Went to Honda dealer to have other work done and the one service manager comes to me and says I need to replace rear brakes as they are paper thin. I ask how much and he told me $160.00. I told him I would have to think about it as the brakes should have lasted a lot longer. A few mins later the second service manager comes to me and said they would put rear brakes on for $60 since Honda was having a problem with the rear brakes on the 08 Accord they would pay half the cost.

I filed a complaint with Honda and 4 days later rec'd a call from a rep. He said this wear on rear brakes was normal since Honda had put in a new brake system, it took him a couple of mins to explain this new brake system to me and ask if I understood. I told him if the brake wear out this fast then their new system don't work and should be fixed. He said this was all normal wear on car and Honda will not do anything about it

I told him what he could do with his Honda??????????

I think people should tell everyone they see about Honda and if some could get together and contact the news media and get this on national tv and put Honda in the same place that Toyota is now. What will Honda do when someones brakes fail and they get killed in a accident due to bad brakes??????????

Premature wearout of rear brakes at 25,462 miles. I have noticed a burning order when exiting the car on occasion. Wasn't sure what it was but knew it wasn't from under the hood. Then I started to hear a high pitched whine from under the car when traveling on the highway, it actually sounded like a bearing going out to me. Honda dealer found my front brakes good with 6 mm of pad, the rear pads were at 0 mm.

From my research this is a known issue and Honda has changed the brake pad kit to use two times. Original brake kit part number 43022-TA0-A00 -> 2nd kit 43022-TA0-A51 -> 3rd kit 43022-TA0-A70. So to me it is obvious that Honda knows something is wrong and is trying to address it. Information I have read on the web indicates they are trying to address a harder brake material and the addition of a spring to keep pads away from rotor when not braking. Talking to the mechanic at dealership he mentioned that due to the EPA they were originally trying to use different material for braking. The verdict of their changes is still out.

Guess what? I just replaced my rear brakes on my 2008 Honda accord coupe at 20,000miles and now they are squealing again at 34,000 miles and need to be replaced along with the rotors because they are warped and the whole car still shakes violently since the last brake job. Filed with the BBB, American Honda says they will not refund my money for the first brake job, nor will they buy back this piece of sh*t, or fund any future brake jobs. Basically they are telling me to go pound sand, well I say we all BOYCOTT Honda, tell all your friends, relatives, neighbors, co workers, even strangers about your horror stories with these death traps.Take a ride past your local Honda Dealer and see how many used 2008 Accords are sitting on the lot because people got tired of this stupid sh*t and traded it in, pretty soon they will stop taking them on trade and we will all be screwed, Trade them in now before its too late, believe me it happened with Maserati in the 80s and it will happen again with Honda.

I currently work in the industry, and purchased a new 2008 Honda Accord EXL V-6 due to Honda vehicles being one of the best vehicles in reliability, and ease of maintenance. I told my wife that this car would be the BEST to buy and easiest to maintain due to my years of experience one of the highest volume vehicle service locations in the Company across over 500 locations. Our vehicle now has 25,000 miles on it, and on the last oil change was informed by my shop mechanic that I already needed rear brakes. I inspected myself and found inner pads 90% worn. This is now the 4th newer Honda in the past 3 months that I have found to have Caliper issues with the inner pads. I have an appointment with Honda in the morning, and will be looking for them to replace not only the pads, but also the CALIPERS.... this is NOT a brake pad quality issue.... this is a brake CALIPER issue. Inner pads worn 100% when outer pad is only 50% worn is a CALIPER sticking and should be replaced under a normal 3 year, 36,000 mile warranty for a major part defect. Don't allow any service associate to tell you that your driving habits or braking habits have anything to do with this issue. I will follow up after the appointment to let everyone know what was resolved with the dealer. I will not allow Honda to get out of taking responsibility for the defect of their brake components. This is also an issue on the Honda Civic's starting in 2006. I have already replaced multiple calipers on these vehicles outside of the 36,000 mile warranty ..... but well under what a caliper should last.

