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Model years to avoid

Honda Accord Hybrid

What it says about you

Opinion

You wanted the Accord and did the arithmetic on the fuel, and the arithmetic said yes. Nobody at the dinner table has ever been told about this.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

16 model years on record, 5,835 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2019 (fuel), 2015 (starter), 2014 (starter), 2007 (airbag), 2006 (airbag), 2005 (airbag). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • brake 2017, 2023, 2024 peak 36% of that year's complaints
  • start 2014, 2015, 2017 peak 29.7% of that year's complaints
  • starter 2014, 2015 peak 27.8% of that year's complaints
  • fuel 2018, 2019 peak 24.4% of that year's complaints
  • bags 2005, 2006, 2007 peak 19% of that year's complaints
  • airbag 2005, 2006, 2007 peak 14.1% of that year's complaints
  • bag 2005, 2006, 2007 peak 12.7% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 1 recall 0 complaints
  2. 2025 2 recalls 21 complaints
  3. 2024 4 recalls 76 complaints
  4. 2023 6 recalls 139 complaints
  5. 2022 1 recall 54 complaints
  6. 2021 3 recalls 47 complaints
  7. 2020 5 recalls 39 complaints
  8. 2019 fuel 529 complaints
  9. 2018 4 recalls 113 complaints
  10. 2017 2 recalls 45 complaints
  11. 2016 0 recalls 1 complaints
  12. 2015 starter 1,218 complaints
  13. 2014 starter 1,912 complaints
  14. 2007 airbag 525 complaints
  15. 2006 airbag 430 complaints
  16. 2005 airbag 686 complaints

What does a Honda Accord Hybrid say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.