2010 Honda Odyssey
This year drew an ordinary 255 complaints for a Honda Odyssey — the model's median is 242. What they were about is the unusual part: 11% of them mention acceleration, against 4% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Honda Odyssey ran from 2005 to 2010, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 255 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 242 |
| Involving a crash | 11 |
| Involving a fire | 8 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- acceleration — 11% of this year's complaints, against 4% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: acceleration, harder, car front, sudden acceleration.
- water — 6.3% of this year's complaints, against 1.8% across the other years of this generation (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: water, tail, tail lights, scene.
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.
What owners wrote
THE REVERSE TAIL LIGHTS FILL UP WITH WATER WHEN IT RAINS. I HAVE HAD IT FIXED, BUT 2 YEARS LATER THEY ARE FILLING UP AGAIN.
THE VEHICLE HAS MAJOR LEAK FROM THE FIREWALL DOWN TO THE FLOOR COMPARTMENT. WATER GETS IN BOTH TAIL LIGHTS WHEN IT IS RAINING. I TOOK IT TO THE HONDA DEALER TWICE AND THEY NEVER FIXED THE PROBLEM. HONDA REFUSED ANY OF THESE PROBLEMS. I WILLL NEVER BUY A HONDA…
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
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.
Own a 2010 Honda Odyssey? What happened to yours?
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