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2005 Honda Odyssey

Complaints about this year name mounts far more often than the other years of this generation — 7% of them, about 7× the usual rate of 1%.

First year of a new generation. The Honda Odyssey was redesigned for 2005. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

What the complaints were about

• design — 13.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.4% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: design, condenser, rock, flaw.
• mounts — 11.8% of this year's complaints, against 4% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: mounts, motor, broken, motor mounts.

Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.

Also unusual this year

• condenser — 6% of complaints, 10× usual
• motor — 7% of complaints, 4× usual

What owners wrote

MOTOR MOUNTS WERE CRACKED. I WAS FORCED TO REPLACE THEM AFTER I WAS TOLD BY THE DEALER THAT THIS WASN'T A RECALL ISSUE. THIS CAUSES AN EXTREME VIBRATION WHICH EFFECTS THE HANDLING OF THE CAR AND PASSENGER COMFORT.

HAVING TO REPLACE THE ENGINE MOTOR MOUNTS AGAIN. REPLACED THE FRONT MOUNT IN OCT. 2014. FAULTY AGAIN. CHECKED ONLINE AND THERE HAVE BEEN PLENTY COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE MOTOR MOUNTS. WAS TOLD ENGINE COULD FALL DOWN WHEN DRIVING. NHTSA NEED TO CHECK INTO THIS. I'M…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 14E049000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
• 14V112000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE
• 10V504000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
• 10V055000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
• 05V039000 STEERING
• 05V132000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 05V344000 AIR BAGS
• 07V097000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.

Showing 8 of 9. The rest are on NHTSA's site.

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Honda Odyssey was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.

This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.

Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.

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