2017 Honda Accord9th gen (2013–2017), last year

Updated 2026-09-02NHTSA counts read on this date — 485 complaints. They rise over time.

51 Filings Say the 2017 Accord’s Backup Camera Goes Black. Honda Recalled the 2018 for That.

51 filings on this model year are about the backup camera. That is 10.5 percent of everything filed on the car, and more than any other Accord year in this series — the 2016 runs 4.4 percent.

32 say the screen goes black when the car is put in reverse. 17 describe it flickering, blurring or filling with lines. Four say the guide lines still appear over a black picture, which is the detail that tells you the display is working and the camera is not.

Twelve of the 51 mention a recall on the 2018 Accord. That campaign is real. 18V629000, September 2018, covers 2018 Accords and 2019 Insights. Honda filed it as a compliance recall rather than a defect recall. It does not reach this model year.

Owners have filed 485 complaints with NHTSA about the gasoline 2017 model year. Honda sold 345,135 Accords in calendar year 2016 and 322,655 in 2017 — that figure covers the whole Accord line including the hybrid — and 2017 cars were sold across both of those years. 485 complaints against a few hundred thousand cars is not a failure rate, and 485 filings are not 485 owners.

One note on scope: the hybrids are out. NHTSA files this car under four model names and the names don’t split cleanly. Every filing here was matched to a gasoline car by its VIN. On this model year that removed 94.

The basics

The last year of the ninth generation. Carried over from the 2016 facelift: LED daytime running lights, the touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, Honda Sensing on the option list. The 2.4-liter four with a CVT or a six-speed manual, and the 3.5-liter V6 with a six-speed automatic. The tenth generation arrives for 2018 and drops the V6.

Specs

Displacement and cylinder count are from NHTSA’s vPIC catalog, which holds what the manufacturer submitted. Fuel economy is EPA, city / highway / combined, in mpg. EPA lists two automatic ratings for each engine and doesn’t say which version gets which, so both are here.

What owners filed

Sections below are sorted by count. Each complaint is counted once, under a two-step rule. Step one: if a filing names a specific failure — the power steering, a head gasket, a fuel pump, the collision mitigation system, the daytime running lights — it goes to that section. Step two: everything left over gets sorted by NHTSA’s own component labels, in a fixed order — driver assistance, steering, brakes, fuel, engine, transmission, electrical, lighting, air bags, body.

The same rule applies to every year in this series. The cross-year table on the model page uses NHTSA’s labels alone, so a section here can come out bigger or smaller than the matching row on that page.

The sections below add up to 364. The remaining 121 are spread across the smaller categories, and the last section below breaks them out.

The camera doesn’t have a section. NHTSA has a label for it — back over prevention — but it used that label on only 15 of these filings. The 51 land wherever the sentence went: 20 in electrical, 2 in driver assistance, 1 in fuel, and 28 in the thin categories. The 51 is counted across the whole record, so it does not add onto anything below it.

Two other things run across sections the same way. 53 filings describe the car stalling, spread over five sections. 23 are about tire noise, and almost all of those are in the thin categories.

Engine type comes from decoding the VIN attached to each filing. 456 of the 485 decode to one of the two engines — 329 are the 2.4 and 127 are the V6, so the V6 is 27.9 percent of the filings that decode.

This is not a failure rate by engine. Nothing here divides failures by how many of each engine Honda built, because the complaint record doesn’t contain that.

Electrical — 104

Counted as filings NHTSA tagged electrical system.

The largest section. 32 are the static from the speakers that dominates the 2016 car, 20 are the backup camera, 19 name the battery, 7 describe the screen freezing or going unresponsive.

ODI 11270614:

“REAR CAMERA HAS MALFUNCTIONED. THE DASHBOARD SCREEN SHOWS A BLACK BACKGROUND WITH HORIZONTAL ’VIBRATING ’ LINES. 2018 HONDA ACCORDS HAD A RECALL FOR THIS BUT TO DATE THERE HAS BEEN NO RECALL FOR THE 2017 ACCORDS ALTHOUGH IT SEEMS TO BE THE SAME PROBLEM.”

