One problem related to brake grinding noise has been reported for the 2004 Honda Accord. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2004 Honda Accord based on all problems reported for the 2004 Accord.
I bought a new Honda Accord lx in may of 2004. As the brakes wore down they began to have a surge type of problem and make a grinding noise once in a while. When I replaced the brake pads I found that one of the pads was close to being worn out on one side of the rotor and the other was like new, on both left and front rotors. After I replaced them, everything seemed to be fine until after they had worn about 25,000 miles. Now they have about 45,00 miles on them. Now they are doing it again except the surge problem is much worse this time and the steering wheel will shake violently sometimes if I put the brakes on hard. Sometimes the problem seems to be minor and sometimes it is really bad. I ask the Honda people about it and they want money to put it on the rack to look at it; something I don't have a lot of. Hope this will be of help to someone else.