This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
From about March of 2007 we started having problems with our brakes, they had been changed about twice a year. We thought cause we drive around in a city, the brakes wear out faster than normal. Then 2 years later we were having problems starting the car. We had to get it jumped start- it several times, before we purchased a new battery. Though it has been a year from the time we got a new battery, we still had problems starting the vehicle. We have taken it in to the auto shop several time, and they could not find the problem. Then the gear would not shift into drive and we took it in to get that fixed, and now it does not start all. It is not the battery, because the dash board lights still come on. At 74,0000 miles we should not be having so many failures with this vehicle!
Ever since I purchased my '06 Honda Element I have had problems wit my foot touching the accelerator pedal when I go to apply the brake. Add heavy boots and a bit of winter ice and it all added up to sudden acceleration and sliding into the front gate on my property while I was trying to apply the brake causing major damage to the car and my property. The brake and accelerator are too close to one another!!! I knew some day that this would happen, guess I should be thankful that no one was injured. This is a major design problem.
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- San Francisco, CA, USA