

**Every 10,000 km or 6 months, whichever comes first** — brand-wide standard ito ng Honda Cars Philippines, at kumpirmado na namin ito sa City, Brio, Jazz, BR-V, HR-V at CR-V. Pareho rin ito sa [10th-gen FC](/blog/honda-civic-fc-pms-guide), kaya walang nagbago sa cadence kahit turbo na lahat ng variant. Kumpara sa 5,000 km na cycle ng Toyota at Mitsubishi, **dalawang casa visit lang kada taon.**

Magkano ang PMS ng Honda Civic FE?

Tantiya: **₱5,500–7,500** sa casa para sa light PMS, at **₱11,000–18,000** sa 40,000 km at 80,000 km na stop. **Estimates ito, hindi price list.** Ang PM Cost Calculator ng Honda Cars Philippines ay **down pa rin noong Setyembre 7, 2026** — mahigit dalawang buwan na. Ang tanging totoong numero ay ang written quote ng dealer mo. Isang paalala: dahil **turbo lahat ng FE**, walang 'mas murang NA variant' na option dito na dating meron sa FC (ang 1.8 E/S).

Turbo ba lahat ng Honda Civic FE?

**Oo — at ito ang pinakamalaking pagbabago mula sa FC.** Nang i-launch ng HCPI ang 11th-gen noong **November 23, 2021**, tinawag nila itong 'all-turbo variant range': **1.5L DOHC VTEC Turbo, 178 PS at 240 Nm, sa lahat ng tatlong variant** (S, V, RS). Wala nang 1.8L naturally-aspirated na entry engine na gaya ng FC. Kaya kung galing ka sa 1.8 E o 1.8 S na FC at akala mo may mumurahing NA variant pa rin, **wala na** — ang pinakamurang FE ay turbo na rin.

CVT ba ang Honda Civic RS e:HEV?

**Hindi.** Ang V Turbo at RS Turbo ay may **totoong CVT** — belt-and-pulley — na nangangailangan ng **Honda HCF-2** fluid, bawal ang generic ATF. Ang RS e:HEV ay may **E-CVT**, at hindi ito CVT: hybrid transaxle ito na walang belt at walang pulley, kaya **walang CVT fluid worry** doon. Pareho ang framing na ito sa [HR-V](/blog/honda-hr-v-pms-guide) at [CR-V](/blog/honda-cr-v-pms-guide) — tatlong sasakyan, isang paliwanag na hindi sinasabi sa showroom.

May recall ba ang Honda Civic FE sa Pilipinas?

**Oo — dalawa, at pareho itong steering.** (1) **March 2024: 1,025 units ng 2022 Civic** para palitan ang **Electric Power Steering gearbox** — 'improperly installed or manufactured' ang worm gear, naubos ang grease, at nagdudulot ng 'stick slip' at kakaibang tunog kapag umiikot ang manibela. **3.5 hanggang 4 oras** ang trabaho, libre. (2) **January 2025: 5,505 units** sa buong lineup — at **2,463 units doon ay 2022–2024 Civic 4D**, kasama rin ang **280 units ng 2023–2025 Civic Type R** at 2,762 units ng 2024 CR-V. Ito ang **pinakamalaking recall exposure ng kahit anong Honda model dito.** I-check ang 17-digit chassis/VIN mo sa hondaphil.com/recall — libre, at hindi mo dapat hulaan kung alin sa dalawa ang tumatama sa unit mo.

Timing belt ba o chain ang Honda Civic FE?

**Chain — pareho sa 1.5 turbo at sa 2.0 e:HEV.** Walang scheduled na mahal na timing belt replacement sa 100,000 km. Ganito rin sa FC at sa buong Honda L-series na gamit dito. Ang tanging hinihingi ng chain ay **malinis na langis, on time** — 'yun na ang buong maintenance plan para dito.

Totoo bang 30 km/L ang Honda Civic RS e:HEV?

**Totoo ang numero, pero alamin mo kung saan galing.** **30.12 km/L** ang naitala ng Civic RS e:HEV sa **DOE fuel-economy run noong Setyembre 2025** — **155 km na ruta, halos puro TPLEX**, kasama ang mga 70 sasakyan. Nilampasan nito ang HR-V RS e:HEV na **28.08 km/L**. Pero **expressway run 'yun na may controlled na kondisyon at hypermiling technique** — **hindi ito ang makukuha mo sa EDSA.** Sa mga naunang run, **24.2 km/L** ang Civic. Gamitin mo ang numerong ito bilang best-case ceiling, hindi bilang daily average.

Ligtas ba ang Honda Civic FE?

**5 stars sa ASEAN NCAP, 83.47 overall out of 100**, nasubok noong **Oktubre 2021** sa ilalim ng 2021–2025 protocol. Pillar scores as published: **29.28/32** Adult Occupant Protection, **46.72/51** Child Occupant Protection, **19.07/21** Safety Assist, at **8.32/16** Motorcyclist Safety. **Mahalagang paalala:** iba ang denominators na ito sa /40 at /20 na nakita mo sa [HR-V](/blog/honda-hr-v-pms-guide) at [CR-V](/blog/honda-cr-v-pms-guide) namin, kaya **hindi mo puwedeng ihambing ang raw numbers** — ang stars at ang /100 overall lang ang comparable. At **Thailand-market EL+** ang aktuwal na nasubok, hindi PH-spec unit.

Ilang taon ang warranty ng Honda Civic FE?

**3 years or 100,000 km**, whichever comes first — standard HCPI warranty. **Hindi kasama ang Civic sa Honda Secure Plus.** Ang 5 years/150,000 km na iyon ay para lang sa **Prelude at sa 2026 CR-V** — pareho ang trap na na-flag namin sa BR-V at HR-V. Para sa hybrid battery ng RS e:HEV, **wala kaming nakitang Civic-specific na published figure** (8 years/160,000 km ang nakalathala para sa 2026 CR-V) — kaya **ipasulat mo sa dealer** ang eksaktong terms bago ka pumirma.

May Honda Civic Type R pa ba sa Pilipinas?

**Paalis na.** Inanunsyo ng HCPI na **magtatapos na ang official run ng kasalukuyang Civic Type R (FL5) sa Pilipinas**, at 'last few remaining units' na lang ng **2025 Year Model** ang available. Nag-launch ito noong **January 19, 2023 sa ₱3.88 million**, **40 units lang ang unang batch** (39 nabili, 1 demo) kahit **mahigit 100 orders** na ang nakaabang — kaya sunod-sunod ang batches. Tandaan: **hindi kasama ang Type R sa PMS guide na ito** — K20C, 325 hp, 6-speed manual, at ganap na ibang maintenance at parts profile. Pero **kasama ito sa steering recall: 280 units, 2023–2025.**

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