2015 Honda Accord
This year drew an ordinary 600 complaints for a Honda Accord — the model's median is 530. What they were about is the unusual part: 6.5% of them mention stranded, against 1.4% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 3 of the Honda Accord, which began in 2013 and ran to 2017. 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 | 600 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 530 |
| Involving a crash | 37 |
| Involving a fire | 7 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 26 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- stranded — 6.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.4% across the other years of this generation (4.5×).
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
DEFECTIVE STARTER MEANT I WAS OFTEN STRANDED, UNABLE TO START THE CAR. HAD TO REPLACE STARTER ON CAR AFTER LESS THAN FOUR YEARS OF USE.
Vehicle failing to start consistently. Battery is fine. No noise is heard when moving key to start. Either starter or ignition is bad. Concern about being stranded.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V060000 FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER Fixed free of charge.
- 17V418000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 15V121000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 20V769000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
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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