Other electrical problem on the 2001 Honda Accord
2 crashes 2 fires 1 injury 5 of the 34 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other electrical problem gets reported
Owners of the 2001 Honda Accord report other electrical problem at a median of 130,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 60,000 miles and a quarter after 170,000 miles, from 20 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 85,000 miles. It is the 7th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 35,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 185,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 150,707 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
15% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33,893 miles | 58,123 miles | 129,500 miles | 171,359 miles | 184,600 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 2 a crash, 2 a fire and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $250–$2,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 30 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 2,400 miles, and latest on the 2022 at 200,000 miles.
By volume the 2013 carries the most reports, with 210; the 2001 has 34. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
When consumer placed the gear into drive, the vehicle lurched forward slowly, and then the alarm system went off and all dashboard lights started blinking erratically. Dealer advised the the cold weather caused the computer to enter fail safe mode. Ts *tt jb
Defect in the ignition to transmission interlock allowing key to be removed while in drive. This is a very dangerous condition if you are not careful. This has been this way at least for 15000 miles. I took it to the dealer and he said he could replace the switch but I would then have a key for the ignition and a key for the door locks. I told them if they could not key the switch that I would not accept two different keys. It now has 57000 miles on it. *la
My 2001 honda accord 2 door coupe ex v-6 is experiencing the same problem as the newly announced recall. The car can be turned off and the ignition key removed while the shift lever is in drive. My wife did remove turn off the ignition and remove the key while the car was in drive. She then locked the car and went into the house. A few moments later I arrived home and the car had rolled out of the driveway and across the street and had come to rest with both rear tires up against the curb. It is just lucky there was no car parked where this car came to rest. It is just as lucky there were no cars coming by when this incident occurred as we live on a very busy street. *la
Also reported on the 2001 Honda Accord
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
Other powertrain problem
Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure
Complete transmission failure
Other speed control problem
Airbag failed to deploy in a crash
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 34 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other electrical problem happen on the 2001 Honda Accord?
Across 20 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 130,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 60,000 miles and a quarter after 170,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other electrical problem on the 2001 Honda Accord?
34 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.3 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed