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.
2001 HONDA ACCORD
3 safety recall campaigns, 10 defect investigations (2 open), 1,160 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns3
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations102 open
Owner complaints1,160
Complaints citing a crash199
Complaints citing a fire4
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 3 of 3
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.
15V320000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the driver's frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
What owners report most
- 279AIR BAGS
- 125POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
- 81POWER TRAIN
- 52AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:SENSOR/CONTROL MODULE
- 51AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
- 44VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 43ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 35STRUCTURE:BODY
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2001 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.