10.0

really awful
Crashes / Fires:
10 / 2
Injuries / Deaths:
6 / 0
Average Mileage:
7,318 miles

About These NHTSA Complaints:

This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.

So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.

2018 Honda Accord electrical problems

electrical problem

Find something helpful? Spread the word.
Get notified about new defects, investigations, recalls & lawsuits for the 2018 Honda Accord:

Unsubscribe any time. We don't sell/share your email.

2018 Honda Accord Owner Comments (Page 7 of 10)

« Read the previous 20 complaints

problem #76

Jan 032021

Accord

  • 28,000 miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

The ads breaking error comes on and the car won't start- this is the 3rd time and is a constant problem for this year- the steering wheel locks up this is very dangerous. This has happened moving and stationary. Honda says it is a simple error my car has less that 30K miles N this is a constant issue

- Newnan, GA, USA

problem #75

May 072020

Accord

  • 20,700 miles
This is a complaint for a unique occurrence of this problem on this date. In some instances, it seems that the ventilation system is potentially pulling noxious fumes in from the engine bay and in others, there seems to be an issue with moisture retention when ac is run. The vehicle seems to force foul smelling air in to the cab. Honda has failed to properly troubleshoot the issue (I.e. retain the vehicle for more than a few hours and try to understand if there is an issue with the ventilation system or something else).

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #74

Mar 092020

Accord

  • 17,000 miles
This is a complaint for a unique occurrence of this problem on this date. In some instances, it seems that the ventilation system is potentially pulling noxious fumes in from the engine bay and in others, there seems to be an issue with moisture retention when ac is run. The vehicle seems to force foul smelling air in to the cab. Honda has failed to properly troubleshoot the issue (I.e. retain the vehicle for more than a few hours and try to understand if there is an issue with the ventilation system or something else).

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #73

Mar 022020

Accord

  • 17,000 miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

This is a complaint for a unique occurrence of this problem on this date. In some instances, it seems that the ventilation system is potentially pulling noxious fumes in from the engine bay and in others, there seems to be an issue with moisture retention when ac is run. The vehicle seems to force foul smelling air in to the cab. Honda has failed to properly troubleshoot the issue (I.e. retain the vehicle for more than a few hours and try to understand if there is an issue with the ventilation system or something else).

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #72

May 032020

Accord

  • 20,000 miles
This is a complaint for a unique occurrence of this problem on this date. In some instances, it seems that the ventilation system is potentially pulling noxious fumes in from the engine bay and in others, there seems to be an issue with moisture retention when ac is run. The vehicle seems to force foul smelling air in to the cab. Honda has failed to properly troubleshoot the issue (I.e. retain the vehicle for more than a few hours and try to understand if there is an issue with the ventilation system or something else).

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #71

Mar 162020

Accord

  • 17,000 miles
This is a complaint for a unique occurrence of this problem on this date. In some instances, it seems that the ventilation system is potentially pulling noxious fumes in from the engine bay and in others, there seems to be an issue with moisture retention when ac is run. The vehicle seems to force foul smelling air in to the cab. Honda has failed to properly troubleshoot the issue (I.e. retain the vehicle for more than a few hours and try to understand if there is an issue with the ventilation system or something else).

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #70

May 042020

Accord

  • miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

The infotainment unit in the 2018 Honda Accord early on exhibited a number of issues, one of them being, poor connectivity via bluetooth. In this instance, the vehicle was showing the battery status of the connected device and claimed that there is one connected, but, at the same time, was indicated that no device is connected. See the attached picture.

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #69

Dec 212020

Accord

  • 27,500 miles
A few months after buying the 2018 Accord, Honda had to put a software update, which they claimed was going to address and issue with the back-up camera (which always seemed to work fine, at least on my car). Shortly after the update, the infotainment unit had started to randomly (and rather frequently) reset itself every few day. Honda (after some trips to the dealer and several attempts to reach out to the Honda of America hq) had failed to acknowledge the issue and, eventually, begrudgingly had admitted to the problem; however, they had failed to produce a fix for months. My vehicle still does not have a fix applied and keeps having resets. I have spoken with a 2018 Honda Odyssey (which uses the same system), who finally gave up and got rid of the vehicle due to the number of recalls (and, to some extent, very poor handling of the issues by Honda dealer(s) and Honda), but they had to have their unit physically replaced. Supposedly, there now a recall, but you have to take the vehicle to the dealer (surprise, not). As it stands, Honda may have used a piece of hw which has a built-in failure (this could be more insidious than just a sw fix) and is refusing to address it in hundreds of thousands of vehicles. Why can't this be done via a 'simple' sw update the way 21st century car-makers do" or is Honda simply hiding an inevitable failure via sw update" on the noted date, this was yet another reset of the unit. The vehicle now has about 27,500 miles, but has exhibited this behavior for thousands of miles/over a year.

