Model years Honda Accord Hybrid
2017 Honda Accord Hybrid
This year drew an ordinary 45 complaints for a Honda Accord Hybrid — the model's median is 113. What they were about is the unusual part: 33.3% of them mention stop, against 9.9% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 45 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 113 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 48 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- stop — 33.3% of this year's complaints, against 9.9% across the model's other years (3.4×).
- brake — 26.7% of this year's complaints, against 10.5% across the model's other years (2.5×).
- off restart — 6.7% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (33.3×).
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.
What owners wrote
THE BRAKES FAILED WHILE DRIVING. WHILE DRIVING AS A SLOW SPEED (FORTUNATELY) I APPLIED THE BRAKES AND ALL THE DASH FAULTS CAME ON AND THE BRAKED FAILED TO WORK. I HAD TO USE THE E-BRAKE TO STOP. I TURNED THE CAR OFF, BACK ON, THE FAULTS CLEARED AND THE BRAKES…
WHILE OPERATING THE VEHICLE, THE "BRAKING SYSTEM FAILURE" MESSAGE WAS DISPLAYED AND THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT IMMEDIATELY STOP WHEN PRESSING THE BRAKE PEDAL. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO WHITE PLAINS HONDA (16 BANK ST, WHITE PLAINS, NY) WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 26V332000 AIR BAGS 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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