2014 Honda Odyssey
This year drew an ordinary 307 complaints for a Honda Odyssey — the model's median is 242. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.2% of them mention jerk, 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 | 307 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 242 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- jerk — 7.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.1% across the other years of this generation (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: jerk, big, fall out.
- gears — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: gears, every time, changing.
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 car is not shifting properly and lags or hesitates when changing gears. This issue causes the car to jerk, particularly when transitioning from lower gears to higher ones. Additionally, there has recently been a noise coming from the driver's side wheel, a…
WHILE I AM DRIVING THE HONDA ODYSSEY TODAY, EVERYTIME I WAS INCREASING THE SPEED FROM 0, IT WAS GIVING BIG JERK. I STOPPED AND AGAIN INCREASED THE SPEED, SAME PROBLEM. I TURNED IT OFF AND RESTARTED, THEN IT WAS FINE. SAME THING HAPPENED MANY TIMES IN PAST, BUT…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V170000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V725000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V933000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V175000 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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