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Honda Accord 2008

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

1.87 per 1,000

3.3 times this nameplate’s own median · from 698 complaints filed in the first three years, of 1517 ever. 95% lower bound 1.73.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	1.87	698
2009	0.82	272
2010	0.56	169
2011	0.28	76
2012	0.50	141
2013	1.04	363
2014	0.54	203
2015	0.44	164
2016	0.57	199
2017	0.55	184
2018	1.49	456
2019	0.63	175
2020	0.55	129
2021	0.42	85
2022	0.55	98
2023	1.05	186

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Service Brakes 572 complaints

rear	435	76%
rear brakes	258	45%
premature	128	22%
brake wear	73	13%
premature brake	49	9%
accords	46	8%

Air Bags 379 complaints

recall notification	67	18%
door	62	16%
numbers air	48	13%
campaign numbers	48	13%
curtain	43	11%
bags air	37	10%

Engine 210 complaints

actuator	53	25%
vtc	52	25%
vtc actuator	43	21%
cold	41	20%
rattling	23	11%
cold start	22	11%

When it breaks

54% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 27,292 miles, from 1135 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

3 investigations covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 168 complaints about this component over roughly 75 months before an investigation opened.

Inadvertent Side Air Bag Deployment

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

10207561 · 10211017 · 10212974 · 10213585 · 10214629 · 10215318

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.