10.0

really awful
Crashes / Fires:
1 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
22,500 miles

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problem #1

Sep 012004

Accord 4-cyl

  • Automatic transmission
  • 22,500 miles
6-18-04 told Honda dealer that our 2003 Accord LX was idling too fast on cold startups - dealer told wife this was normal and marked bill "ok" re this item. Fast idling continued thereafter. On 9-01-04 11:30 pm car parked in driveway was started, put in reverse, and car sped so rapidly that it jumped driveway curb and was stopped by braking and hitting a tree. To be correctly parked I put the car in drive and the car shot ahead rapidly, stopped only by braking and swerving into other curbing and jumping it. I

- Cos Cob, CT, USA

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