2013 Honda Odyssey
This year drew an ordinary 210 complaints for a Honda Odyssey — the model's median is 255. What they were about is the unusual part: 6.2% of them mention asked, against 2.1% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Honda Odyssey, which began in 2011 and ran to 2017. 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 | 210 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 255 |
| Involving a crash | 17 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 21.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- asked — 6.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.1% across the other years of this generation (3×). Owners wrote it as: asked, problem started.
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
BEFORE MY CAR REACHED THE 20,000 MILE AGE THE CAR STARTS TO SHAKE WHEN HITTING THE BRAKES WHEN DECELERATING AT 50-30 MPH SPEED. ASKED THE DEALERSHIP IF THEY CAN CHECK WHAT IS WRONG. THEY SAID THE BRAKES ARE FINE. I THOUGHT IT WAS A WHEEL BALANCE ISSUE BUT THE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V725000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V933000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 13V382000 ENGINE Fixed free of charge.
- 13V143000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 13V016000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE 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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