Federal complaint record · Honda Accord · model year 2008

2008 Honda Accord

Owners submitted 1,520 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 91th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2006 to 2010 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is brakes. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Brakes · 31% · group n = 583Airbags · 20% · group n = 379Engine · 14% · group n = 251Lighting · 6% · group n = 117Electrical · 6% · group n = 108
1,520
Complaint records on file
27,046
Median mileage at the reported problem · 1,133 complaints reported mileage
31%
Of classified component reports name brakes · group n = 583
91th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Brakes · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Brakes31%

Brakes reports

Honda Accord · model year 2008

Reports in this group583
Share of classified reports31%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2007
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
524 matched incidents
This car
2008
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,520 matched incidents
2009
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
720 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
Brake performance · 565 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 1 of 32008 Honda Accord
Airbag concerns · 312 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 2 of 32008 Honda Accord
Engine damage · 60 reports

Reports describe engine damage or oil consumption

Cluster 3 of 32008 Honda Accord

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

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