2009 Honda Odyssey
This year drew an ordinary 198 complaints for a Honda Odyssey — the model's median is 255. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.1% of them mention body, against 1.9% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Honda Odyssey, which began in 2005 and ran to 2010. 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 | 198 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 255 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- body — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the other years of this generation (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: body, device, structure.
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 REAR LIFTGATE WOULD NOT REMAIN IN A SECURED UPWARD POSITION WHENEVER ACCESSING THE TRUNK AREA AND THE LIFT GATE WOULD CLOSE ABRUPTLY. THERE WAS A RECALL UNDER NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER 12V062000 (STRUCTURE: BODY: HATCHBACK/LIFTGATE: SUPPORT DEVICE ); HOWEVE…
THE REAR LIFT GATE FAILED TO REMAIN OPEN BECAUSE THE GAS FILLED STRUTS FAILED. AN AUTHORIZED DEALER WAS NOTIFIED AND STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALL ASSOCIATED WITH NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER 12V062000 (STRUCTURE: BODY: HATCHBACK/LIFTGATE:…
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
- 12V062000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 09V057000 PARKING BRAKE 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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