Model years Honda Accord Hybrid
2015 Honda Accord Hybrid
Complaints about this year name starter far more often than the model's other years — 18% of them, about 45× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 1,218 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 76 |
| Involving a crash | 72 |
| Involving a fire | 14 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 47 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- starter — 25.6% of this year's complaints, against 4.4% across the model's other years (5.8×). Owners wrote it as: starter, stranded, click, grinding.
- start — 29.7% of this year's complaints, against 7.2% across the model's other years (4.1×).
- battery — 24.3% of this year's complaints, against 5.2% across the model's other years (4.6×). Owners wrote it as: battery, alternator, battery sensor, new battery.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
Also unusual this year
- start — 30% of complaints, 6× usual
- battery — 22% of complaints, 8× usual
- starting — 11% of complaints, 7× usual
What owners wrote
PROBLEMS WITH THE CAR STARTING. AFTER PRESSING THE START BUTTON IT SOUNDS LIKE STATIC, CLICKS, OR DOES NOTHING AT ALL. EXTENDED WARRANTY HAS REPLACED, BATTERY AND STARTER TWICE IN A 2 MONTH PERIOD AND STILL SAME PROBLEM. CAR ONLY HAS 56,000 MILES. DEALER CAN'T…
INTERMITTENT PROBLEMS WITH STARTING. PUSH IGNITION BUTTON A FEW TIMES BEFORE IT WILL START ALTHOUGH THERE IS POWER. THEN FINALLY COMPLETELY FAILED TO START. BATTERY IS GOOD, STARTER GOOD... EXTRA VOLTAGE BY JUMP STARTING SEEMS TO TEMPORARILY FIX IT. NO HONDA A…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V602000 HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda Accord Hybrid was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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