2004 HONDA ACCORD — Complaint #512046
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION filed December 14, 2004
NHTSA complaint #512046 (ODI reference 10103152) concerns a 2004 HONDA ACCORD and was filed on December 14, 2004. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 1, 2004. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:ignition, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same HONDA ACCORD cohort independently describe similar electrical system:ignition failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2004 HONDA ACCORD shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
NUMEROUS PROBLEMS, BRAKING SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION, PROBLEM STARTING THE CAR. RECALL NOTICE FOR A PART TO BE CHANGED IN THE TRANSMISSION. *BF CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER : 04V176000 GEAR FAILURE COULD RESULT IN TRANSMISSION LOCKUP, WHICH COULD RESULT IN A CRASH. THE CONSUMER STATED THAT UNDERNEATH THE CAR SOUNDS LIKE IT GOING TO FALL APART. THE VEHICLE SWAYS WHILE BEING DRIVEN. *TC
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 512046 |
| ODI Number | 10103152 |
| Date Filed | December 14, 2004 |
| Failure Date | November 1, 2004 |
| VIN | 1HGCM66524A |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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