Model years Honda Accord Hybrid
2014 Honda Accord Hybrid
Complaints about this year name starter far more often than the model's other years — 21% of them, about 51× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 1,912 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 76 |
| Involving a crash | 106 |
| Involving a fire | 20 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 47 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- starter — 27.8% of this year's complaints, against 3.4% across the model's other years (8.2×). Owners wrote it as: starter, car start, stranded, alternator.
- start — 27.6% of this year's complaints, against 7.2% across the model's other years (3.8×).
- battery — 15.7% of this year's complaints, against 4.7% across the model's other years (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: battery, good, new battery.
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
- start — 28% of complaints, 6× usual
- abs — 11% of complaints, 15× usual
- battery — 14% of complaints, 5× usual
What owners wrote
Starter not working all the time. Will not start engine. Constantly doing oil changes. Battery replacements too often. Won’t start.
STARTER WENT BAD AND WAS INTERMITTENT. THE SOLENOID WOULD NOT WORK AT TIMES. ALSO ENGINE WOULD TURN OVER SLOWLY LIKE IT HAD A BAD BATTERY.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V602000 HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
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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