Federal complaint record · Honda Accord · model year 1999

1999 Honda Accord

Owners submitted 1,135 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 93th percentile for complaint intensity within its 1997 to 2001 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is electrical. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Electrical · 30% · group n = 398Powertrain · 19% · group n = 251Engine · 13% · group n = 176Airbags · 6% · group n = 74Structure · 5% · group n = 72
1,135
Complaint records on file
105,845
Median mileage at the reported problem · 638 complaints reported mileage
30%
Of classified component reports name electrical · group n = 398
93th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 36 model years

Electrical · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Electrical30%

Electrical reports

Honda Accord · model year 1999

Reports in this group398
Share of classified reports30%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
1998
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,200 matched incidents
This car
1999
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,135 matched incidents
2000
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,183 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Stalling or shutdown · 263 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 1 of 31999 Honda Accord
Transmission behavior · 203 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 2 of 31999 Honda Accord
Airbag concerns · 65 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 3 of 31999 Honda Accord

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

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