2015 Honda Odyssey
This year drew an ordinary 203 complaints for a Honda Odyssey — the model's median is 255. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.4% of them mention shifting, against 1.7% 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 | 203 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 255 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- shifting — 7.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the other years of this generation (4.3×). Owners wrote it as: shifting, gears.
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
IN 2018 MY 2015 HONDA VAN HAD PROBLEMS SHIFTING GEARS. I WAS GOING ABOUT 25MPH WHEN THERE WAS A JOLT AND THE CAR SHOOK FROM THE TRANSMISSION SHIFTING GEARS. I TOOK THE CAR IN AN WAS TOLD THE COMPUTER NEEDED TO BE UPDATED. THE UPDATE OCCURRED AND THE VAN RAN FI…
PURCHASED CAR NEW IN 2015, HONDA ODYSSEY, HAVE HAD SHIFTING ISSUES BETWEEN GEARS JERKING. PROBLEM STARTED WITHIN PAST YEAR, SEEMS TO GET A LITTLE WORSE AND YOU CAN FEEL IT SHIFTING ROUGH. I SEE VARIOUS OTHERS WITH SAME ISSUE, COULD THIS BE A FUTURE RECALL I HO…
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.
- 16V417000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 25V876000 EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY 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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