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Honda Accord 2010

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.56 per 1,000

1.0 times this nameplate’s own median · from 169 complaints filed in the first three years, of 640 ever. 95% lower bound 0.48.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	1.87	698
2009	0.82	272
2010	0.56	169
2011	0.28	76
2012	0.50	141
2013	1.04	363
2014	0.54	203
2015	0.44	164
2016	0.57	199
2017	0.55	184
2018	1.49	456
2019	0.63	175
2020	0.55	129
2021	0.42	85
2022	0.55	98
2023	1.05	186

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Engine 143 complaints

consumption	43	30%
excessive oil	27	19%
rings	15	11%
piston rings	13	9%
between oil	12	9%
vtc	11	8%

Air Bags 139 complaints

takata	65	47%
takata recall	60	43%
recall notification	31	22%
part repair	19	14%
repair experienced	16	12%
recall recall	11	8%

Service Brakes 137 complaints

class	19	14%
class action	18	13%
lawsuit	13	10%
settlement	10	8%
action lawsuit	10	8%

When it breaks

39% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 43,000 miles, from 414 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

1 investigation covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 168 complaints about this component over roughly 75 months before an investigation opened.

SRS Control Module Failure

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

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Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.