2011 Honda Accord
This year drew an ordinary 296 complaints for a Honda Accord — the model's median is 579. What they were about is the unusual part: 17.2% of them mention pain, against 6.1% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Honda Accord, which began in 2008 and ran to 2012. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 296 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 579 |
| Involving a crash | 33 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 9 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 26 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- pain — 17.2% of this year's complaints, against 6.1% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: pain, seats, uncomfortable, back pain.
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.
What owners wrote
THE FRONT SEATS IN MY 2011 HONDA ACCORD LX-P GIVE ME LEG CRAMPS AND LOWER BACK PAIN. THE SEAT BOTTOM IS VERY HARD AND UNFORGIVING, AND THE LUMBAR SUPPORT IS TOO PRONOUNCED. I TEST DROVE THE CAR FOR 15-20 MINS. AND DID NOT NOTICE THIS. BUT I SURE NOTICED IT ON…
CAR SEATS ARE VERY UNCOMFORTABLE MAKING DRIVER TO EXPERIENCE SEVERE BACK PAIN AND LEGS TO GO TO SLEEP.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V661000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V268000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V502000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V378000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V545000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V030000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V042000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V346000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 9. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda Accord 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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