Used 2016 Honda Accord Consumer Reviews

2016 Certified Accord EX-L Outstanding Deal

This is my 9th Honda Accord sedan. I love the car. The only wart is the ride at times. 90% of the time the ride is good enough-handling is good. 10% of the time when the road is bad, the ride is very rough. But I can live that. The most important issue is transmission performance to me. There is no delay that it makes it an unsafe vehicle like some other cars. I owed an upscale Honda product-Acura TLX. Mine was of 2015 vintage with 4,300 mile when I sold it in September 2016 and I only owned it for a year. I did not feel safe driving it. A variant of the 6 cylinder with the 9 speed ZF was the powertrain. That transmission strangled the 290 horsepower, and the VCM on top of the 9 speed completely neutered the Acura in question. The transmission shifted erratically and 4th gear took too long to engage. The Accord is not for everybody but for my being an Accord fan it is A- and just great. I got this car as a Honda certified with 6,300 miles for with a pre-tax price within + or - 4% of trade-in value. Clean CarFax and AutoCheck accident free. In service date of 1/12/16 - thus, 7 yr Certified warranty ends Jan 2023. I got a wraparound First Automotive warranty that expires same day as Honda 7 year that includes a ton more components than the Honda 7 year powertrain warranty for a nominal amount. The dealership that I purchased the car from was Rick Roush in Medina, Ohio. The sales personnel, Tyler Roush and Tracy Hammond, were extremely helpful and did an outstanding job. A recent listing for a used identical vehicle in a different color was originally listed with a Ford dealer at $28,476-way too high a price. This Ford dealer just reduced it after a few days to $26,810 for a non-Honda certified vehicle-a fair price but not a great price. I did extremely well in my purchase of this car. Again my hat off to Rick Roush Honda.

Honda 2016 Sens Accord

Road sensor is very good, though it puts too much distance between you and the car in front of you, annoying drivers behind you.

2016 White Rabbit

All in all I like the car. It's not as comfortable a rider as I would prefer on roads other the interstate. Very pleased with the MPG. Just returned from a 1860 mile trip, mostly interstate but about 300 mile 2 lane country and about 100 small town. The entire trip averaged over 34 mpg. Interstate speed 70-75. 26-27 mpg is the norm for my daily trips. I consider this very good for a V6.

Great car marred by infotainment & dim instruments

This is a great car marred only by a maddening and slow infotainment system and instrument panel lights that are difficult to see with polarized sunglasses. The infotainment would be okay except the touchscreen symbols frequently need two or three pushes to make something happen. The infotainment control wheel/button would make an acceptable substitute for dials except for the delay when you push the button to change from, say FM to Sirius/XM. It's measured in seconds - come on Honda these are electrons for heaven's sake. The instrument panel lighting control doesn't seem to want to work unless the headlights are on and it is dark outside, and then you can't turn it bright enough for daytime use to offset the view through sunglasses, especially the gray-on-black center portion of the display. Hopefully Honda will check he simplicity and clarity of their past designs and get serious about a do-over. Then the Accord would be a perfect car. Update: Very comfortable. Wonderful engine. Transmission occasionally loses its way on slow acceleration after stop signs. Tire pressure monitoring system DOESN'T MEASURE TIRE PRESSURE! Within all the convoluted infotainment screens you can't find a simple diagram showing tire pressure at each wheel. The TPMS calibration feature can't activate unless the vehicle is stopped but the calibration only takes place after the vehicle has been running for awhile at 30-60 mph so it can measure rolling characteristics. When the air temperature is very cold, say 10 deg F, and all four tires are equally underinflated, there is no warning. I'm beginning to think all the best Honda engineers were working on the NSX. Please, please, please Honda give the infotainment system a massive overhaul, including a TPMS system that actually measures and shows tire pressures. Update 6/2018: A very good car that continues to be marred by electronic glitches. Bulletproof transportation. Wonderful for trips with a very powerful, very smooth engine with decent gas mileage, low 20s around town, high 20s highway. Leather seats comfortable for tall (me) and short (spouse) alike. Large, well-shaped trunk. No squeaks or rattles. The automatic (non-CVT) transmission occasionally stumbles over itself pulling away from a stop sign as if it can't figure out which gear to be in, but once rolling it is a dream. Throttle tip-in is quite sensitive making me feel like a beginning driver, even though I've been driving for over 40 years. The remote fob is overly sensitive, fully capable of popping the trunk lid while the fob is in my pocket, in my second floor office. The infotainment hell continues, the latest being that the USB port in the center armrest cubby has decided it only wants to recognize my music stick some of the time. The rest of the time it shows a big Unplayable warning. The USB port in the dash doesn't seem to have the same problem but with the stick in place the flap door can't close all the way. Would I get it again? Maybe, if the infotainment undergoes a massive overhaul, if the fob could be made less sensitive, if the transmission could be fine tuned, but then again, maybe asking for a modern car to be free of digital gremlins is asking too much. I may even keep it when the lease runs out. The good far outweighs the bad.

Great Car