Ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure on the 2014 Honda Accord
When ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure gets reported
Owners of the 2014 Honda Accord report ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure at a median of 45,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 30,000 miles and a quarter after 65,000 miles, from 13 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 85,000 miles. It is the 17th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 20,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 85,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 64,692 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.
38% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19,400 miles | 29,984 miles | 47,000 miles | 64,000 miles | 84,092 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
Putting it right typically runs $250–$1,500 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 21 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2018, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 1996 at 195,000 miles.
By volume the 1999 carries the most reports, with 243; the 2014 has 19. 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 trying to start my 2014 honda accord lx, I have to attempt it several times turning the ignition switch back and forth before it will start. Sometimes it starts right away, sometimes it takes 16 times! I took the honda to the holler honda dealership (which is the only place I take it to for service since I bought it) and they are stating it's a "starter issue" and that it's not covered under the "power train" warranty and that I would have to pay $495 for a new starter, plus $200 labor. The car being so new does not have "after market" parts and so I would have to buy it new. My last honda accord ex v6 2005 model didn't have its starter replaced until july 2012. So I know that this is clearly a defect and this is not normal!!! I've even researched the life of an average starter and most of them are at 100k miles or 5 years. So I know honda has to help me with this! I've been calling honda motor corporation in california (michael) and the holler honda dealership in orlando (maggie nero - service manager) and both of them have been dragging their feet with this. Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated!
The vehicle is able to be turned off with out putting in park. It is an automatic with push button start. When stopping at an arrived location you are able to push the button to turn off your vehicle with out putting it in park which then disengages the gears. If you happen to forget to put it in park and shut the car off in drive when you get out, the vehicle will roll away. Any other push button start vehicle I have used would not allow you to shut the engine down until it was placed in park. Roll away issues should and could be easily fixed.
Two times while driving tonight I tried to adjust the heat but accidentally hit the ignition switch that killed the engine. In order to start you must be in park so you must stop the vehicle before restarting. This happened in a small town with light traffic. If this happened in high speed heavy traffic this situation could cause an accident for the driver or other drivers. A recall should make it impossible to shut the engine off until the car is stopped.
Also reported on the 2014 Honda Accord
Other electrical problem
No-start or intermittent start failure
ABS module or sensor failure
Other engine problem
Other steering problem
Other body or interior problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 19 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 ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure happen on the 2014 Honda Accord?
Across 13 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 45,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 30,000 miles and a quarter after 65,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure on the 2014 Honda Accord?
19 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