Federal complaint record · Honda Accord · model year 2013

2013 Honda Accord

Owners submitted 1,418 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 85th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2011 to 2015 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is steering. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Steering · 26% · group n = 498Electrical · 22% · group n = 417Engine · 10% · group n = 186Other · 7% · group n = 131Brakes · 6% · group n = 115
1,418
Complaint records on file
45,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 881 complaints reported mileage
26%
Of classified component reports name steering · group n = 498
85th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Steering · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Steering26%

Steering reports

Honda Accord · model year 2013

Reports in this group498
Share of classified reports26%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2012
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
371 matched incidents
This car
2013
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,418 matched incidents
2014
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
970 matched incidents

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
Steering effort · 391 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 1 of 32013 Honda Accord
Brake performance · 177 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32013 Honda Accord
Electrical faults · 122 reports

Reports describe electrical faults or battery drain

Cluster 3 of 32013 Honda Accord

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

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