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|---|---|
| NHTSA Complaint Number: 005051433 | Incident Date: Dec, 23 2005 |
| Consumer's City: BURKE | Consumer's State: VA |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) |
| Model Name: ACCORD | Model Year: 2006 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Power train |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: 1HGCM66876A | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Dec, 30 2005 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: Nov, 24 2005 |
| Was Original Owner: Yes | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 6 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: We experienced a problem in stopping at a red light on our trip back from an out of town trip last weekend. as a result of this experience my wife is now afraid to drive this car. after a few hours of highway driving, and decelerating through an exit ramp, then re-accelerating and attempting to stop at a stop light we experienced and an extremely resistant brake pedal requiring extremely hard pedal pressure and the engine seemed to continue to rev during braking. while stopped at the light the engine continued to rev abnormally. our 30-year-old son was driving. he did not move his foot from the brake pedal for fear of what would happen. he switched into park and the engine stopped revving. while keeping his foot on the brake pedal he put the car back in drive. then the engine seemed normal and the brake pedal pressure returned to normal. this was a disconcerting experience because it was abnormally difficult to stop, and we almost ran into a car in front of us. there were three adult witnesses to this frightening episode, my wife, our adult son, and me. we did not use the cruise control at any time during this trip. we took the vehicle to our honda dealer. they examined the car thoroughly and could find no problems. they hypothesized that this may have been a computer error, but the systems test out fine now. now our family is left with a car that we know has a serious safety defect, and we drive it in fear that this could happen again, hurting others or us. we also recognize the possibility that this stealth defect may be lurking to hurt others in other 2006 honda accord v6 cars. *jb |