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #68

Dec 152020

Accord

  • miles
The infotainment unit in the 2018 Honda Accord early on exhibited a number of issues, one of them being, poor connectivity via bluetooth. In this instance, while the device was disconnected intentionally, the infotainment unit failed to retain the device's information and failed to reconnect upon a manually-initiated request from the device later.

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #67

Nov 182020

Accord

  • miles
The infotainment unit in the 2018 Honda Accord early on exhibited a number of issues, one of them being, poor connectivity via bluetooth. In this instance, the vehicle was showing wrong battery status for the connected device.

- Lakewood, CO, USA

problem #66

Dec 142020

Accord

  • 35,900 miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

The 2018 Honda Accord hybrid's active noise canceling (anc) system is flawed. The car howls, roars and can even produce a loud boom at certain conditions (ie. Light acceleration, engine rpms ~2250, colder temps (<50degf), starting @ 30+mph but worst is @ ~52mph). I took the car into my local Honda dealer who confirmed the problem. However, after they checked the internal car microphones were ok (per a Honda service bulletin test, ...so Honda America knows there is a problem), they stopped work and told me Honda corporate won't let them replace the anc, because apparently the technician's audio recording of the problem in my car wasn't sufficiently adequate. Note: I find this problem is repeatedly discussed on the various 2018-20 Honda Accord hybrid forums with many frustrated owners. Like many on the forums, I asked (and paid for) the Honda technician to disconnect the anc. While the low speed road noise is much higher, the roar, howling and obnoxious boom is gone. It sure would be nice to get my quiet car back someday. Can nhsta help? note: If needed, I can upload the Honda dealer service documents wrt above, please advise, thanks

- Webster, NY, USA

problem #65

Mar 262020

Accord

  • 7 miles
Rear speakers continue to make horrible scratchy sound when driving and using audio. Speakers have already been and problem still continues. Vehicle was stationary, in motion, on a city street or a highway, turning, braking, etc.

- Riverside, CA, USA

problem #64

Nov 272020

Accord

  • 76,400 miles
My car passenger side tail gate trunk led light damaged.

- College Park, MD, USA

problem #63

Nov 022020

Accord

  • miles
I have changed two batteries since I bought it first battery that it came with completely died and couldn't even get a jump. Changed it and now I have to keep getting jump everyday. My windshield has also cracked twice from passenger side to driver side. No puncture mark indicating something hit it.

- Dallas, TX, USA

problem #62

Mar 012020

Accord

  • 4,000 miles
The seals around the doors, weather stripping is coming lose, seats are falling apart, the radio and navigation screen will go black and reboot itself. The collision control system will get you killed if you're not careful. I was getting onto the highway from a traffic light, had my turn signal on. As I'm merging onto the highway going about 50 mph, the car thinks I've fallen asleep or something. The car forcibly takes me back into the right lane and downshifts the car while braking? scared me to death. I was told it was because I didn't have a turn signal on. Luckily it was 3am or I could've been smashed. Also, the brake light will flash at times, no one is in front of you. Or it flashes like you're about to hit someone but doesn't do anything but flash. Also, if you drive any length, it system will state that the driver has low attention span. Not sure why, it's not like I'm weaving. I think the car needs to feel some movement of the steering or it thinks you're nodding off. The car salesman warned me that the new bells and whistles, technology, could have issues because the tech is new but nothing specific. Try to sell me 3800 in warranty to cover tech. Thought it was strange at the time. Now, I'm thinking that he knew specifics and didn't share.

- Independence, KY, USA

problem #61

Sep 212020

Accord

  • 25,500 miles
I was driving the other night at 9pm. Dry conditions and about 65 degrees outside. I had pulled up to a stop sign and as I came to a complete stop by car started sending me warning notices. See attached pictures. I was told I probably had bugs on one of the front sensors on the vehicle. After a good cleaning of thise areas this still didn't solve the issue. I bought this vehicle because Honda is known for it's safety but that looks like it's not the case anymore.

- West Allis, WI, USA

problem #60

Apr 012019

Accord

  • 9,000 miles
The contact owns a 2018 Honda Accord. The contact stated that he was involved in two rear end collisions and on both occasions the auto brake activated however there was a piece on the center console that had become dislodged that trapped his foot on the accelerator pedal. As a result, the contact was unable to depress the brake pedal to bring the vehicle to a stop due to his foot being trapped on the accelerator pedal. There were no injuries reported. A police report was not filed. The vehicle was able to be driven from the scene. The dealer Honda of downtown Chicago (1111 N clark St ste 2, Chicago, il 60610 (312) 766-1095) had the bumper, light and the onboard computer repaired both times. However, the issues recurred with the blind spot monitoring, the backup camera and the parking sensor on the onboard computer malfunctioning after the vehicle was repaired. The vehicle was taken back to the same dealer and all of those issues were fixed except the center console piece that keeps dislodging. The manufacturer said to take the vehicle back to the dealer to get the issue fixed. The console piece remains unfixed at this time. The failure mileage was 9,000.

