Federal complaint record · Honda Accord · model year 1996

1996 Honda Accord

Owners submitted 472 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 79th percentile for complaint intensity within its 1994 to 1998 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 19% · group n = 111Engine · 19% · group n = 109Brakes · 14% · group n = 81Electrical · 8% · group n = 44Other · 7% · group n = 39
472
Complaint records on file
106,602
Median mileage at the reported problem · 85 complaints reported mileage
19%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 111
79th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 26 model years

Airbags · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags19%

Airbags reports

Honda Accord · model year 1996

Reports in this group111
Share of classified reports19%
Component groups on file6
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From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Brake performance · 82 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 1 of 31996 Honda Accord
Airbag concerns · 76 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 2 of 31996 Honda Accord
Stalling or shutdown · 21 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 3 of 31996 Honda Accord

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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