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Overheating on the 2017 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 3
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $400–$3,500
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 43rd

When overheating gets reported

There are 3 reports of overheating on the 2017 Honda Accord. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 43rd 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 $400–$3,500 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 14 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2018, at a median of 500 miles, and latest on the 1997 at 230,000 miles.

By volume the 2003 carries the most reports, with 18; the 2017 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 overheating
    no odometer readings given
    —
  2. 1997 Honda Accord overheating 230k
  3. 1998 Honda Accord overheating 74k
  4. 1999 Honda Accord overheating 10k
  5. 2000 Honda Accord overheating 87k
  6. 2001 Honda Accord overheating 37k
  7. 2003 Honda Accord overheating 130k
  8. 2004 Honda Accord overheating 45k
  9. 2005 Honda Accord overheating 78k
  10. 2008 Honda Accord overheating 22k
  11. 2009 Honda Accord overheating 128k
  12. 2010 Honda Accord overheating 25k
  13. 2012 Honda Accord overheating 9k
  14. 2013 Honda Accord overheating
    no odometer readings given
    —
  15. 2014 Honda Accord overheating
    no odometer readings given
    —
  16. 2015 Honda Accord overheating 42k
  17. 2016 Honda Accord overheating 161k
  18. 2017 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  19. 2018 Honda Accord overheating 500
  20. 2019 Honda Accord overheating
    no odometer readings given
    —
  21. 2020 Honda Accord overheating 34k
  22. 2021 Honda Accord overheating 21k
  23. 2022 Honda Accord overheating 127k
  24. 2023 Honda Accord overheating
    no odometer readings given
    —
  25. 2024 Honda Accord overheating 96k

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 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 3 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 3 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