2005 Honda Accord — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 880 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Air bags (restraint system)214 (24.3%)Official recall records for this system: 79, covering model years 1995–2022.
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)114 (13.0%)Official recall records for this system: 15, covering model years 1998–2015.
• Electrical system96 (10.9%)Official recall records for this system: 14, covering model years 1995–2020.
• Speed control & accelerator58 (6.6%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2003–2007.
• Brakes50 (5.7%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2022.
• Engine49 (5.6%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2002–2015.

Other / uncategorized: 35 classifications (4.0%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (45,920 records, model years 1995–2026) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, air bags (restraint system) and powertrain (transmission & drivetrain).
• Safety recalls (425 records, model years 1995–2024) are most frequently classified under: air bags (restraint system), lights and electrical system.
• Transport Canada recalls (186 records, model years 1995–2024) are most frequently classified under: air bags (restraint system), fuel system and powertrain (transmission & drivetrain).
• Manufacturer communications (6,760 records, model years 1995–2026) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, engine and equipment & accessories.
• Investigations (106 records, model years 1995–2024) are most frequently classified under: air bags (restraint system), electrical system and steering.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 505reports included a mileage
• 83,806average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 1995 638 records for 1995 638
2. 1996 558 records for 1996 558
3. 1997 552 records for 1997 552
4. 1998 1,482 records for 1998 1,482
5. 1999 1,387 records for 1999 1,387
6. 2000 1,467 records for 2000 1,467
7. 2001 1,235 records for 2001 1,235
8. 2002 1,277 records for 2002 1,277
9. 2003 2,409 records for 2003 2,409
10. 2004 1,349 records for 2004 1,349
11. 2005 881 records for 2005 881
12. 2006 555 records for 2006 555
13. 2007 628 records for 2007 628
14. 2008 1,646 records for 2008 1,646
15. 2009 840 records for 2009 840
16. 2010 775 records for 2010 775
17. 2011 397 records for 2011 397
18. 2012 443 records for 2012 443
19. 2013 1,606 records for 2013 1,606
20. 2014 1,153 records for 2014 1,153
21. 2015 778 records for 2015 778
22. 2016 777 records for 2016 777
23. 2017 631 records for 2017 631
24. 2018 2,182 records for 2018 2,182
25. 2019 984 records for 2019 984
26. 2020 616 records for 2020 616
27. 2021 369 records for 2021 369
28. 2022 305 records for 2022 305
29. 2023 167 records for 2023 167
30. 2024 212 records for 2024 212
31. 2025 117 records for 2025 117
32. 2026 14 records for 2026 14

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 92mention a crash
• 11mention a fire
• 92mention an injury
• 3mention a fatality

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 24
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 187
• Investigations NHTSA 4
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 10
• Owner complaints NHTSA 656

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0973 in 2 records
• P1298 in 2 records
• P0301 in 1 record
• P0305 in 1 record
• P2646 in 1 record
• P2651 in 1 record

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.