2000 Honda Accord defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2000 Honda Accord. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• SRS READINESS INDICATOR ILLUMINATION
  Preliminary Evaluation PE05043 · opened Aug 12, 2005 · closed Mar 24, 2006

  The subject vehicles are designed with an occupant position detection system (opds) for the passenger seat to suppress the side airbag in the event of an out-of-position occupant.on some vehicles, the opds unit and sensor grid may be susceptible to high moisture content and/or to sporadic electrical interference that w…

• IGNITION-PARK INTERLOCK
  Preliminary Evaluation PE05002 · opened Jan 13, 2005 · closed Feb 2, 2005 · led to recall 05V025000

  The above failure report counts are for model year (my) 1999 - 2001 honda accord models that were not within the scope of a related honda recall action (nhtsa 03v423); these vehicles were investigated by odi under defect petition (dp) 04-006.complaint information for other models and model years was not obtained by odi…

• IGNITION-PARK INTERLOCK
  Defect Petition DP04006 · opened Oct 8, 2004 · closed Jan 13, 2005

  The office of defects investigation (odi) produced an information request (ir) letter dated october 14, 2004 which defined the subject vehicles as model year 1999 - 2001 honda accord vehicles which were not within the scope of prior recall action (03v423) honda conducted to resolve an interlock defect.honda submitted r…

• IGNITION-PARK INTERLOCK
  Engineering Analysis EA03017 · opened Sep 9, 2003 · closed Dec 17, 2003 · led to recall 03V423000

  Six of the odi complaints are duplicative of honda complaints, as well as four of the crashes.the one injury occurred when a rollaway vehicle struck the exiting operator who had inadvertently parked the vehicle in an unsecured state (not in park, brake not engaged).honda identified the warranty claims from complaint de…

• SEAT FRAME BRACKET FAILURE
  Preliminary Evaluation PE02072 · opened Oct 2, 2002 · closed Mar 28, 2003

  This pe was opened based on 10 consumer complaints in the odi database alleging that the power assisted seats were failing in certain 1998-2002 honda accord vehicles.failures are concentrated in the 1998-99 model year vehicles.the bracket that attaches the seat bottom to the seat base is fracturing due to: 1-the weld c…