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Model years to avoid

Honda Accord

What it says about you

Opinion

The correct answer for forty years running, and you know it, and you are slightly bored of being right. It will still be running when you are done with it.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

22 model years on record, 13,202 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2018 (system gasoline), 2013 (steering), 2008 (rear brakes). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • steering 2013, 2024, 2025 peak 45.5% of that year's complaints
  • wheel 2013, 2024, 2025 peak 31.2% of that year's complaints
  • bags 2005, 2006, 2007 peak 19.1% of that year's complaints
  • airbag 2005, 2006, 2007 peak 14.1% of that year's complaints
  • bag 2005, 2006 peak 12.7% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 nothing on record 4 complaints
  2. 2025 0 recalls 77 complaints
  3. 2024 3 recalls 135 complaints
  4. 2023 5 recalls 83 complaints
  5. 2022 4 recalls 223 complaints
  6. 2021 4 recalls 217 complaints
  7. 2020 5 recalls 345 complaints
  8. 2019 6 recalls 665 complaints
  9. 2018 system gasoline 1,833 complaints
  10. 2017 3 recalls 530 complaints
  11. 2016 4 recalls 594 complaints
  12. 2015 5 recalls 600 complaints
  13. 2014 4 recalls 977 complaints
  14. 2013 steering 1,418 complaints
  15. 2012 8 recalls 746 complaints
  16. 2011 9 recalls 296 complaints
  17. 2010 13 recalls 579 complaints
  18. 2009 11 recalls 720 complaints
  19. 2008 rear brakes 1,520 complaints
  20. 2007 10 recalls 524 complaints
  21. 2006 17 recalls 430 complaints
  22. 2005 24 recalls 686 complaints

What does a Honda Accord say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.