Other visibility problem on the 2014 Honda Accord
When other visibility problem gets reported
Owners of the 2014 Honda Accord report other visibility problem at a median of 10,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 600 miles and a quarter after 25,000 miles, from 10 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 75,000 miles. It is the 24th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 100 miles at the tenth percentile to 45,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 45,605 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A window that narrow is the signature of a part that fails on its own schedule rather than on how the car is driven — which is usually a design or supplier problem rather than wear and tear.
80% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 144 miles | 550 miles | 7,920 miles | 26,750 miles | 45,749 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 $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 2014 has 12. 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.
It was a cold day with wind chilled down to single digits. I took something out from the trunk, got into my car and closed the door. Then I notice that the rear passenger side window glass has been broken into tiny pieces. The whole glass was gone, with half landed inside the car and half outside. The car was parked at the time and there was no one around and nothing that I know of had hit the car door window. The glass just spontaneously shattered. *tr
Tl* the contact owns a 2014 honda accord. The contact stated that while driving approximately 5 MPH, the headlights from another vehicle vehicle caused a reflective glare to the e driver's side view mirror, obstructing the driver's visibility of the roadway. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the problem. The approximate failure mileage was 150. Updated 03/31/14*lj
Tl* the contact owns a 2014 honda accord. The contact stated that the gear shifter had a chrome covering and when the sun shined directly on it, it would blind the contact. The contact also stated that she saw white spots and was unable to view what was in front of her. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the problem. The approximate failure mileage was 9,540.
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 12 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 2014 Honda Accord?
Across 10 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 10,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 600 miles and a quarter after 25,000 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 2014 Honda Accord?
12 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.0 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