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Honda Accord 2016

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

0.57 per 1,000

1.0 times this nameplate’s own median · from 199 complaints filed in the first three years, of 606 ever. 95% lower bound 0.49.

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.

Electrical System 199 complaints

static	77	39%
speakers	46	23%
static noise	39	20%
loud static	37	19%
head unit	19	10%
extremely loud	16	8%

Unknown Or Other 128 complaints

static	56	44%
static noise	35	28%
speakers	35	28%
loud static	30	24%
audio system	18	14%
head unit	14	11%

Exterior Lighting 128 complaints

led	80	62%
strip	26	21%
led strip	20	16%
led daytime	15	12%
accords	13	10%
side daytime	11	9%

When it breaks

44% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 36,000 miles, from 291 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.

Pedestrian alert sounds

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.