2020 Honda Accord Hybrid problems
The 2020 Honda Accord Hybrid has 63 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (17%) concerns electrical system. After that come forward collision avoidance (16%) and brakes (8%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 63 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Electrical system 18% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 4 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 3 and 2
- Typical mileage
- 3,000 miles 24 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 21 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 0 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 3 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 0 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 0 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 0 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 0 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 0 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 0 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Among the 24 complaints that report mileage, the typical (median) problem appeared at about 3,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 4 complaints mention a crash; 3 injuries reported; 2 deaths reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2020 ranks 7th most-complained-about out of 12 model years of the Honda Accord Hybrid with enough data (62 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 5 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
The contact's client owns a 2020 Honda Accord. The contact stated that while his client was driving at about 45 MPH, the vehicle inadvertently accelerated on his own, drove off the road and drove down in a steep embankment, hit 8-9 fence posts, ramped up over the driveway of the embankment, and crashed into a tree. The contact did not know whether the air bags deployed. The contact's client sustained severe injuries including broken bones.
Car with less than 8000 miles had complete failure of brakes going through a stop sign on a city street (25 miles an hour) and caused a crash that totaled the car. Shortly before the crash the brakes seemed harder to stop at previous stop but still worked.
This vehicle when driving at normal speeds tends to make a high accelerating notices, it makes a person feel as if some other vehicle was passing on the left side at a very high speed. The first time I heard this noise, I moved to the right side of the road, thinking that a speeding driver was passing me. Since then, the vehicle continues to make this accelerating noise, six to seven times on a average of a thirty mile trip. I feet that this is not normal for a vehicle that is less than a year old.
Tl* the contact owns a 2020 honda accord hybrid. The contact stated while driving 55 MPH, the contact stated that an acoustically driven drone sound was coming from front driver's side of the vehicle. The contact stated that the sound became loud enough preventing communication between the vehicle passengers. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was informed of failure. The contact had not yet received a response from the manufacturer. The failure mileage was approximately 8,000.