2018 Honda Accord
Complaints about this year name system gasoline far more often than the other years of this generation — 8% of them, about 6× the usual rate of 1.3%.
First year of a new generation. The Honda Accord was redesigned for 2018. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 1,833 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 530 |
| Involving a crash | 34 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 28.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- injectors — 7.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: injectors, fuel injectors.
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
- gasoline however — 7% of complaints, 9× usual
- fuel system — 9% of complaints, 4× usual
- fuel injectors — 7% of complaints, 3× usual
What owners wrote
upon starting the vehicle, the check engine warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, who diagnosed a failure with the fuel injectors. The vehicle was not repaired. After investigating the failure, the contact related the failure to NHTSA…
when the vehicle was started in the morning, there were several unknown warning lights illuminated. The contact stated that the vehicle was running and idling roughly and was vibrating abnormally. The contact had taken the vehicle to a local dealer, where it w…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V314000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 20V771000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 18V629000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 23V158000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 26V332000 AIR BAGS 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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