Model years Honda Accord Hybrid
2005 Honda Accord Hybrid
Complaints about this year name airbag far more often than the model's other years — 12% of them, about 31× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 686 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 76 |
| Involving a crash | 96 |
| Involving a fire | 11 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 28 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- airbag — 14.1% of this year's complaints, against 1.6% across the model's other years (8.6×). Owners wrote it as: airbag, stays, airbag light, airbag deployed.
- bag — 12.7% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the model's other years (7.5×). Owners wrote it as: bag, air bag, bag warning, bag light.
- bags — 15.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the model's other years (4.2×). Owners wrote it as: bags, air bags, sustained, police report.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
Also unusual this year
- air bag — 13% of complaints, 10× usual
- transmission — 12% of complaints, 7× usual
- gear — 8% of complaints, 10× usual
What owners wrote
"TAKATA RECALL" I HAVE HAD AN AIR BAG LIGHT ON FOR YEARS AND THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN DEPLOYED. EVERY TIME I CHECK FOR A RECALL AND MINE HAS NEVER HAD ONE, THEN WHY HAS MY AIRBAG LIGHT STAY ON?
THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER TO HAVE REPAIRS UNDER NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 11V395000 (POWER TRAIN: AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION) PERFORMED, BUT THE TRANSMISSION CONTINUED TO SLIP AND JERK WHILE CHANGING GEARS. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 100,000 AND THE CURRENT…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda Accord Hybrid was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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