2022 Honda Odyssey
This year drew an ordinary 128 complaints for a Honda Odyssey — the model's median is 255. What they were about is the unusual part: 14.8% of them mention put, against 5.6% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 3 of the Honda Odyssey, which began in 2018. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 128 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 255 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 9 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- put — 14.8% of this year's complaints, against 5.6% across the other years of this generation (2.6×).
- deployed — 12.5% of this year's complaints, against 4.3% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: deployed, airbags, frame, curtain.
- mirror — 7.8% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the other years of this generation (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: mirror, vibration, mirrors.
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
All passenger side curtain airbags deployed after going over a pothole, despite no tire/wheel/frame damage to the car according to the Honda dealership. No collision occurred, only going over a pothole. SRS is available for review from dealership. Vehicle has…
The right side airbags deployed without any damage or accident occurring to the vehicle. The safety of the driver and backseat passenger was put at risk because the airbags deployed without any warning and completely disabled the vehicle forcing us to the side…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V768000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
- 21V432000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V174000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 23V431000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 24V064000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 25V877000 EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 26V227000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 9. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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