I bought the car new in 2006, and have had all mx done at the same employee owned dealership since. I use the "maintenance minder" as my guide and have followed it without exception( I was also one of the owners whose Civic experienced a cracked engine block at about 50,000 miles. That was not a positive event for a "new" Honda owner). Today I had the Civic in for its annual safety inspection and was told that it almost didn't pass because of irregular rear tire wear from an outdated version of these rear upper control arms, that the arms should be replaced (along with the tires which only have one-half of their claimed 65,000 mile life expectance). My service manager suggested that I contact the national Honda Customer Service offices and see if Honda would be willing to "assist" in the repair costs. I called the Customer Service office, spoke with a woman, who then checked with a "decision maker" who only passed back to me that Honda would not accept my claim because of the mileage of the car. Seems I got the Imperial Shufflle for having dared to mention a fault of the company in being unwilling to stand behind a poor design of these arms. The arms have indeed been redesigned and improved upon since 2006. It sounded like trying to sue the US government over a matter that is entirely its fault. It can simply not allow itself to be sued or otherwise bothered with such a matter, so stop your complaining. This is the first Honda I've owned since about 1982, and with this experience of the corporate attitude toward its customers, my 2006 model may well be my last. If anyone has had this type of problem and been fortunate enough to succesfully get the company to take on some of the responsibility for their fault in a bad design, please speak up, I'm all ears. Thanks.