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What 217 owners told NHTSA about the 2021 Honda Accord Plug In Hybrid

These are the actual owner complaints behind this car’s reliability verdict, filed with the federal government, unedited. They’re unverified reports, not confirmed defects: read them as leads for your pre-purchase inspection, not a diagnosis.

All (217)Crash / fire / injury (16)Driver assistance (58)Electrical system (54)Engine (30)Brakes (25)Airbags (14)Fuel system (14)Lane Departure (14)Transmission & drivetrain (11)Steering (8)Speed control (7)

14 of 217 complaints match · Lane Departure · clear filters

Dec 21, 2025BrakesLane DepartureDriver assistance

It makes false things there is no car but it brakes by self for nothing

NHTSA ODI 11706425

Oct 9, 2025Lane Departure

The contact owns a 2021 Honda Accord. The contact’s spouse stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the Lane Keep Assistance feature became inoperable. The contact’s spouse stated that the feature was erroneously activated and deactivated. The contact stated that while the LKAS was activated, the vehicle jerked abnormally. The contact expressed concerns about the failure. The contact stated that the safety feature was very hazardous and could pose a risk to the driver and other vehicle operators. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, but was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure, and a case was opened. The approximate failure mileage was 60,000.

NHTSA ODI 11692316

Sep 13, 2025SteeringLane Departure

This Honda continues to have fantom alerts and false warnings that triggers the car to jerk the steering wheel and try to steer you into another lane. I have narrowly avoided crashes more than 50 times. No "safety" system should be able to jerk the wheel out of your hands. You have know for more than 5 years about this defect, why no action? Shameful mismanagement that now needs to sued to get a reaction.

NHTSA ODI 11687043

Aug 20, 2025Electrical systemLane DepartureDriver assistance

The touch screen is malfunctioning. Its "ghost touching" as in the screen is pressing random buttons on the screen at random times while driving. It can change and has changed settings while driving (distance for breaking before a collision, etc). While its touching random things on the screen im unable to touch anything on the screen. As if its locking me from pressing anything.

NHTSA ODI 11681997

Apr 27, 2025Lane Departure

Lanes on the roadway were adjusted for a workzone. Because of these lane adjustments, a large amount of crack sealer was used on the roadway. The car confused the crack sealer as roadway markings and tried to slam on the brakes in a workzone, thinking I was going over the lines, unless I used the turn signal to override the automatic braking, which is the only way I was able to avoid getting rear-ended. This ian't the first time this ecent has occurred in my vehicle.

NHTSA ODI 11657024

Feb 4, 2025Lane Departure

steering wheel jerks hard out of my hands. Car, especially in direct sunlight jerks the wheel thinking that I'm not in the center of my lane, even though I was centered. Hard to control the car.

NHTSA ODI 11640544

Jan 18, 2025Lane Departure

Lane departure continues to jerk the wheel out of my hands while driving into direct sunlight. Car thinks its not in it lane an jerks the wheel pulling my into another lane if I don't fight back.

NHTSA ODI 11636686

Jan 16, 2025Lane Departure

Lane centering continue to jerk the wheel so hard it almost pulls the wheel out of my hands. In direct sunlight the issue is severe. Honda refuses to fix and wont fix recalls for my Accord. Honda is claiming it will take 4-5 years to fix recall on my car.

NHTSA ODI 11636202

Jan 11, 2025Lane DepartureDriver assistance

Lane keep assist continues to jerk the wheel from my hands with false lane departure warnings. Especially in direct sunlight. THIS HAS BEEN REPORTED TO YOU 100'S OF TIMES AND NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE FOR 4 YEARS. HOW MANY MORE PEOPLE HAVE TO BE KILLED AND INJURED IN HONDAS BEFORE YOU ACT?

NHTSA ODI 11635445

Mar 22, 2024Lane DepartureDriver assistance

--Automatic braking: When I first purchased car in 2021, the automatic emergency braking engaged abruptly 3 times within the first 3000 miles of driving the car. I was unable to get a resolution through dealer, local Honda service centers or Honda corp. I turn off the feature each time I start my car, but I'm told by Honda service that there is no way to disable feature to prevent safety hazard. --Lane Keeping Assistance: Since purchasing car in 2021, my lane keeping assistance does not work properly and pretty often will actually try to pull the car out of lane both on local roads and more often on the interstate. I have the feature disabled for safety.

NHTSA ODI 11578837

Apr 24, 2023Electrical systemLane Departure

Hello, i want to report an issue with my honda accord 2.0t 2021. When i drive in rainy or snowy day all lights come up on dashboard and probably 70% of the futures gets disabled. Things that gets disabled: Back up camera, line assistant, trunk doesn’t open, A/C doesn’t work, windshield wipers spray doesn’t work, high beam doesn’t work, horn gets stuck and beeps and the only way to shut off is to stop and disconnect the battery, otherwise it beeps non stop. I record a video and here is the link. Thank you https://youtu.be/ABoYlunVNVo

NHTSA ODI 11518791

Apr 15, 2022Lane Departure

The vehicle has a camera that reads speed limit signs, and reports the current speed limit in the instrument cluster. This feature does not work as expected, and the car regularly reports wildly inaccurate speeds, such as a speed limit of 10 MPH on a highway, or a speed limit of 85 MPH in the city. This happened on numerous occasions. The vehicle does not have an option to disable this feature. As a result, it is distracting for the driver, and may also cause accidents by giving false information about the road to the driver.

NHTSA ODI 11460963

Mar 22, 2022BrakesLane DepartureDriver assistance

21 Accord breaking itself there is no reason and there is no car around. Blind Spot working itself there is no car around car. Almost had 4 accidents. Not driving anymore waitin attorneys for lemon law

NHTSA ODI 11457907

Nov 15, 2021Lane Departure

Blind spot warning indicator intermittently illuminates when there is no vehicle in the blind spot.

NHTSA ODI 11440569

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How to use these: a complaint is one owner’s report, filed voluntarily and published unverified. Patterns matter more than any single story. If several owners describe the same failure at similar mileage, put that system at the top of your pre-purchase inspection list. Back to the full 2021 Honda Accord Plug In Hybrid verdict →