Update from Apr 27, 2010: As follow up to my visit with the Honda dealer on 3-24-10, here is what came out of it. first the dealer claimed that I did NOT have a caliper problem on my 2008 Honda. They admitted that the issue is related to 2 problems on the car. #1 the pads have been upgraded to a newer material that they say has been corrected. #2 Honda claims that the real issue is the original brake hardware kit on the pads catches on the rotors when the caliper opens and closes. They claimed that this causes the pads to stay engaged longer and wears them pre-maturely.

The dealer tried to say that I had ENJOYED 27,000 miles on the orginal pads, so according to Honda procedures in handling this issue....all they would do is cover 50% of the pad replacement. I told them that I had not ENJOYED my 2 visits for warranty and defective parts that I have had to deal with alreay in 27,000 miles and that I expected the entire visit to be covered 100%. After meeting with the Service Manager, then the head of the Service Department, and then getting his boss called, they reluctantly covered 75% of the repair. I then met with the General Manager of the dealership who STILL would not do more than the 75%. .....

I JUST HAVE TO SAY .... WOW...where has customer service gone???? I asked all 3 of them the same question. ..... WHEN in your lifetime have you owned a car, or in your 20-30 years of experience on cars, seen YOUR CAR OR ANY CAR ANYWHERE EVER EVER wear out the brakes in 15,000 to 20,000 miles????? The funny thing is that ALL 3 of them had NOTHING TO SAY except NEVER !!!!! So now I have registered a complaint with Honda.......I will get this covered 100% It is the PRINCIPAL of it now.

Oh....an while I was at the dealer, I also had to have a rattle noise from the speakers (a Honda recall item) fixed, a hood latch inspected (another Honda recall item), and last the carpet that has been coming detached along the doors ever since I got the car fixed. Can you believe that the took a staple gun and STAPLED the carpet down OUT IN THE OPEN WHERE I CAN SEE THE STAPLES........while still leaving the carpet going to the back seat hanging out !!!

MORE TO COME ........!!!

I'm a girl. Everything about me yells that I'm a girl: my hair is always done, my nails are always painted, and I rarely ever leave the house looking anything less than the best that I can. The only reason that I bought the 2008 Honda Accord Coupe was because it was a Honda, an obviously reliable car, and because it was the hottest little thing I could find. Little did I realize, its not a reliable car and little did Honda City realize, my father's a diesel mechanic and I probably know more about the inside of a machine than they do.

Today is the second time that these people have tried to fool me about my rear brakes being destroyed. The first time, I gave them the benefit of the doubt. I only had about 15k on my car and I brought it in for an oil change (they owed me a year of free services for trying to screw me over during negotiations to buy the car and I caught them red handed) and the service manager called me to tell me that in addition to my oil change and tire rotation that they were going to replace my brake pads because they were unusually worn out. The manager obviously knew me because he automatically offered to comp the cost because my brakes were "still under warranty". I thought that it was strange but I know how most cars come from the factory with garbage replaceable parts so I just figured the same went for my break pads. Free = who gives a sh*t?

This time, however, at 34k I brought it in for the same oil change and tire rotation and the regular floor mechanic called me to tell me that my break pads and roters needed to be replaced. Excuse me?!? I haven't even owed this vehicle for a total of two years yet and I'm on the third set of brake pads already?!? And he told me that the quote to fix them would be $299! I told him no thank you to the charge and that I expected him to fix and replace them for free. Obviously, there is a mechanical problem with the parts or an operating error with the mechanic that did the work, if I wore through a decent set of brake pads in less than a year. So then, this idiot begins to explain to me in the most confusing mechanical terminology that he can come up with, for a pretty little girl like me who probably doesn't even pump her own gas, let alone know anything about the mechanics of a break to try to convince me that this is somehow not Honda's fault. First his excuse is, and I quote, "there's a part in the break system called a caliper and salt from the road in the winter gets in there and corrodes the pads and the roters, so this is just a matter of you living in NY state. This has nothing to do with the parts." Are you effin kidding me?!? I laughed at him and to humor myself played stupid and told him that even if this was the case that I know that it would take way longer for road salt to corrode my brakes than just 9 months. I told him that I still expected him to fix them for free because if they used quality parts while my brakes were still under warranty when they fixed them that this would never have happened. He told me that he would have to have his manager call me back. Fantastic. I was about to ask for him anyway.

