1992 Honda Prelude problems
Owners have filed 26 complaints with NHTSA about the 1992 Honda Prelude. Air bags is the most reported problem area, at 31% of complaints. Next are electrical system (19%) and tires (15%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 26 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 31% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 7 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 3 and 0
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%.
What the data shows
Safety-related details: 7 complaints mention a crash; 3 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 91% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1992 ranks 5th most-complained-about out of 5 model years of the Honda Prelude with enough data (7 complaints in that window).
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.
This car is completely totaled! It is smashed all in the front, the back is in the front seat and down to the ground...and the driver side is caved in also, and this airbag could have prevented the head injury, and bruising down by the steering wheel. But the airbag failed !!!!
Failure on the accelerator, consumer applied force to the accelerator pedal and the vehicle surged, causing the consumer to have an accident.
While at a stop, the vehicle experienced a frontal collision at the driver's side bumper in which the other vehicle was going about 50MPH, the driver's side airbag did not deploy.
My ignition switch just started not to long ago to fail on me. Started having problems like a week ago noticing my dashboard lights flickering. I checked my fuses and they were all ok. Two days later my car turned on and turned off when I went to start it. Tried to start it again and kept running. For five days everything was okay but just noticed that my lights were still kind of flickering (dash). Two days ago it didn't want to stay on.
I have a recently acquired 1992 honda prelude with toyo tires on it. The car is not being driven and except for two trips to mvd to get it registered it remains parked in my driveway. Three weeks ago the right rear tire apparently explode and the treads were separated from the tire casing. Two days ago I heard an explosion and found that the tire had exploded and was completely flat. This is the first time I have ever heard of a tire failing when the car was parked.