Federal complaint record · Honda Accord · model year 2006

2006 Honda Accord

Owners submitted 430 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 49th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2004 to 2008 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 24% · group n = 130Brakes · 10% · group n = 54Powertrain · 9% · group n = 49Steering · 9% · group n = 48Electrical · 8% · group n = 42
430
Complaint records on file
77,300
Median mileage at the reported problem · 309 complaints reported mileage
24%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 130
49th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 48 model years

Airbags · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Airbags24%

Airbags reports

Honda Accord · model year 2006

Reports in this group130
Share of classified reports24%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

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2005
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
656 matched incidents
This car
2006
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
430 matched incidents
2007
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
524 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
Airbag concerns · 105 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32006 Honda Accord
Brake performance · 61 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32006 Honda Accord
Fire or smoke · 33 reports

Reports describe smoke, burning smells, or fire

Cluster 3 of 32006 Honda Accord

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

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