I bought my new 2009 Honda Accord EX-L V6 with 55 miles on it mid-June. When I got out of the dealer's parking lot, it was just fine. However, when I was in the highway at variable speeds of 55-65 miles per hour and started braking, I noticed this terrible vibration in the steering column. It was as if I was in an earthquake zone, 6.5 magnitude in a Richter Scale. The car was trembling hard every time I braked. I am a Honda car fan and many times a loyal customer. My first car was a 1980 Honda Accord LX Coupe and the second one was a 1993 Prelude SI . Then I got a 1997 Accord V6. I also bought a 1999 Honda Civic Coupe for my son. This is the first time I have this problem with a new car. The dealer's explanation was that it was seating in the parking lot for so long before it got sold and that dirts or sediments or other weather related stuffs sipped through the

I bought my new 2009 Honda Accord EX-L V6 with 55 miles on it mid-June. When I got out of the dealer's parking lot, it was just fine. However, when I was in the highway at variable speeds of 55-65 miles per hour and started braking, I noticed this terrible vibration in the steering column. It was as if I was in an earthquake zone at 6.5 magnitude in a Richter Scale. The car was trembling hard every time I braked. I am a Honda car fan and many times a loyal customer. My first car was a 1980 Honda Accord LX Coupe and the second one was a 1993 Prelude SI . Then I got a 1997 Accord V6. I also bought a 1999 Honda Civic Coupe for my son. This is the first time I have had this problem with a new car. The dealer's explanation was that it was siting in the parking lot for so long before it got sold and that dirts or sediments or other weather related stuffs sipped through the brakes that caused it. I don't believe it. I thought the reasoning was shallow and an afterthought. This might be a manufacturer's defect on this car because I saw other buyers in the Internet with the same complaint. Honda Motors should look into this. By the way, I went back to the dealer and they rotated the rotors and it was 90% fixed. I still feel a little vibration but I can live with it. I will still have to have them fix the 10% vibration though if they can. There should be no reason to have this kind of problem for a newly bought car, don't you think? I did not have this problem with the previous ones. I was a bit disappointed.This more luxurious, more expensive model should be better not worse. I am just hoping now that the premature brake wear problems being reported by other owners will not happen with my car which has a reading of 1,350 miles in the odometer in more than a month's use.

Ok so as you may have realized, there are alot of people with brake problems on accords. I previously owned a 2006 Ridgeline RTL NAV that I bought new and traded in last Friday with 62000 miles. I have 0 complaints, it was excellent except that the rotors warped at 40000 miles. I realized it wasn't under warranty and replaced with Stillen Cross Drilled Rotors and Ceramic Pads (I did not spare a single expense) and the job doing it myself was $810 for all 4 sets of rotors and pads. The day I picked up my new accord I noticed a mild vibration while braking (hard or soft) but I was babying the car and expecting (still expecting) the problem to go away. I will bring my car in this weekend and explain the issue.

1. I expect them to replace the obviously defective rotors on all 4 wheels as well as pads.

2. If my needs are not met, I will purchase an extremely high end Brembo system and then contact the BBB and hire a lawyer to be reimbursed.

People, don't be such over expectant pussies. A lot of products are under engineered to make them affordable. Accords are not a high end product and for the most part are an excellent product for the money. The trick to not pulling your hair out is to realize these natural deficiencies, and deal with them yourself instead of always expecting someone else to deal with it. I own a service business myself, and I can tell you the customers who are polite when problems arise and allow me to solve them in a timely and correct fashion get a lot further than those who bitch and moan.

So act like an adult with a rational mind