Model years Honda Accord Hybrid
2006 Honda Accord Hybrid
Complaints about this year name airbag far more often than the model's other years — 9% of them, about 23× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 430 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 76 |
| Involving a crash | 52 |
| Involving a fire | 8 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 25 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- bags — 17.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.3% across the model's other years (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: bags, air bags, deploy, police report.
- bag — 9.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the model's other years (5.6×). Owners wrote it as: bag, air bag.
- deployed — 7.2% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the model's other years (3.9×). Owners wrote it as: deployed, curtain.
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 bags — 12% of complaints, 6× usual
- air bag — 9% of complaints, 7× usual
- fluid — 7% of complaints, 16× usual
What owners wrote
TAKATA RECALL OUR HONDA ACCORD WAS IN A ACCIDENT REAR-ENDING ANOTHER VEHICLE ON OCT.17TH 2017. THE POLICE REPORT INDICATED THE HONDA WAS MOVING AT ABOUT 50 MPH AND THE AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY UPON IMPACT. THE AIR BAGS ON BOTH PASSENGER AND DRIVER ARE STILL INT…
NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V351000 (AIR BAGS) HAD EXCEEDED A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME FOR REPAIR. THE [VIN] STATED THEY WOULD CALL THE CONTACT BACK AND SET UP AN APPOINTMENT. HOWEVER A CALL WAS NOT RETURNED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE CONTACT HAD NOT EXP…
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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