The 2009 Honda Accord has 10 recalls, the most serious being the Takata airbag inflator defect, where both the driver and passenger frontal airbag inflators can explode and send metal fragments into the cabin, causing serious injury or death.
The passenger-side inflator issue is the subject of multiple recalls, reflecting the scale and complexity of the Takata campaign. Beyond the core inflator rupture risk, several recalls address passenger frontal airbags that were replaced at dealerships but may have been installed incorrectly, meaning the bag could deploy improperly in a crash rather than protecting the occupant. There is also a separate concern with the airbag control unit, which can corrode and fail entirely, leaving the airbags unable to deploy at all in a collision. On the drivetrain side, a bearing inside the automatic transmission can break during certain driving conditions and cause a short circuit that stalls the engine.