The static is 100 filings on the 2016 car and 32 here. The record can’t say whether it’s the same part.

Fuel system — 65

Counted as filings that name a fuel pump or fuel in the oil, plus those NHTSA tagged fuel system or fuel and propulsion.

The second-largest section here, and the largest it has been in this generation — it is 42 on the 2016 car and 39 on the 2015. 33 name the fuel pump and 24 describe a stall.

Two campaigns cover this, four years apart, and they are not the same repair. 19V060000 is V6 only and starts with software. 23V858000 replaces the pump module on everything. Both are below.

Engine — 37

Counted as filings that name a head gasket or overheating, plus those NHTSA tagged engine or engine and cooling.

11 describe a stall. Four name the starter, which is 200 filings on the 2014 car and 8 on this one record-wide.

Transmission — 30

Counted as filings that name the CVT, the transmission or a driveshaft, plus those NHTSA tagged power train.

Six name the CVT and six describe a harsh or slipping shift.

Air bags and belts — 26

Counted as filings NHTSA tagged air bags or seat belts.

Five say a bag did not deploy. Three mention Takata or an inflator. The newest campaign on this page is here, and it arrived in 2026.

Steering — 25

Counted as filings that name the power steering or the EPS, plus those NHTSA tagged steering.

12 name the power steering or the EPS. On the 2013 car this section is 514 filings; this is the end of that line.

Driver assistance — 23

Counted as filings that name the collision mitigation system, lane keeping or adaptive cruise, plus those NHTSA tagged forward collision avoidance or lane departure.

Nine name Honda Sensing and seven name lane departure or lane keeping. That is the first time in this series the section is mostly the driver assistance systems rather than stability control under a driver assistance label.

Brakes — 22

Counted as filings NHTSA tagged service brakes or parking brake.

Five name the ABS modulator and five are about the pedal.

Body and structure — 17

Counted as filings NHTSA tagged structure.

Five are paint or rust and three are about a door or the trunk.

Exterior lighting — 15

Counted as filings that name the daytime running lights, plus those NHTSA tagged exterior lighting.

12 name the daytime running lights. That section is 116 filings on the 2016 car, where it is the largest thing on the page. It is 15 here, and the record does not say what changed.

The rest is thin

121 filings. NHTSA tagged 55 of them unknown or other, 24 wheels, 12 back over prevention, 6 visibility/wiper, 5 seats and 4 tires. Nothing else reaches four.

The wheels number is worth pulling out. NHTSA put that label on 42 filings across this model year, which is 8.7 percent of the record and the highest of any year here. On the 2016 car the same label is on 17, or 2.8 percent. 23 are about noise: a rubbing, grinding or humming from the tires at low speed. 13 name Continental by brand and 10 say the car is a Sport. They arrive early and stop: 16 of the 23 were filed in 2019 and none after 2021.

Recalls

Three campaigns reach a gasoline 2017 Accord. A fourth, which owners keep bringing up, does not.

The seat weight sensor

26V332000 — May 2026, the newest thing on this page. The front passenger seat weight sensor can crack and short circuit.

“Air bags that deploy unintentionally during a crash increase the risk of injury.”

Dealers replace the sensor. Owner letters were mailed July 7, 2026. It covers 2016–2022 Accords and most of the Honda and Acura line, and Honda’s own text calls it an expansion of an earlier campaign, 24V064000.

It is recent enough that a car on a lot today may not have had it done.

V6 only: the fuel pump

19V060000 — January 2019, covering 2015–2017 Accords with the 3.5-liter V6, plus the Acura TLX and MDX. Honda says particulates in the fuel can stick to the inside of the fuel pump and reduce how well it works.

“Reduced fuel pump performance can result in an engine stall, increasing the risk of crash.”

Dealers reprogram the fuel injection control unit and replace the pump if they need to. This is the last model year it covers.

The other fuel pump

23V858000 — December 2023, covering 2013–2023 Accords and most of the Honda and Acura line. The pump can fail and stall the engine while driving. Dealers replace the pump module. Owner letters went out September 6, 2024.

