CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2013-2014 Honda Accord is showing signs of an electrical problem with the starter failing soon after the 36K mile warranty expires. It's compounded by reports that the OEM battery doesn't have sufficient amps to start the V6 reliably after a year or two.
For now we are rating this problem with the "Beware" seal because it's occurring so soon after the 36K mile warranty expires. The upshot is when your Accord won't start, that's never good, but especially bad when it's just a few years old.
Also once again, owners are complaining that the 2013 Honda Accord seats are uncomfortable. Uncomfortable seats has been a significant complaint with the Accord since the 2008 model year.
I had my 2013 Honda Accord Sport for 7 months when I all of a sudden I heard this horrible repetitive clicking sound coming from the engine. I took it into the Honda shop and first they tried to tell me it had to do with the oil change that I recently had done to my car, since it was not done at their shop, but it is a trustworthy place I have been taking all of my car to for years, so I know it was not from that. Than I was told it sounds like something from the upper engine. My car was in the shop for almost 2 weeks without any answer to what the problem was. I was given a loaner car but it upset me that no one was able to answer me as to what the problem was. Each time I called they said that the engine was taking apart but when they put the engine back together again, they still heard the same sound.
Yesterday, the official 2 week period, my husband called and told them that if they don't have an answer for me that I am going into the shop and requesting a new car. That evening I received a phone call from the service rep and I was told the belt inside the engine got stretched and that is what the sound was coming from. I don't understand why it took them so long to figure it out.
Has anyone that has a 2013 Honda Accord with 4,000 miles ever heard of the belt stretching out? This does not seem like something that should happen and I am concerned about problems arising with this in the future.
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I had my 2013 Honda Accord Sport for 7 months when I all of a sudden I heard this horrible repetitive clicking sound coming from the engine. I took it into the Honda shop and first they tried to tell me it had to do with the oil change that I recently had done to my car, since it was not done at their shop, but it is a trustworthy place I have been taking all of my car to for years, so I know it was not from that. Than I was told it sounds like something from the upper engine. My car was in the shop for almost 2 weeks without any answer to what the problem was. I was given a loaner car but it upset me that no one was able to answer me as to what the problem was. Each time I called they said that the engine was taking apart but when they put the engine back together again, they still heard the same sound.
Yesterday, the official 2 week period, my husband called and told them that if they don't have an answer for me that I am going into the shop and requesting a new car. That evening I received a phone call from the service rep and I was told the belt inside the engine got stretched and that is what the sound was coming from. I don't understand why it took them so long to figure it out.
Has anyone that has a 2013 Honda Accord with 4,000 miles ever heard of the belt stretching out? This does not seem like something that should happen and I am concerned about problems arising with this in the future.
- debbiebavv, Bronx, NY, US