FaultScore

2022 Honda Accord acceleration problems

11 of the 376 complaints about the 2022 Honda Accord are about the throttle and cruise control — 3% of everything reported for this model year. Half of the failures with a mileage on record happened before 1,700 miles.

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Exactly what failed

Vehicle Speed Control 11 100.0%

Acceleration & Cruise Control across every Honda Accord year

1988 12 1.1%
1992 12 1.1%
1994 24 2.1%
1995 29 2.6%
1996 29 2.6%
1997 38 3.4%
1998 69 6.1%
1999 51 4.5%
2000 64 5.6%
2001 58 5.1%
2002 47 4.1%
2003 81 7.1%
2004 58 5.1%
2005 58 5.1%
2006 24 2.1%
2007 41 3.6%
2008 33 2.9%
2009 21 1.9%
2010 23 2.0%
2011 12 1.1%
2012 26 2.3%
2013 50 4.4%
2014 41 3.6%
2015 26 2.3%
2016 23 2.0%
2017 18 1.6%
2018 111 9.8%
2019 31 2.7%
2020 12 1.1%
2022 11 1.0%

What owners said

Filed with NHTSA, in their own words.

Macomb, MI

VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

1) incident 1: While changing lanes on an empty street emergency brake kicked in although there is vehicle in front or rear in adjacent lane. Incident date: 08/6/2026 2) incident 2: during snow time on a free way I75 towards airport. AEB kicked in multiple times. Environment Conditions: Snowing, Road is icy and vehicle was moving at 30mph. This situation was scary as we had vehicle in front and rear. If wouldn’t have intervened my car would be sandwiched between front and rear traffic cars. Incident date: Feb 2025

NHTSA complaint #11758387 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

Breaux Bridge, LA

VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

BRAKE SYSTEM ERROR AND TURBO AND HEAD GASKET NEED TO BE CHANGED. SO MAY COMPLAINTS ABOUT THIS...

NHTSA complaint #11744769 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

Redwood Valley, CA

VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

Component Affected: Electrical System / Vehicle Speed Control / Forward Visibility / Navigation / Infotainment Description of Safety Hazard: I am experiencing a severe, highly unpredictable, and dangerous hardware defect involving the factory infotainment system on my 2022 Honda Accord Sport SE. The screen suffers from a hardware failure known as "ghost touching," where the digital interface registers rapid, erratic touch inputs completely on its own without being touched. This defect creates an immediate and severe driver distraction while the vehicle is in motion by automatically placing uncommanded phone calls to random contacts, changing settings, turning the radio on, and forcing sudden, loud audio spikes that startle the driver. Furthermore, these chaotic system glitches directly impact critical driving, navigation, and safety systems: GPS Navigation Failure: The ghost touches actively disrupt the GPS navigation system. The screen will randomly force the GPS map on when not in use, or it will glitch, freeze, and misroute while I am actively trying to navigate heavy traffic. This renders the primary navigation entirely useless, leaving me stranded and forcing my attention away from the road to attempt a manual override. Cruise Control Dropout & Auditory Panic Hazard: The system intermittently triggers a critical error on the dashboard that completely disables the vehicle’s Cruise Control / Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) systems at highway speeds. When this error flashes, the vehicle emits a loud, non-stop, continuous warning chime that refuses to turn off until the car's computer system randomly resets itself. This non-stop beeping creates an intense visual and auditory panic situation while driving at high speeds, completely shattering driver focus.

NHTSA complaint #11744623 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

Bainbridge, GA

VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

Vsa modular control unit. Car breaks automatically without object in front of it

NHTSA complaint #11645697 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

Hampton, NH

VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

Everytime I start my car in the cold I get all these warning messages on my dash, in this case it just let me choose 2 options but I also get Auto idle stop problem, mitagation problem etc. I took it to the dealer they dont know what could be the proble. There are no recallas on this and people on forums are saying it can be a module. This is dangerous.

NHTSA complaint #11620295 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

North Miami Beach, FL

VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

2022 Honda Accord is experiencing a “traction control” light turning on randomly. Following that, multiple indicators turn on which disable the functions of economy, cruise control, and other features. When the traction warning is flashing, the vehicle makes an electrical sound.

