19V501000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
2006 HONDA ACCORD
9 safety recall campaigns, 4 defect investigations (2 open), 541 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns9
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations42 open
Owner complaints541
Complaints citing a crash72
Complaints citing a fire10
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 6 of 9
19V499000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
19V182000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An explosion of an inflator within the driver frontal air bag module may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver, front seat passenger or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
18V268000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An incorrectly installed air bag may deploy improperly in the event of a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
16V178000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An air bag module does not meet the advanced air bag requirements can increase the risk of injury or death in the event of a crash.
15V370000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the passenger's frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the passenger seat occupant or other occupants possibly causing serious injury or death.
What owners report most
- 120AIR BAGS
- 46STEERING
- 39POWER TRAIN
- 32ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 28UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 24SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
- 23VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 21ENGINE
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2006 HONDA ACCORDs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.