2006 Honda Accord
This year drew an ordinary 430 complaints for a Honda Accord — the model's median is 579. What they were about is the unusual part: 17.9% of them mention bags, against 5.2% across the model's other years.
Generation 1 of the Honda Accord, which began in 2003 and ran to 2007. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 430 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 579 |
| Involving a crash | 52 |
| Involving a fire | 8 |
| Recalls | 17 |
| EPA combined | 23 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- bags — 17.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.2% across the model's other years (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: bags, air bags, deploy, police report.
- bag — 9.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.8% across the model's other years (5.3×). Owners wrote it as: bag, air bag.
- deployed — 7.2% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the model's other years (4.8×). Owners wrote it as: deployed, curtain.
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 VIN WAS INCLUDED IN NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBERS: 15V320000 (AIR BAGS) AND 15V370000 (AIR BAGS). BEFORE THE RECALL REPAIRS WERE COMPLETED, THE VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN A CRASH. WHILE TRAVELING APPROXIMATELY 25 MPH, ANOTHER VEHICLE CRASHED INTO THE FRONT PASSENGER…
SHE WAS INVOLVED IN A MINOR CRASH WHERE THE AIR BAGS DEPLOYED. THE SPECIFICS OF THE CRASH WERE NOT AVAILABLE AND A POLICE REPORT WAS NOT FILED. THE CONTACT SUSTAINED BURNS TO THE STOMACH DUE TO THE AIR BAG DEPLOYEMNT. THE VEHICLE WAS DESTROYED. THE [VIN] WAS N…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V182000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19E068000 VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL Fixed free of charge.
- 19V499000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V501000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 06V270000 EQUIPMENT
- 18V268000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V178000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V370000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 17. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda Accord 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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