NHTSA Safety Recalls
2009 Honda Accord Recalls
The 2009 Honda Accord has 11 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on June 27, 2019.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2009 Honda Accord. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 11
- Owner complaints
- 727
- Crashes reported
- 49
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
5 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2009 Honda Accord, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
11 recalls on the 2009 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 2008, 2010–2012 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 2008, 2010–2012 Accord, 12 other models
Air bags: frontal: driver side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 19V182000
- Reported
- March 6, 2019
- Vehicles affected
- up to 1,101,534
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury and death
- Same campaign
- also 2001–2007 Accord, 16 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 2003–2008, 2010–2012 Accord, 9 other models
Air bags: frontal: passenger side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 18V042000
- Reported
- January 9, 2018
- Vehicles affected
- up to 691,726
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury and death
- Same campaign
- also 2010–2012 Accord, 11 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 2008, 2010–2012 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 2008, 2010–2012 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 2008, 2010–2011 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 2008, 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 2005–2008, 2010 Accord, 2 other models
Equipment
- Campaign
- 09E063000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2008, 2010 Accord
2009 Honda Accord complaints by year
NHTSA has received 727 owner complaints about the 2009 Honda Accord, the newest on October 19, 2026. Of these, 49 describe a crash (7%) and 5 a fire; owners reported 51 injuries and 2 deaths.
In complaints about the 2009 Honda Accord, the component group named most often is the service brakes, hydraulic (22%), followed by the air bags (20%) and the engine (15%).
9 of the 2009 Honda Accord's 11 recalls also concern the air bags.
Where 2009 Honda Accord owners gave the mileage (516 complaints), the median was 32,900 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Service Brakes, Hydraulic160
- Air Bags144
- Engine111
- Service Brakes51
- Electrical System44
- Unknown Or Other38
Complaints received, by year
| 2008 | 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 93 | |
| 2010 | 122 | |
| 2011 | 53 | |
| 2012 | 48 | |
| 2013 | 51 | |
| 2014 | 46 | |
| 2015 | 41 | |
| 2016 | 78 | |
| 2017 | 64 | |
| 2018 | 36 | |
| 2019 | 24 | |
| 2020 | 14 | |
| 2021 | 8 | |
| 2022 | 11 | |
| 2023 | 9 | |
| 2024 | 7 | |
| 2025 | 9 | |
| 2026 | 9 |
Complaints about the 2009 Honda Accord peaked in 2010, when NHTSA received 122. 44% arrived between 2008 and 2012, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2009 vehicles, the 2009 Honda Accord drew 2.7× the complaints of the median Honda Accord year in the same window: 2nd highest of the 23 ranked years.
That makes 2009 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 727 complaints about the 2009 Honda Accord are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Honda Accord by model year
Other 2009 Honda models
Newest record on this page: October 19, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted