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2004 HONDA ACCORD — Complaint #536148

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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DRUM filed May 21, 2005

NHTSA complaint #536148 (ODI reference 10121791) concerns a 2004 HONDA ACCORD and was filed on May 21, 2005. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 9, 2005. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:drum, 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 service brakes, air:drum 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.

Vehicle
2004 HONDA ACCORD
Component
SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DRUM
State
Maryland

Complaint Description

CONSTANT BRAKING AND STEERING VIBRATION AT SPEED 60-70 MPH. CAR HAS BEEN IN THE SHOP 7 TIMES SINCE DEC. 2004. DEALER IS UNABLE TO FIX THE PROBLEM. AMERICAN HONDA STATES THAT ABOVE DESCRIBED CONDITION IS NORMAL FOR ALL 2004 ACCORDS LX COUPES. INFO PROVIDED BY PATRICIA EVANS, AMERICAN HONDA CORP. CASE MANAGER. CASE NUMBER N012005-05-1001024. CONSIDERING INITIATION OF ANTI-LEMON LITIGATION.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 536148
ODI Number 10121791
Date Filed May 21, 2005
Failure Date April 9, 2005
VIN 1HGCM72204A

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.