NHTSA Safety Recalls
2008 Honda Accord Recalls
The 2008 Honda Accord has 9 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on June 27, 2019.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2008 Honda Accord. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 9
- Owner complaints
- 1,521
- Crashes reported
- 62
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
13 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2008 Honda Accord, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
9 recalls on the 2008 Honda Accord
Air bags: frontal: passenger side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 19V502000
- Reported
- June 27, 2019
- Vehicles affected
- up to 9,555
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury and death
- Same campaign
- also 2009–2012 Accord, 11 other models
Air bags: frontal: passenger side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 19V378000
- Reported
- May 16, 2019
- Vehicles affected
- up to 19,138
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2009–2012 Accord, 12 other models
Air bags: frontal: passenger side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 18V268000
- Reported
- April 26, 2018
- Vehicles affected
- up to 1,335
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2003–2007, 2009–2012 Accord, 9 other models
Air bags: frontal: passenger side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 17V545000
- Reported
- August 31, 2017
- Vehicles affected
- up to 3,257
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2009–2012 Accord, 7 other models
Air bags: frontal: passenger side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 17V030000
- Reported
- January 10, 2017
- Vehicles affected
- up to 977,708
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury and death
- Same campaign
- also 2009–2012 Accord, 10 other models
Air bags: frontal: passenger side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 16V346000
- Reported
- May 24, 2016
- Vehicles affected
- up to 2,719,386
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury and death
- Same campaign
- also 2009–2011 Accord, 11 other models
Air bags
- Campaign
- 16V056000
- Reported
- February 2, 2016
- Vehicles affected
- up to 341,444
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2009–2010 Accord
Power train: automatic transmission: control module (tcm/pcm/tecm)
- Campaign
- 11V395000
- Reported
- August 4, 2011
- Vehicles affected
- up to 1,512,107
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2005–2007, 2009–2010 Accord, 2 other models
Equipment
- Campaign
- 09E063000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2009–2010 Accord
2008 Honda Accord complaints by year
NHTSA has received 1,521 owner complaints about the 2008 Honda Accord, the newest on October 21, 2026. Of these, 62 describe a crash (4%) and 13 a fire; owners reported 67 injuries and 1 death.
In complaints about the 2008 Honda Accord, the component group named most often is the service brakes, hydraulic (30%), followed by the air bags (25%) and the engine (14%).
7 of the 2008 Honda Accord's 9 recalls also concern the air bags.
Where 2008 Honda Accord owners gave the mileage (1,136 complaints), the median was 27,223 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Service Brakes, Hydraulic451
- Air Bags379
- Engine210
- Exterior Lighting113
- Electrical System105
- Power Train70
Complaints received, by year
| 2007 | 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 139 | |
| 2009 | 313 | |
| 2010 | 245 | |
| 2011 | 75 | |
| 2012 | 61 | |
| 2013 | 64 | |
| 2014 | 81 | |
| 2015 | 104 | |
| 2016 | 201 | |
| 2017 | 75 | |
| 2018 | 50 | |
| 2019 | 45 | |
| 2020 | 17 | |
| 2021 | 10 | |
| 2022 | 10 | |
| 2023 | 6 | |
| 2024 | 8 | |
| 2025 | 7 | |
| 2026 | 7 |
Complaints about the 2008 Honda Accord peaked in 2009, when NHTSA received 313. 51% arrived between 2007 and 2011, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2008 vehicles, the 2008 Honda Accord drew 4.3× the complaints of the median Honda Accord year in the same window: 1st highest of the 23 ranked years.
That makes 2008 one of the Honda Accord years to avoid by our method.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 5/5
- Side: 5/5
The 1,521 complaints about the 2008 Honda Accord are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Honda Accord by model year
Other 2008 Honda models
Newest record on this page: October 21, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted