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Honda Accord 2021

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

0.42 per 1,000

0.8 times this nameplate’s own median · from 85 complaints filed in the first three years, of 289 ever. 95% lower bound 0.33.

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.

Electrical System 74 complaints

touch	16	22%
infotainment	16	22%
ghost	13	18%
touches	11	15%
distracting	10	14%

Forward Collision Avoidance 74 complaints

slowed

12%

Unknown Or Other 66 complaints

infotainment	24	37%
distracting	16	25%
touches	15	23%
ghost	14	22%
infotainment system	14	22%
touch screen	11	17%

When it breaks

36% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 60,000 miles, from 31 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.

Inadvertent Automatic Emergency Braking

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:

11399536 · 11412992 · 11416061 · 11420769 · 11428388 · 11430390

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.