2024 Honda Odyssey
This year drew an ordinary 86 complaints for a Honda Odyssey — the model's median is 255. What they were about is the unusual part: 53.5% of them mention stop, against 18% 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 | 86 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 255 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- stop — 53.5% of this year's complaints, against 18% across the other years of this generation (3×).
- restart — 40.7% of this year's complaints, against 10.2% across the other years of this generation (4×).
- starter — 20.9% of this year's complaints, against 6.5% across the other years of this generation (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: starter, stop start, response, releasing.
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
2024 odyssey engine shut off while in drive thru at restaurant. Unshure if auto start stop override was active. Either way the van had to be re started using the start button. Van re started on second or third attempt to re start with start button. This is a r…
On multiple occasions, the idle-stop function engaged at a red light and then either the entire car shut down or the computer froze for a minute or two then restarted. For each incident, we had cars behind us that either nearly hit us when we did not go forwar…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V114000 STEERING 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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