So, then about ten minutes later, this idiot calls me, trying to explain the mechanics of a brake system to me.... Meantime, the thousands of times that my father made me help him pull apart calipers and roters and replace brake pads and drums and all such things just because "its good for you" are running through my head. Please don't tell me that this jerk is going to talk down to me too. Now, this guy's excuse is that I'm engaging my brakes so hard that my caliper isn't backing off of my roters. "Do you use your emergency brake a lot?" No. "Well, that's why then. Your rear brakes are absorbing all of the pressure and its ruining them." I thought that it was the salt. "Yeah, well that too. And with the way that you're treating them, you should get them checked out every ten thousand miles." .........................................

As this was going on, I searched google for "2008 Honda Accord brake issues" and to my surprise, 865 websites glittered before me that matched the description of the problem that I was now having. This being the first, I pulled it up and immediately sited one blog after the next about this issue to him. "Sir, do you still mean to tell me that this is my fault for not parking with my emergency brake and for owning this car in the state of NY or would you like to take this opportunity to change your story and offer to fix my brake pads and roters for free?"

He told me that he would have to contact Honda to get approval to fix this free of charge for me. Moments after we disconnected he called me back to tell me that they approved the "One time customer accomodation" of fixing this problem free of cost but that he had to warn me that in the future, this would be my responsibility to fix and pay for. I warned him that this was his "One time maintanence service accomodation to make things right with me before I started changing my oil, rotating my tires and replacing my brakes on my own. There's lots more nail polish where this came from. And next time, before you try to make an idiot out of me, realize who I am before I make an idiot out of you."

THIS CAR IS A PIECE OF CRAP I HATE IT AND I STILL HAVE 2AND A HALF YRS OF NOTES TO PAY. THE PADS WERE WORN DOWN TO THE METAL AT 32500 MILES. I THINK IT IS RIDICULOUS. HONDA SHOULD BE ASHAMED TO SELL SUCH A PIECE OF CRAP. I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER HONDA .THIS IS MY FIRST AND LAST ONE. AND TO THINK ALL MY OTHER VEHICLES WERE ....YOU GUESSED IT TOYOTA, AND I NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH ANY OF THEM. AND THIS CAR STILL SQUEALS LIKE A BUS SOMETIMES WHEN I PUT ON BRAKES AND IM ONLY AT 37000 MILES AS OF TODAY 03/17/10

Update from Apr 15, 2010: called honda and filed a complaint with them. was told that upper management is very aware of this problem but have not gotten any info or updates from honda. im going to file a complaint with the federal trade commission ,and any other govt agency that might take notice if they get enough complaints. i also just might write my congressman,and my states attorneys generals office,in light of the fact that toy. is in front of them honda might also need to do some explaining I HATE THIS CAR IT IS EMBARRASING.

Update from Apr 16, 2010: LISTEN UP ALL I JUST FILED MY COMPLAINT ONLINE AT FTC.GOV .PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO CONTACT THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION MAYBE IF THEY GET ENOUGH COMPLAINTS ABOUT THIS PROBLEM HONDAS HAND WILL BE FORCED TO RECALL THE VEHICLES INVOLVED I HATE THIS CAR IT LOOKS PRETTY BUT ITS BEEN A NIGHTMARE THAT I JUST CANT SEEM TO WAKE UP FROM. I WISH I HAD MY MATRIX BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (NO SQUEAKY AZZZZZZZ BRAKES)

Bought car new, sounds like pulling cans behind it. Diagnosed as worn rear brake pads, dealer recommends to replace. 15k miles, and they say it is 'not unusual' - guess couldn't keep a straight face to say it is 'normal'.

Other car, also Japanese (the one with sticky gas pedals...), had first break service at 60k.

Honda said 'would try to give a discount', dealer says 'since it is over 12k miles it is not covered'.

Replaced myself with after market ceramic pads. Not worth my time to haggle with those con artists. Even for free, I don't want 15k mile pads anyhow.

Another option, for those with the same birth defect, is to go to Midas, where service was quoted $189 with lifetime pads (meaning next service you pay labor only). Caveat emptor on that offer, too, as 'labor only' will not include the rotor next time, or there will be a fee to 'upgraded pads', who knows. It is a business.

