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Honda Accord 2009

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

0.82 per 1,000

1.5 times this nameplate’s own median · from 272 complaints filed in the first three years, of 725 ever. 95% lower bound 0.72.

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 235 complaints

rear brakes	79	33%
worn	43	18%
premature	40	17%
class action	26	11%
class	26	11%
accords	23	10%

Air Bags 143 complaints

recall notification	26	18%
insurance	17	12%
company	14	10%
medical	13	9%
contact's	12	9%
insurance company	11	8%

Engine 111 complaints

oil consumption	38	34%
consumption	38	34%
actuator	17	16%
vtc	16	15%
vtc actuator	14	13%
rings	14	13%

When it breaks

46% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 32,988 miles, from 516 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

2 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:

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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.