10.0

really awful
Crashes / Fires:
11 / 2
Injuries / Deaths:
6 / 0
Average Mileage:
8,098 miles

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problem #80

Jun 042020

Accord

  • 45,000 miles
Car intermittently flashes all the cmbs lights and applies break on its own without any vehicle in front of the car. Honda dealership charged to diagnose a replace break switch. Problem still persist. Countless others are having same issue and reporting online forums and youtube. I almost got rearended multiple times due to this. Also when these lights come acive, drl sometimes do not work and reverse camera do not work. First happened June 2020(after issue, it allows the car to start without pressing break pedal), continues to happen often. Disconnecting the battery and reconnecting removes the issue for sometime then comes back few days to weeks/months later.

- Phoenix, AZ, USA

problem #79

Aug 212019

Accord

  • 8,000 miles
This is a leased 2018 Honda Accord, the vehicle has 8000 miles on it. The safety problem on this vehicle is that the electric system has shorted 5 batteries and has left me stranded in various locations, lending to unsafe conditions. The Honda dealer has replaced 5 batteries on my vehicle and now my car has broken-down again making it six shorted batteries on a vehicle that barely has 8K miles. When I talked to kyle lampp, assistant service manager at brandon Honda, he stated Honda Corp. Knows about the electric problems and they are unwilling to address it because of cost. Below are the dates of service repairs with included invoice numbers: 8/21/19 service# 514010 11/13/19 service# 531130 1/22/20 service# 544284 8/16/20 service#578092 11/19/20 service# 594896

- Tampa, FL, USA

problem #78

Jan 252021

Accord

  • miles
The Honda infotainment system would freeze and crash while the vehicle is in operation. The infotainment system is used as a navigation system, radio, backup camera and sets various settings for the car. When this defective infotainment system crashes, it causes the driver to think something bad is happening to the car and driver will be very distracted.

- Woodbury, MN, USA

problem #77

May 012019

Accord

  • miles
Very loud roaring noise when driving about 52-54mph (and intermittently at other speeds). This not engine noise, but seems to a glitch in the automatic noise cancelling system that causes a feedback loop resulting in an alarming roaring sound that can cause driver to panic or otherwise be distracted from driving safely.

- Edgewater, MD, USA

problem #76

Jan 032021

Accord

  • 28,000 miles
The ads breaking error comes on and the car won't start- this is the 3rd time and is a constant problem for this year- the steering wheel locks up this is very dangerous. This has happened moving and stationary. Honda says it is a simple error my car has less that 30K miles N this is a constant issue

- Newnan, GA, USA

problem #75

May 072020

Accord

  • 20,700 miles
This is a complaint for a unique occurrence of this problem on this date. In some instances, it seems that the ventilation system is potentially pulling noxious fumes in from the engine bay and in others, there seems to be an issue with moisture retention when ac is run. The vehicle seems to force foul smelling air in to the cab. Honda has failed to properly troubleshoot the issue (I.e. retain the vehicle for more than a few hours and try to understand if there is an issue with the ventilation system or something else).

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #74

Mar 092020

Accord

  • 17,000 miles
This is a complaint for a unique occurrence of this problem on this date. In some instances, it seems that the ventilation system is potentially pulling noxious fumes in from the engine bay and in others, there seems to be an issue with moisture retention when ac is run. The vehicle seems to force foul smelling air in to the cab. Honda has failed to properly troubleshoot the issue (I.e. retain the vehicle for more than a few hours and try to understand if there is an issue with the ventilation system or something else).

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #73

Mar 022020

Accord

  • 17,000 miles
This is a complaint for a unique occurrence of this problem on this date. In some instances, it seems that the ventilation system is potentially pulling noxious fumes in from the engine bay and in others, there seems to be an issue with moisture retention when ac is run. The vehicle seems to force foul smelling air in to the cab. Honda has failed to properly troubleshoot the issue (I.e. retain the vehicle for more than a few hours and try to understand if there is an issue with the ventilation system or something else).

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #72

May 032020

Accord

  • 20,000 miles
This is a complaint for a unique occurrence of this problem on this date. In some instances, it seems that the ventilation system is potentially pulling noxious fumes in from the engine bay and in others, there seems to be an issue with moisture retention when ac is run. The vehicle seems to force foul smelling air in to the cab. Honda has failed to properly troubleshoot the issue (I.e. retain the vehicle for more than a few hours and try to understand if there is an issue with the ventilation system or something else).

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #71

Mar 162020

Accord

  • 17,000 miles
This is a complaint for a unique occurrence of this problem on this date. In some instances, it seems that the ventilation system is potentially pulling noxious fumes in from the engine bay and in others, there seems to be an issue with moisture retention when ac is run. The vehicle seems to force foul smelling air in to the cab. Honda has failed to properly troubleshoot the issue (I.e. retain the vehicle for more than a few hours and try to understand if there is an issue with the ventilation system or something else).

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #70

May 042020

Accord

  • miles
The infotainment unit in the 2018 Honda Accord early on exhibited a number of issues, one of them being, poor connectivity via bluetooth. In this instance, the vehicle was showing the battery status of the connected device and claimed that there is one connected, but, at the same time, was indicated that no device is connected. See the attached picture.

