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Electrical · 3 owner reports

Ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure on the 2021 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 $250–$1,500
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 27th

When ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure gets reported

There are 3 reports of ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure on the 2021 Honda Accord. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 27th 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 $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 2021 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 ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 193k
  2. 1997 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 165k
  3. 1998 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 127k
  4. 1999 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 134k
  5. 2000 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 117k
  6. 2001 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 127k
  7. 2002 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 71k
  8. 2003 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 98k
  9. 2004 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 127k
  10. 2005 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 99k
  11. 2006 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 100k
  12. 2007 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 52k
  13. 2008 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 46k
  14. 2009 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 10k
  15. 2010 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 36k
  16. 2012 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 96k
  17. 2013 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 41k
  18. 2014 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 47k
  19. 2015 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 74k
  20. 2016 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 14k
  21. 2017 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 14k
  22. 2018 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 8k
  23. 2019 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 66k
  24. 2020 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure
    no odometer readings given
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  25. 2021 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  26. 2023 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 37k
  27. 2025 Honda Accord ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure
    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 2021 Honda Accord

Other driver assistance problem

51 reports median 13k

Infotainment screen failure

23 reports median 75k

Other electrical problem

17 reports median 113k

Other brake problem

13 reports median 39k

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