Honda Accord Saloon, CU

Beautifully built, quiet and almost entirely ignored on the used market, which makes it one of the better-value cars here.

Overview

The CU is the sedan Honda Accord, built 2008–2015. 3 standard engines are documented here, each with its own issue list, inspection sequence and price band. Asking prices across the standard range run €1,850–€6,850, and 1 of the 3 carry a risk level of 4 or 5. The cheapest way in is the 2.2 i-DTEC N22B from €2,600, while the 2.0 i-VTEC R20A is the lowest-risk engine at €2,750, so which engine you buy matters more here than which year. Prices are illustrative placeholders rather than a sourced market sample. See the methodology.

Body stylesedanProduction2008–2015
Platform siblingsCW wagonFacelift (LCI)none

Engine matrix: pre-facelift, 20082015

The 3 variants sold before the 2016 facelift. Power and years come from the variant records; prices are illustrative, not sourced.

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BadgeEngineFuelYearsPowerTorqueRiskIssuesPrice bandGood buyVerdict
2.2 i-DTECN22Bdiesel20082015150 PS350 NmR44€1,850€5,450€2,600CautionView
2.0 i-VTECR20Apetrol20082015156 PS192 NmR11€2,050€5,850€2,750BuyView
2.4 i-VTECK24Zpetrol20082015201 PS234 NmR11€2,350€6,850€3,200Strong buyView

Engine matrix: facelift / LCI, 20162015

The 0 variants sold from the facelift on, priced at a 9% premium over the pre-facelift car.

0 variants from the facelift on, carrying a real market premium of roughly 9% over an otherwise identical pre-facelift car. Variants appearing in both tables were sold either side of the changeover, the build month decides which one you're looking at, not the model year.

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Nothing matches those filters.

Market availability varied by country; check the engine code stamped on the block rather than the badge on the boot. · Compare every engine side by side →

Model-year availability

Which engines were on sale in which year, from the year ranges in the variant records. Availability varied by country.

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2.2 i-DTEC N22B
2.0 i-VTEC R20A
2.4 i-VTEC K24Z

● full year · arrives or leaves mid-generation. Years from 2016 in the accent colour are facelift (LCI) cars. Verify the engine code, not the model year.

Rating map, price against risk

Good-buy price plotted against risk level for every standard engine, so the value corner is visible at a glance.

Every standard engine in the chassis, plotted at its good-buy price against its risk level. Cheap and low-risk is the top-left; expensive and fragile is the bottom-right. M cars are excluded, they would stretch the price axis and tell you nothing about the rest.

cheap · low risk€2.6k€2.8k€3k€3.2kR1R2R3R4R5good-buy price →risk ↓2.2 i-DTEC N22B: Caution, risk 4, good buy €2,6002.2 i-DTEC2.0 i-VTEC R20A: Buy, risk 1, good buy €2,7502.0 i-VTEC2.4 i-VTEC K24Z: Strong buy, risk 1, good buy €3,2002.4 i-VTEC
Buy / strong buy Buy with conditions Caution / avoidLeft is cheaper, up is safer. The top-left corner is where the value is.

Prices across the range

Where the money sits across the whole chassis. Every figure here is an illustrative placeholder, not a sourced market sample.

Every standard engine on one euro axis: the bar spans the 10th to 90th percentile of asking prices, the tick is the median and the green marker is the good-buy figure. Type R cars are excluded; they sit an order of magnitude above the rest.

Cheapest good buy€2,6002.2 i-DTEC N22B
Median good buy€2,750across 3 engines
Dearest good buy€3,2002.4 i-VTEC K24Z
Full range€1,850€6,850P10 to P90

Every standard engine · cheapest first · 2.4 i-VTEC K24Z highlighted as best value

€2k€4k€6kGood buy
2.2 i-DTEC N22B€2,6002.0 i-VTEC R20A€2,7502.4 i-VTEC K24Z€3,200

at or under the good buy · good buy · median · bar spans the 10th–90th percentile

Chassis-wide issues, every engine inherits these

Faults recorded against the bodyshell and running gear rather than one engine, so every variant on this page inherits them.

Electric power steering faultAccord platform€400–€900
A steering warning light, heavier or inconsistent assistance, and in some cases an intermittent fault that clears on a restart. The electric assistance motor and its control unit can fail. Causes vary between the motor, the torque sensor and the wiring, so a scan is worth more than a guess.
Check: Watch for a steering warning at start-up, turn lock to lock while stationary feeling for uneven assistance, and scan for steering fault codes.
SuspensionoccasionalDetectable at viewingevidence: documented120220k km

Written once against the chassis and shown on every variant page below, so nothing here is repeated 3 times: Type R cars included, since the bodyshell and electronics are shared.

Buying summary

Our read on the chassis, built on the records above rather than added to them.

Buy the petrol. The 2.0 and 2.4 i-VTEC engines are chain-driven, undramatic and close to fault-free, and they're the whole reason to choose this car. The 2.2 i-DTEC diesel needs a history, because it can crack a piston and it punishes short journeys through the particulate filter. On any car, check the electric power steering and the rear suspension bushes. A petrol Accord with a full history is among the lowest-risk purchases in this database.

Cheapest and dearest in this chassis

The ends of the range by good-buy price. Useful for sanity-checking anything you're quoted.

Lowest entry price

2.2 i-DTEC N22B : from €1,850, risk 4

2.0 i-VTEC R20A : from €2,050, risk 1

2.4 i-VTEC K24Z : from €2,350, risk 1

Lowest risk

2.0 i-VTEC R20A : risk 1, good buy at €2,750

2.4 i-VTEC K24Z : risk 1, good buy at €3,200

2.2 i-DTEC N22B : risk 4, good buy at €2,600