I have owned Accords, Odysseys, and Civics since 1992, and in all of those vehicles, only my current 2015 Accord LX CVT has a voracious appetite for wheel bearings. My first episode was in October of 2017 with 60,000 miles on the clock. Noticed intermittent howling from the rear of the vehicle and thought it was from the original equipment Firestone tires. During a tire rotation/oil change, I noticed that the passenger rear hub would not turn freely. Removed the caliper and pads to see if it was due to a stuck caliper piston or dragging pads only to find that the hub was extremely hard to move. While the hub was extremely easy to replace, my local dealer had PLENTY of these hub assemblies in stock due to their consistent failure. I make checking hub operation part of all scheduled maintenance checks.

It is now September 2018 and I have been experiencing front-end vibrations over 60MPH. After several tire balancing episodes, I found that the real culprit was a set of rotors that got progressively worse over time. Invested in a set of higher-quality, balanced BOSCH rotors (Honda wants $179 each with my Friends and Family discount - even they don't stock them for that price). While the vibration has considerably diminished, I noticed that the vibration would come and go with that all-too-familiar growling that accompanies a bad wheel bearing. removing the driver's-side front knuckle, I found that the hub required significant effort to spin by hand - yep - bad wheel bearing. I cannot say for sure if the failure was due to a bad bearing or the out-of-balance rotors, but I'm having both sides replaced on account of that Murphy guy...

Went to do Maintenance on 05/28/2016 and they also did tire rotation. After Tire rotation there was terrible noise and vibration. Went back to the dealership (Coggin Honda) in Orlando Florida on 06/01/2016 and they advised me to go to Firestone to change the tires that seem to be bad. Firestone checked the tires on 06/10/2016 but found nothing wrong with the tire and advised me to go back to Honda. On 06/14/2016 I went back to Honda who told me to go back to Firestone and change the 4 tires. On 07/14/2016 I changed the 4 tires in Firestone and installed 4 new tires. Vibration still existed. I went back to Honda dealer on same day who advised me to come back on 07/26/2016 to meet and test drive the car with district maintenance technician. On that day, the district technician of Honda told me that the tires are still not good, and it may be better for me to turn on some music to aboid listening to the noise and vibration. He added that there is no solution for this at Honda. Honda may be a good car, but the dealers and technicians are not up to the standard. I am so sorry i have been buying Honda for 10 years (my wife and Myself). We changed like 10 accords