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Airbag · 2 owner reports

Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault on the 2016 Honda Accord

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 2
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $300–$1,600
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 45th

When airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault gets reported

There are 2 reports of airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault on the 2016 Honda Accord. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 45th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $300–$1,600 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 20 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2013, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 1998 at 130,000 miles.

By volume the 2000 carries the most reports, with 222; the 2016 has 0. 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.

Median
  1. 1996 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 112k
  2. 1997 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 85k
  3. 1998 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 132k
  4. 1999 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 100k
  5. 2000 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 79k
  6. 2001 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 87k
  7. 2002 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 92k
  8. 2003 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 95k
  9. 2004 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 72k
  10. 2005 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 83k
  11. 2006 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 106k
  12. 2007 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 103k
  13. 2008 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 77k
  14. 2009 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 98k
  15. 2010 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 45k
  16. 2011 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 75k
  17. 2012 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 100k
  18. 2013 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 5k
  19. 2014 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
    no odometer readings given
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  20. 2016 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  21. 2017 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
    no odometer readings given
    —
  22. 2018 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 95k
  23. 2019 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
    no odometer readings given
    —
  24. 2020 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
    no odometer readings given
    —
  25. 2021 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault 128k
  26. 2025 Honda Accord airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
    no odometer readings given
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Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2016 Honda Accord

Other electrical problem

77 reports median 37k

Other lighting problem

75 reports median 41k

Headlight failure or clouding

60 reports median 40k

Other engine problem

31 reports median 37k

Other body or interior problem

30 reports median 9k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 2 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 2 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.

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