Is it true Honda used many Fords parts on the 6th gen Accord?

On Drive Accord forum I read a thread that said Ford had provided a lot of parts to Honda in the late 90s/early 00s on the production of the Honda Accord. Honda had announced in 1998 that this would be the first "American Accord" with 90% of the materials being domestic products.

I know this generation is the first USDM Accord while the prior accords were all true Japanese vehicles, but the US version was used in several Asian markets like Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Australia / New Zealand.

Can this be the reason why the 6th gen Accord suffered from several issues like the tranny problems and interior problems like rattling and the hard touch plastic dashboard? Are all these ****ty GM produc issues?

What was Honda thinking when they partnered up with Ford?

...y GM produc is...

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GM is Chevy, GMC, Buick, Pontiac, etc...

Ford's main contender.

But I know that the cluster is Ford, I don't know about anything else. And I haven't noticed plastic cracking or deforming.

It's 15 years old, has nearly a quarter million miles, and still works.

Keep driving it till you reach over a million miles and Honda will give you a free new Accord.

The vanity mirrors are also Ford

like the sun visor mirrors?

Wierd if they are, I don't remember seeing 'FMC' like I do on the gauges...I did completely disassemble one...





Replaced the light with a charge connector, so you can bluetooth or wifi whatever you want to the radio.

Photo evidence from my 2001 Accord EX V6 (bottom of pic).




iPhone using Tapatalk, sent from my.

OUCH!!

I'm glad that lil bit was covered!

V6 clusters are the only part I know were made by ford. I don't think any of the transmissions ever were

BooYa!

The -ONLY- part that might be designed to fail, is the part that is supposed to tell you that others have failed, which doesn't matter, because they won't!

I <3 my V6

Mine hasn't failed

Well, unless you count the light bulbs....