Other visibility problem on the 2006 Honda Accord
1 crash 1 of the 16 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 visibility problem gets reported
Owners of the 2006 Honda Accord report other visibility problem at a median of 5,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 700 miles and a quarter after 80,000 miles, from 12 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 75,000 miles. It is the 10th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 100 miles at the tenth percentile to 115,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 115,725 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
67% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 miles | 700 miles | 6,250 miles | 79,500 miles | 115,800 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, 1 a crash is 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 $150–$1,400 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 27 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2021, at a median of 100 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 120,000 miles.
By volume the 2013 carries the most reports, with 33; the 2006 has 16. 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.
Purchased a 2006 honda accord coupe on march 15th 2006, was traveling no the highway with no vehicle in the front of me and on march the 17th two days after purchased my sun roof shattered. Talked to the dealership, manufacturer and their reply was its not a manufacturer defect therefore its nothing they can do. I had to pay $602.00 at another honda dealership out of town for the sun roof to be replaced. *nm
During hot weather the mirror section of the inside rear view mirror became loose and began to vibrate, I pushed on the mirror section and it moved back and forth in the plastic housing. It became very distracting while driving, and also the vehicles I could see in the rear view mirror were distorted and not clearly seen. I told the dealer, they in turn called the engineers, who told my service department that they know about the problem, to fix the problem the dealer said they have to install some spacing material to stop the mirror from vibrating. The engineers said heat cause the spacer holding the mirror expands due to excessive heat. *jb
Passenger outside mirror exploded while I was driving down the road. If the passenger window had been down it would have hit my daughter in her head. When the incident happened I stopped the car and picked up the mirror, there was no other cars or nothing around that could have hit the mirror, it made a very load noise but no other damage was done other than mirror came flying into in the side window and then hit the ground. All other parts on the mirror are in place and fine, only the center mirror parts fell off the car. I took it back to honda to tell them the mirror fell out and the service manager left me standing there and didn't come back, he never got my name. I asked the desk boy where he had gone and he paged him and the said that he would call me, he didn't know who I was, my name or who the owner of the car was so how is he going to call me. Brand new, only had the car 2 weeks. *jb
Also reported on the 2006 Honda Accord
Other steering problem
Other electrical problem
Other brake problem
Other powertrain problem
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
Other body or interior problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 16 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 visibility problem happen on the 2006 Honda Accord?
Across 12 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 5,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 700 miles and a quarter after 80,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other visibility problem on the 2006 Honda Accord?
16 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 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