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The contact owns a 2018 Honda Accord. The contact stated while the vehicle was in park, when it rolled backwards and crashed into another vehicle. The contact stated no warning light was illuminated. The contact was relating this failure to NHTSA campaign number: 20V771000 (electrical system, back over prevention, visibility/wiper, visibility, exterior lighting). The vehicle was taken to Honda of columbia (4333 sunset blvd, lexington, SC 29072) where the recall was serviced. The vehicle had been repaired. The manufacturer had been informed of the failure and informed the contact that the failure was not related to the recall. The failure mileage was approximately 6,200.
Driving southbound on 101 South on sunny clear day 65 degrees with almost full fuel tank and 2 battery bars (almost empty) and climbing up incline on 7 degree grade and check engine light went on and lost all power and car completely slowed down to a stop (luckily was able to pull over with no problem).
I was driving on the highway at about 65 miles/hour when I began to hear a hissing sound coming from the left most air vent. Within seconds, a strong electrical or burning rubber smell began to fill the cabin. The hissing sound eventually subsided. Shortly thereafter, white smoke began to come through the air vents. The smoke lasted for about 45-60 seconds. First thing the next morning, I took the vehicle to my local Honda dealer to have the issue fixed under warranty. They had the vehicle for 4 working days but could not find anything wrong with it, and instructed me to bring the vehicle back to them if it happens again. They did say that the car had a code for a "fault in the blower motor circuit", but said that that was probably nothing to worry about. As of March 4th 2021, this issue has not reappeared since the initial occurrence.
Problems with the front windows having issues with winding up or down and even moving out of chanel. Problems with the accs, lks due to malfunctioning camera which I had to replace however the dealer in jamaica will not reprogramme
Car intermittently flashes all the cmbs lights and applies break on its own without any vehicle in front of the car. Honda dealership charged to diagnose a replace break switch. Problem still persist. Countless others are having same issue and reporting online forums and youtube. I almost got rearended multiple times due to this. Also when these lights come acive, drl sometimes do not work and reverse camera do not work. First happened June 2020(after issue, it allows the car to start without pressing break pedal), continues to happen often. Disconnecting the battery and reconnecting removes the issue for sometime then comes back few days to weeks/months later.
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
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This is a leased 2018 Honda Accord, the vehicle has 8000 miles on it. The safety problem on this vehicle is that the electric system has shorted 5 batteries and has left me stranded in various locations, lending to unsafe conditions. The Honda dealer has replaced 5 batteries on my vehicle and now my car has broken-down again making it six shorted batteries on a vehicle that barely has 8K miles. When I talked to kyle lampp, assistant service manager at brandon Honda, he stated Honda Corp. Knows about the electric problems and they are unwilling to address it because of cost. Below are the dates of service repairs with included invoice numbers: 8/21/19 service# 514010 11/13/19 service# 531130 1/22/20 service# 544284 8/16/20 service#578092 11/19/20 service# 594896
The Honda infotainment system would freeze and crash while the vehicle is in operation. The infotainment system is used as a navigation system, radio, backup camera and sets various settings for the car. When this defective infotainment system crashes, it causes the driver to think something bad is happening to the car and driver will be very distracted.
Very loud roaring noise when driving about 52-54mph (and intermittently at other speeds). This not engine noise, but seems to a glitch in the automatic noise cancelling system that causes a feedback loop resulting in an alarming roaring sound that can cause driver to panic or otherwise be distracted from driving safely.
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
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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- Columbia, SC, USA