- Chicago, IL, USA

problem #59

Jul 282020

Accord

  • 68,862 miles
Was driving down the road after getting coffee with active cruise control on and a message popped up saying " collision mitigation system fault" please visit dealer", I've read that it can get bug juice on it and cause it to say that but I wiped mine off and it is still saying that after I restarted the car, have read from many car groups that this happens alot with these cars.

- Gainesville, GA, USA

problem #58

Jul 092020

Accord 4-cyl

  • 33,300 miles
I RECENTLY FINANCED A VEHICLE THRU AMERICAN FINANCE CORPORATION VIA VANDERGRIFF HONDA (1104 W I-20 ; ARLINGTON, TEXAS 76017). SHORTLY AFTER PURCHASE A RECALL REPAIR WAS REQUIRED FOR MY VEHICLE. THIS WORK WAS DONE AND COMPLETED ON JUNE 30TH, 2020. I PICKED UP THE VEHICLE ON JULY 1ST, 2020 FROM THE SERVICE CENTER. ON JULY 9TH, 2020 THE VEHICLE SHUTTERED AND STALLED IN A RESIDENTIAL PARKING LOT. I PHONED HONDA ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE GIVING MY VEHICLE ID AND LOCATION, THEREAFTER A TOW TRUCK ARRIVED AND TOWED TO THE VEHICLE TO RUSTY WALLIS HONDA. I WAS CONTACTED BY [XXX] (SERVICE ADVISOR) WHO INFORMED THAT THEY HAD RECEIVED MY VEHICLE FROM OVERNIGHT AND THAT "THEY WERE ABLE TO START MY VEHICLE". SHE ALSO STATED THAT IF THE ISSUE TURNS OUT TO BE THE BATTERY, THAT VANDERGRIFF HONDA WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE SINCE THIS PURCHASE WAS WITHIN 30DAYS. THE NEXT CALL I RECEIVED I WAS INFORMED THAT ISSUE WAS NOT THE BATTERY, BUT RATHER A "GAS ISSUE". AT THAT MOMENT I INFORMED HER THAT THE RECALL REPAIR THAT WAS COMPLETED ON JUNE 30TH WAS THE "FUEL PUMP MOTOR". WITH THIS INFORMATION NOTED THAT SINCE THAT WAS A RECALL REPAIR( THE FUEL PUMP MOTOR) THAT REPAIR WAS UNDER WARRANTY AND THAT THEY WOULD UPDATE ME ON THE CONTINUING REPAIR. I WAS CONTACTED THE NEXT DAY BY AND INFORMED ME THAT A FUEL INJECTOR RAIL PART THAT WAS NEEDED IS BEING ORDERED, HOWEVER BECAUSE IT WAS SATUDAY THAT THIS PART WOULD NOT BE IN STOCK UNTIL TUEDAY JULY 14, 2020. ON JULY 15TH I CALLED INTO THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT. UPON SPEAKING TO A GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF [XXX] WHO ANSWERED THE TELEPHONE. [XXX] EXPLAINED TO ME THAT MY CAR WAS STILL DISABLED AND THAT HE WOULD LOOK INTO THIS MATTER (ASKING FOR A 30 -40 MINUTES FOR AN UPDATE FOR ME. THIS WAS 19 HOURS AGO. I WAS REACHING OUT TO THIS AGENCY TO INQUIRE OF MY OPTIONS AND RIGHTS THAT APPLY TO THIS CONTRACT. INFORMATION Redacted PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6).

- Dallas, TX, USA

problem #57

Jul 112020

Accord 4-cyl

  • 22,367 miles
Most recently, I was dropping off a friend. With my car running and in park. The dash board lit up with many warnings lka, mitigation, the brake defective.(see dealer immediately) I could not drive the car. The next morning (Sunday) back to normal. L Monday morning I'm at the Honda dealer, counting two other electrical problemsthis makes the third time they have told me they can not find codes or replicate the problem come get it. I told them I was tired of driving a dangerous and unreliable car. I bought for 40000.dec21,2017, it has223?? miles and G.M. offered ME21800. For car(without taxes)

- Gainesville, GA, USA

Read the next 20 complaints »

Not what you are looking for?