Model years Honda Accord Hybrid
2007 Honda Accord Hybrid
Complaints about this year name airbag far more often than the model's other years — 9% of them, about 22× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 525 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 76 |
| Involving a crash | 88 |
| Involving a fire | 15 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 27 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- bags — 19% of this year's complaints, against 5.6% across the model's other years (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: bags, air bags, police, deploy.
- airbag — 11.2% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the model's other years (6.6×). Owners wrote it as: airbag, curtain, airbag light, stays.
- bag — 9.3% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the model's other years (5.5×). Owners wrote it as: bag, air bag, bag deployed, bag warning.
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 — 11% of complaints, 6× usual
- air bag — 9% of complaints, 7× usual
- airbags — 7% of complaints, 9× usual
What owners wrote
DEFECTED AIR BAGS ON BOTH SIDE. HAD SEVERAL ACCIDENTS WHERE I WAS INJURY, AND HAD TO SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION.
"TAKATA RECALL" PASSENGER SIDE AIRBAGS ON THE RIGHT SIDE FAILED TO DEPLOY UPON RIGHT SIDE IMPACT. SEVERELY INJURING MY PASSENGER.
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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