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Model years to avoid

Honda Odyssey

What it says about you

Opinion

You stopped caring what the car said about you at some point between the second and third child, and the relief was enormous. The vacuum is the best feature and you will tell anyone.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

22 model years on record, 7,901 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2019 (fuel), 2018 (transmission), 2007 (soft), 2006 (condenser), 2005 (mounts). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • stop 2024, 2025 peak 64.2% of that year's complaints
  • restart 2024, 2025 peak 56.3% of that year's complaints
  • motor 2005, 2006 peak 14.5% of that year's complaints
  • acceleration 2010, 2018, 2019 peak 11% of that year's complaints
  • gears 2014, 2015 peak 7.5% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 2 recalls 24 complaints
  2. 2025 2 recalls 302 complaints
  3. 2024 3 recalls 86 complaints
  4. 2023 5 recalls 93 complaints
  5. 2022 9 recalls 128 complaints
  6. 2021 8 recalls 132 complaints
  7. 2020 14 recalls 445 complaints
  8. 2019 fuel 921 complaints
  9. 2018 transmission 957 complaints
  10. 2017 2 recalls 39 complaints
  11. 2016 6 recalls 266 complaints
  12. 2015 6 recalls 203 complaints
  13. 2014 5 recalls 307 complaints
  14. 2013 6 recalls 210 complaints
  15. 2012 5 recalls 242 complaints
  16. 2011 5 recalls 232 complaints
  17. 2010 2 recalls 255 complaints
  18. 2009 4 recalls 198 complaints
  19. 2008 5 recalls 499 complaints
  20. 2007 soft 830 complaints
  21. 2006 condenser 703 complaints
  22. 2005 mounts 829 complaints

What does a Honda Odyssey say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.