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #69

Dec 212020

Accord

  • 27,500 miles
A few months after buying the 2018 Accord, Honda had to put a software update, which they claimed was going to address and issue with the back-up camera (which always seemed to work fine, at least on my car). Shortly after the update, the infotainment unit had started to randomly (and rather frequently) reset itself every few day. Honda (after some trips to the dealer and several attempts to reach out to the Honda of America hq) had failed to acknowledge the issue and, eventually, begrudgingly had admitted to the problem; however, they had failed to produce a fix for months. My vehicle still does not have a fix applied and keeps having resets. I have spoken with a 2018 Honda Odyssey (which uses the same system), who finally gave up and got rid of the vehicle due to the number of recalls (and, to some extent, very poor handling of the issues by Honda dealer(s) and Honda), but they had to have their unit physically replaced. Supposedly, there now a recall, but you have to take the vehicle to the dealer (surprise, not). As it stands, Honda may have used a piece of hw which has a built-in failure (this could be more insidious than just a sw fix) and is refusing to address it in hundreds of thousands of vehicles. Why can't this be done via a 'simple' sw update the way 21st century car-makers do" or is Honda simply hiding an inevitable failure via sw update" on the noted date, this was yet another reset of the unit. The vehicle now has about 27,500 miles, but has exhibited this behavior for thousands of miles/over a year.

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #68

Dec 152020

Accord

  • miles
The infotainment unit in the 2018 Honda Accord early on exhibited a number of issues, one of them being, poor connectivity via bluetooth. In this instance, while the device was disconnected intentionally, the infotainment unit failed to retain the device's information and failed to reconnect upon a manually-initiated request from the device later.

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #67

Nov 182020

Accord

  • miles
The infotainment unit in the 2018 Honda Accord early on exhibited a number of issues, one of them being, poor connectivity via bluetooth. In this instance, the vehicle was showing wrong battery status for the connected device.

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #66

Dec 142020

Accord

  • 35,900 miles
The 2018 Honda Accord hybrid's active noise canceling (anc) system is flawed. The car howls, roars and can even produce a loud boom at certain conditions (ie. Light acceleration, engine rpms ~2250, colder temps (<50degf), starting @ 30+mph but worst is @ ~52mph). I took the car into my local Honda dealer who confirmed the problem. However, after they checked the internal car microphones were ok (per a Honda service bulletin test, ...so Honda America knows there is a problem), they stopped work and told me Honda corporate won't let them replace the anc, because apparently the technician's audio recording of the problem in my car wasn't sufficiently adequate. Note: I find this problem is repeatedly discussed on the various 2018-20 Honda Accord hybrid forums with many frustrated owners. Like many on the forums, I asked (and paid for) the Honda technician to disconnect the anc. While the low speed road noise is much higher, the roar, howling and obnoxious boom is gone. It sure would be nice to get my quiet car back someday. Can nhsta help? note: If needed, I can upload the Honda dealer service documents wrt above, please advise, thanks

- Webster, NY, USA

problem #65

Mar 262020

Accord

  • 7 miles
Rear speakers continue to make horrible scratchy sound when driving and using audio. Speakers have already been and problem still continues. Vehicle was stationary, in motion, on a city street or a highway, turning, braking, etc.

- Riverside, CA, USA

problem #64

Nov 272020

Accord

  • 76,400 miles
My car passenger side tail gate trunk led light damaged.

- College Park, MD, USA

problem #63

Nov 022020

Accord

  • miles
I have changed two batteries since I bought it first battery that it came with completely died and couldn't even get a jump. Changed it and now I have to keep getting jump everyday. My windshield has also cracked twice from passenger side to driver side. No puncture mark indicating something hit it.

- Dallas, TX, USA

problem #62

Mar 012020

Accord

  • 4,000 miles
The seals around the doors, weather stripping is coming lose, seats are falling apart, the radio and navigation screen will go black and reboot itself. The collision control system will get you killed if you're not careful. I was getting onto the highway from a traffic light, had my turn signal on. As I'm merging onto the highway going about 50 mph, the car thinks I've fallen asleep or something. The car forcibly takes me back into the right lane and downshifts the car while braking? scared me to death. I was told it was because I didn't have a turn signal on. Luckily it was 3am or I could've been smashed. Also, the brake light will flash at times, no one is in front of you. Or it flashes like you're about to hit someone but doesn't do anything but flash. Also, if you drive any length, it system will state that the driver has low attention span. Not sure why, it's not like I'm weaving. I think the car needs to feel some movement of the steering or it thinks you're nodding off. The car salesman warned me that the new bells and whistles, technology, could have issues because the tech is new but nothing specific. Try to sell me 3800 in warranty to cover tech. Thought it was strange at the time. Now, I'm thinking that he knew specifics and didn't share.

- Independence, KY, USA

problem #61

Sep 212020

Accord

  • 25,500 miles
I was driving the other night at 9pm. Dry conditions and about 65 degrees outside. I had pulled up to a stop sign and as I came to a complete stop by car started sending me warning notices. See attached pictures. I was told I probably had bugs on one of the front sensors on the vehicle. After a good cleaning of thise areas this still didn't solve the issue. I bought this vehicle because Honda is known for it's safety but that looks like it's not the case anymore.

- West Allis, WI, USA

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