2023 Honda Odyssey
This year drew an ordinary 93 complaints for a Honda Odyssey — the model's median is 255. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.6% of them mention fault, against 1.3% 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 | 93 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 255 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- fault — 8.6% of this year's complaints, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation (6.5×). Owners wrote it as: fault, came stop.
- glass — 8.6% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the other years of this generation (5.9×). Owners wrote it as: glass, sunroof, shattered.
- passengers — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the other years of this generation (3×).
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
while driving 30 MPH, the contact heard an abnormally loud sound. The contact became aware that the sunroof had shattered, leaving the inside of the vehicle covered in glass. No warning light was illuminated. The vehicle was taken to a dealer. The vehicle had…
I was driving down the highway at highway speeds with no other vehicles around me and with my air conditioning on and the sunroof exploded.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V431000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 24V114000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 25V877000 EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 26V332000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
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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