So you can choose, now, between the Japanese brand that doesn't brake or the one that keeps on accelerating. Your pick... :-)

Same issue as everyone else on this site. My wife complained that our 2008 Accord had noise coming from the rear wheel on the passenger side of the vehicle. I told her that the grinding sound she described sounded like brakes but I thought it had to be a wheel bearing because the car only had 28000 miles on it. I had her take the car to the dealership and she called me to say they informed her it was the rear brakes and it would be $210.00 to replace. I refused and inspected it myself. Sure enough the rear brakes were worn and strangely enough it was only the inside or car side pad that was worn all the way. I found this site on the internet shortly after. The rotors were too worn to be turned and I had to buy new ones. The autoparts stores in my area did not stock pads or rotors, not sure if that's because everyone is buying them or what, I had to order them and wait a day.

If you have any mechanical skill at all just do it yourself it's extremely easy. If you are scared to try it, check out youtube and watch a few of the videos. I finished them on a Saturday in about an hour.

I didn't realize that this site exist, but I am glad to know that I am not the only Honda Accord owner that had problems with the rear brake pads. I had to get my brake pads replaced after 27,000 miles and the majority of my miles are highway miles, not city traffic. I thought I would be completely satsified with my Honda, but I have been to the dealership several times for repairs that I should not have experienced for a BRAND NEW CAR. My brakes started squeaking around 10,000 and the dealership told me it was normal. Really?? I am really considering if my next purchase will be a Honda or not.

After having my car serviced with barley 20,000 miles on it, I was told the rear brakes needed to be replaced. After speaking with the general manager who honored a fifty/fifty replacement, I was still upset that I had to pay 100.00 for an issue they are fully aware of that with brakes wearing prematurely. I did not even have the car for 2 years, and out of all the cars/trucks/ suvs's we have purchased, none have had to have brakes replaced at 20,000 miles. This was the first Honda we purchased and will be our last.

About a week after I drove the car off the lot I went back because the breaks were squeeling when I stopped. They kept insisting it was just dust. My back breaks were bad at 12,500 miles, The dealership said that Honda was aware of the problem and there were probably be a recall on the breaking system. The replaced the breaks at no charge to me. Another 15,000 miles went by and the back breaks needed replacing again. The dealership told me Honda was no longer allowing them to do anything about it - it was just normal wear and tear on the breaks. I called Honda and filed a complaint. They said they were not going to do a recall on the breaks because it wasn't deemed to be a safety issue - and I could just count on new break pads every 12-15,000 miles. They said to just keep an eye on them so it didn't hit the rotors - thanks for the advice. My last 3 cars have been Honda's and this is the last Honda I will ever purchase. I have and I will continue to talk people out of purchasing Honda's with their No Customer Service Attitude.

So i also started noticing a very loud screechy noise coming from my 2008 automatic Accord. This sound would amplify when i drove near another car on my left. It was so loud it was like someone scratching their fingernail across a blackboard. I soon found out through researching on the interest that it might be my rear brakes. Turns out when i brought it to the dealership my brakes were down to 2mm while the front were still at 9mm! They replaced my brakes and knew there was a problem with the brakes but American Honda won;t do anything about it. Worst of all, i had to pay $190 for new rear brakes at only 24,400 miles. My old 1995 accord brakes lasted til 100k miles because I'm a very safe and cautious driver and never drive close to anyone's rear. So after the new brakes were replaced, I also replaced the obnoxious rattling of the glove compartment, i can faintly hear the squeaky brake sound when i drive again. It's not as bad as before but i can faintly hear it sometimes and I'm not even sure if it's my car or I'm hallucinating. So after $190 spent, i found out that i might still have squeaky breaks. My next car will definitely not be an Accord.

I bought a 2008 Honda Accord for reliability and found out that the right side of the car sounded like a washing machine next to the wall. I took it to the dealer just before the warranty ran out and asked him to check it. He said the read brakes wore out prematurely but they would cover it once under warranty at no cost to me. They said the rear brake pads are faulty and were replaced with better ones. The good news is I didn't have to pay but the bad news is I may have to replace the drums at my cost. This is not fare and I will contact Honda and try to get them to step up to a very bad reliability. The rear brakes should last longer than the front brakes. For safety and other reasons they should have told all the owners first. They are just fixing the squeaky wheels.