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Control arm, ball joint or bushing failure on the 2023 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 1
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 $400–$2,200
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 38th

When control arm, ball joint or bushing failure gets reported

There are 1 report of control arm, ball joint or bushing failure on the 2023 Honda Accord. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 38th 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–$2,200 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 15 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2003, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 165,000 miles.

By volume the 2000 carries the most reports, with 79; the 2023 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 control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 114k
  2. 1997 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 107k
  3. 1998 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 147k
  4. 1999 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 132k
  5. 2000 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 164k
  6. 2001 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 145k
  7. 2002 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 130k
  8. 2003 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 10k
  9. 2004 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 111k
  10. 2005 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 74k
  11. 2006 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 78k
  12. 2007 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 109k
  13. 2008 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 53k
  14. 2009 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 210k
  15. 2010 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 50k
  16. 2011 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 100k
  17. 2012 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure 106k
  18. 2015 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
    no odometer readings given
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  19. 2016 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
    no odometer readings given
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  20. 2017 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
    no odometer readings given
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  21. 2018 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
    no odometer readings given
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  22. 2019 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
    no odometer readings given
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  23. 2020 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
    no odometer readings given
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  24. 2021 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
    no odometer readings given
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  25. 2022 Honda Accord control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
    no odometer readings given
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  26. 2023 (this one)
    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 2023 Honda Accord

Other driver assistance problem

15 reports median 36k

Other electrical problem

12 reports median 12k

Other engine problem

7 reports median 81k

Other brake problem

7 reports median 70k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report 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 1 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