2008 Honda Accord LX review from North America

The morning after I got the car, I noticed both my side mirrors were missing. I went straight to the Honda dealer to get new side mirrors, and they told me I was the 5th customer today for side mirrors. Turned out there was a gang in my area that were stealing side mirrors out of new Honda Accords. However they still did not cover it under warranty, because it was not the dealer or the manufacturer's fault.

Before this car I had the 04 Accord. The Accord I have now is a foot longer and a foot wider, with bigger tires, and you will feel the difference. The first week when I still was not used to driving it, I had to make a sharp turn. The other Accord I could turn at 25-30 mph with no problem. This car I did around the same speed, and the back of the car went over the curve and took out my muffler and the rear bumper. I had to go through my insurance company because that was also not under warranty.

The car is much heavier than the previous Honda, which makes it very underpowered with a 4 cylinder. When I have to get on a highway, the car sounds like it wants to die.

For some reason, when backing up the gas pedal is sensitive. I have to give it light taps on and off. I held my foot down on the pedal and I backed in to a barb-wired fence, and had to get the rear right tailight replaced and the rear bumper replaced the second time.

I have a narrow driveway, and this car is too wide, so I don't use it anymore unless when I come back from food shopping, I use it because the side door is right next to my drive way, so it's easy as I don't have to make long trips when I'm unloading groceries. Last week I tried backing slowly in my driveway, which has small pot holes. I try to back a little more, and the front right wheel got stuck in one of the pot holes, and the light taps did not get me out. I the tried to hold my foot down very light, and backed into my chimney, and just got my car back yesterday after getting my rear bumper replaced for the third time.

The seats are uncomfortable and very low, and do not go up high enough, and the whole dashboard is very high and I'm short, so it's hard for me to see the hood of the car. I can still see where I'm going, but I have to drive very carefully.

I do not like the car at all. It never left me stranded anywhere or anything like that. I just don't like the new design they made on the car. It looks nice inside and outside, but once you are sitting in it and driving it, it's a different story. It feels like I'm driving a bus.

Before I had the 2004 Accord, that car was a dream. I wish I still had it. Before that I had a 99 Accord, which was also a great car. Honda's are supposed to be excellent well built cars. However this particular one I have now is not.

I have driven many other Hondas, they were all sweet. They were all also stick shift, which makes the car drive safer and handles much better then an Automatic. The only reason why I now drive an automatic is because I have problems with my knees, so I can't do a lot of leg work, which was I had to trade up my last car, the 04 Accord, and bought the 08 Accord with automatic. I still would have driven the other Accord today if my knees were not bad.