Federal complaint record · Honda Accord · model year 2009

2009 Honda Accord

Owners submitted 720 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 65th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2007 to 2011 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is brakes. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Brakes · 28% · group n = 239Airbags · 17% · group n = 142Engine · 16% · group n = 140Other · 5% · group n = 46Electrical · 5% · group n = 43
720
Complaint records on file
32,900
Median mileage at the reported problem · 515 complaints reported mileage
28%
Of classified component reports name brakes · group n = 239
65th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Brakes · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Brakes28%

Brakes reports

Honda Accord · model year 2009

Reports in this group239
Share of classified reports28%
Component groups on file6
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The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Brake performance · 227 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 1 of 32009 Honda Accord
Airbag concerns · 115 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 2 of 32009 Honda Accord
Engine damage · 44 reports

Reports describe engine damage or oil consumption

Cluster 3 of 32009 Honda Accord

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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