The campaign that isn’t here

18V629000 — September 2018. The backup camera center display may not work properly. Honda reprograms the display audio unit software.

It covers 2018 Accords and 2019 Insights. Not this car.

It is a compliance recall rather than a defect recall. Honda’s text says the affected vehicles “fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 111, Rearview Mirrors.” A recall written that way covers the vehicles the standard reaches, which is a different question from which vehicles have the problem. Which cars the standard reached, and when, is not in the recall text.

51 filings on this page describe the same failure, and no campaign covers them.

What doesn’t show up in the complaints

NHTSA gives the 2017 Accord sedan five stars overall, four in the frontal test, five on side impact and five on rollover. The coupe scores five across all four.

Nothing in the complaint record argues with that. Owners do not file about crash ratings.

The 2.4 with the CVT returns 30 mpg combined, five better than the V6 automatic.

What the complaint curve says

2016    5     2020   44     2024   44
2017   43     2021   41     2025   69
2018   37     2022   40     2026   35
2019   67     2023   60

There is no hump here. Ten straight years between 35 and 69. The 2016 car has two peaks and the 2014 has one; this record is flat, and the reason is that no single failure is more than about a tenth of it.

The camera filings spread across eight years and top out at 14 in 2021. The tire noise arrives in 2019 and stops. The stalls run one to eleven a year for a decade.

A complaint count going up can mean owners got a recall notice, not that the cars got worse. The only campaign that could have moved this record arrived in 2026, after most of it was filed.

Complaint databases collect complaints. Nobody files to say the camera came on. You can’t compare these numbers across models unless both sets were counted the same way.

If you’re looking at one

Ordered by how much it hurts if it goes wrong, not by how many people filed.

Put it in reverse before you drive it, twice, a few minutes apart. 51 filings name the camera and 32 say the screen goes black. Nine say it is intermittent, so one look proves less than usual. If the guide lines appear over a black picture, the display is fine and the camera is not. No campaign covers this on the 2017.

Check 26V332000 by number. The seat weight sensor, letters mailed July 2026. Run the VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls — it only lists recalls that are still open, so a clean result means either the work was done or the car was never covered. Any Honda dealer’s service department can pull the completion record by VIN, and it’s free.

Ask whether 23V858000 was done, and if it’s a V6, 19V060000 as well. Both are the fuel pump and both name an engine stall while driving as the consequence. A V6 is badged on the trunk lid and the listing will say 3.5L; if neither is clear, a dealer can read the engine off the VIN.

Sit in it with the engine running and the audio off, and give it a while. The static that dominates the 2016 car is 32 filings here. Owners who say how long they waited give times from five minutes to half an hour, so a short listen proves little.

Numbers worth writing down

The two deaths are in filings that do not name a component failure. One is a crash with no cause given; the other describes the car accelerating on its own.

This is the last of the ninth generation. The 2018 car is a different platform with different engines, and its record is more than three times the size.

Sources

• NHTSA complaint database — 579 complaints across the four model names NHTSA files this car under, of which 94 are hybrids and are excluded; quoted above by ODI number
• NHTSA recall API — three campaigns reaching this car, plus 18V629000, which does not; quoted from the campaign summaries and consequence text
• NHTSA vPIC — engine and electrification, decoded from the VIN attached to each filing
• NHTSA safety ratings — 2017 Honda Accord
• EPA fuel economy — city / highway / combined
• GoodCarBadCar Honda Accord sales figures

Complaint counts and quotes come from NHTSA’s public database, retrieved September 2, 2026; each quote lists its ODI number so you can look it up. Engine type comes from decoding the VIN attached to each filing — 456 of the 485 decode to a 2.4 or a 3.5, 21 filings carry no VIN at all, and the remaining 8 don’t decode. Recall applicability depends on the VIN and, for one of the fuel pump campaigns, on which engine the car has — check yours at nhtsa.gov/recalls. This summarizes what owners reported. It isn’t buying or repair advice.