NHTSA complaint #11571320 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

Waco, TX

VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

This occurred twice both happened on the highway going 65 mph. I accelerated as usual, suddenly the check engine light began blinking and I lost the ability to accelerate (limp mode). The car instantly dropped to 20 mph. After a minute, the check engine blinking light went away. Both times I was luckily able to get off of the highway going 20 mph. The first occurrence, I turned the car off for 30 minutes. After turning back on, car was fine as if nothing happened. The second occurrence, after calling Honda they recommended towing to dealership, which I did. At my dealership, they drove a lot, but could not duplicate issue. However, there was code DTC P0304 misfire. From the dealer paperwork "cylinder 4 swap spark plugs to known working plug misfire gone recommend replacing all plug random misfire. Removed and replaced all spark plugs." Since this repair two weeks ago, I have not had any issues and the acceleration feels less sluggish than before. This is a VERY serious issue that could result in injury or death if it occurs to others!

NHTSA complaint #11550704 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

Princeton, TX

VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

I was driving down the interstate with my cruise control on. It was set to 75 mph. The vehicle began to speed up on it's own. We reached 86/87 mph when I turned off the cruise control but the vehicle was still accelerating. We reached ~95mph, I was slightly applying brake pressure and this slowed down the rate of acceleration but did not stop it. I tried shifting to neutral but the car didn't respond. We reached a little over ~100mph and the car finally stop accelerating. The whole event lasted ~30 seconds to 1 minute.

NHTSA complaint #11521204 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

Richardson, TX

VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

The Collision Mitigation Braking System is overly sensitive, aggressive, unpredictable and sometimes erratic causing extremely dangerous situations including almost causing traffic accidents due to unwarranted locking up of brakes sometimes on the freeway at very dangerous highway speeds. I've had about 5 scenarios where the system has terrified me by applying heavy stopping power in a dangerous and unexpected manner in situations where I would never apply the brakes! One of the occasions was on a 35mph roadway that had a small dip hardly anything, with no cars, pedestrians in front of me SLAMMED the brakes aggressively for 0 reason and with nothing in front of the car but a slight dip in the road. Another occasion was on a freeway at freeway speeds where the car dangerously slammed on the brakes causing unexpected and abrupt loss of speed which WOULD HAVE resulted in a car behind me rear-ending my vehicle, in this case luckily no vehicle was directly behind me in this instance, but in the future this can cause an accident and put myself and others at risk. This vehicle is brand new, less than 3,000 miles. I've contacted Honda Corporate who directed me to a Honda Dealer which they seemed to advise I will be out of pocket for a diagnosis fee for, on a car that randomly and unexpectedly SLAMS ON BRAKES. This is unacceptable, the system automatically turns back on as soon as the vehicle starts up, there's no way to permanently deactivate this dangerous feature. This needs to be resolved immediately!!!

NHTSA complaint #11520299 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

at 1,700 miles Irvington, NY

VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

The contact leased a 2022 Honda Accord. The contact stated that while driving at slow speeds in a parking garage, the vehicle struck the curb and independently accelerated. The contact was unable to control the vehicle. The contact attempted to shift gear, but the vehicle failed to respond. The vehicle then came to a stop, avoiding a crash. The contact restarted the vehicle and drove to his residence. There were no warning lights illuminated. The contact called an unknown local dealer, but the vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was contacted. The vehicle was taken to an auto body shop. The failure mileage was approximately 1,700. The VIN was not available.

NHTSA complaint #11517902 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

Winchester, VA

VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

I was using cruise control on high speed road. I depressed brake and turned onto a slower road. I continued for about a hundred yards and when I tried to come to a full stop by depressing the brake the car seemed to be trying to accelerate and I was barely able to bring the car to a stop. As I stopped the engine cut off. A similar incident occurred the day before. I took car to dealer and after checking for two days they were unable to reproduce the problem.

NHTSA complaint #11516373 — an unverified report by a vehicle owner.

Other 2022 Honda Accord problems

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