This model year has 1,877 processed complaint reports; ENGINE is the most frequently classified system at 29.5% of reports.
Federal telemetry verified ● Model-year dossier
2018 HONDA ACCORD
Complaint-pattern analysis from publicly available NHTSA safety records.
1.0Reliability score / 10
System health index
Reliability telemetry
A normalized signal from documented incident volume and NHTSA crash or fire report flags.
Documented incidents1,877
Reports with crash / fire flags39
Flagged-report share2.08%
Primary reported systemENGINE
Crash and fire flags identify how a complaint was recorded by NHTSA. They do not establish that a reported component caused the event.
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Component analysis
Most frequently reported systems.
ENGINE553 documented reports
29.5%FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE337 documented reports
18.0%FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM303 documented reports
16.1%ELECTRICAL SYSTEM290 documented reports
15.5%SERVICE BRAKES258 documented reports
13.7%OTHER / UNSPECIFIED248 documented reports
13.2%FUEL SYSTEM167 documented reports
8.9%GASOLINE165 documented reports
8.8%POWER TRAIN137 documented reports
7.3%VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL111 documented reports
5.9%Show all 33 reported components
AIR BAGS60 documented reports
3.2%STEERING60 documented reports
3.2%STRUCTURE57 documented reports
3.0%LANE DEPARTURE55 documented reports
2.9%BACK OVER PREVENTION31 documented reports
1.7%SEAT BELTS30 documented reports
1.6%ENGINE / ENGINE COOLING27 documented reports
1.4%VISIBILITY/WIPER25 documented reports
1.3%ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)25 documented reports
1.3%EXTERIOR LIGHTING24 documented reports
1.3%SUSPENSION15 documented reports
0.8%WHEELS13 documented reports
0.7%VISIBILITY9 documented reports
0.5%HYDRAULIC7 documented reports
0.4%SEATS6 documented reports
0.3%TIRES4 documented reports
0.2%PARKING BRAKE4 documented reports
0.2%DIESEL2 documented reports
0.1%AIR2 documented reports
0.1%EQUIPMENT2 documented reports
0.1%EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY1 documented reports
0.1%TRACTION CONTROL SYSTEM1 documented reports
0.1%LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES1 documented reports
0.1%What the data says
ENGINE is the most frequently classified component, appearing in 29.5% of complaint reports in this dataset. This 2018 HONDA ACCORD has 1,877 complaint reports in the records we have processed. One report can be classified under more than one component, so component shares do not add up to 100%.
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