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Other speed control problem on the 2017 Honda Accord

6 crashes 3 injuries 1 death 10 of the 12 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.

Only 6 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 12
With an odometer reading 6
Reports per 1,000 built 0.3 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 83%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 10
Typical repair $250–$2,000
What it means when it happens Critical
Rank among this year's problems 21st

When other speed control problem gets reported

There are 12 reports of other speed control problem on the 2017 Honda Accord, 6 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 78,000 miles. It is the 21st most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 6 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 8,759 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, 6 a crash, 3 an injury and 1 a fatality 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.

This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 27 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2022, at a median of 1,700 miles, and latest on the 1996 at 180,000 miles.

By volume the 2003 carries the most reports, with 62; the 2017 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.

Median
  1. 1996 Honda Accord other speed control problem 178k
  2. 1997 Honda Accord other speed control problem 158k
  3. 1998 Honda Accord other speed control problem 70k
  4. 1999 Honda Accord other speed control problem 67k
  5. 2000 Honda Accord other speed control problem 54k
  6. 2001 Honda Accord other speed control problem 40k
  7. 2002 Honda Accord other speed control problem 55k
  8. 2003 Honda Accord other speed control problem 92k
  9. 2004 Honda Accord other speed control problem 45k
  10. 2005 Honda Accord other speed control problem 84k
  11. 2006 Honda Accord other speed control problem 45k
  12. 2007 Honda Accord other speed control problem 40k
  13. 2008 Honda Accord other speed control problem 39k
  14. 2009 Honda Accord other speed control problem 31k
  15. 2010 Honda Accord other speed control problem 33k
  16. 2011 Honda Accord other speed control problem 6k
  17. 2012 Honda Accord other speed control problem 22k
  18. 2013 Honda Accord other speed control problem 3k
  19. 2014 Honda Accord other speed control problem 8k
  20. 2015 Honda Accord other speed control problem 26k
  21. 2016 Honda Accord other speed control problem 11k
  22. 2017 (this one) 9k
  23. 2018 Honda Accord other speed control problem 22k
  24. 2019 Honda Accord other speed control problem 8k
  25. 2020 Honda Accord other speed control problem 7k
  26. 2021 Honda Accord other speed control problem 17k
  27. 2022 Honda Accord other speed control problem 2k
  28. 2024 Honda Accord other speed control problem
    no odometer readings given
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  29. 2025 Honda Accord other speed control problem 10k

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.

My 2017 honda accord touring has unintended breaking once the gas pedal is released, rather than slowing down to a stop it abruptly applies the breaks on its on without any car in sight (therefore it has nothing to do with safety feature) whether I am driving on a flat even surface road, up or down a hill. In order to prevent or minimize the unexpected breaking I am having to apply the gas to maintain a constant velocity before applying the brakes. Even if I am going 40,30, 25 mphs and I apply the brakes to gradually come to a stop the car is still stopping abruptly on its own with its unannounced braking as it goes from 40 to 30 and so forth and overriding my application off applying the brakes. And to be clear it has nothing to do with the level of pressure applied or not applied on the brakes, etc. There is also a noise that I have picked up each time it brakes. Not to mention that I have also driven a similar year make and model of the new car I purchased and this did not occur, so it's definitely an issue with my car (whether its software related, etc.). In addition to this I have noticed that the rpms when the car is idling…

5,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1381725 filed 2017-06-01

Also reported on the 2017 Honda Accord

Other electrical problem

58 reports median 38k

Backup camera failure

44 reports median 30k

Fuel pump failure

39 reports median 43k

Other wheel or tire problem

39 reports median 15k

Other engine problem

36 reports median 34k

Lane keep or steering assist fault

30 reports median 106k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 12 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 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 speed control problem happen on the 2017 Honda Accord?

Across 6 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 10,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other speed control problem on the 2017 Honda Accord?

12 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