2019 Honda Odyssey
Complaints about this year name fuel far more often than the other years of this generation — 17% of them, about 4× the usual rate of 3.9%.
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 | 921 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 242 |
| Involving a crash | 15 |
| Involving a fire | 7 |
| Recalls | 20 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- fuel — 17% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the other years of this generation (4.5×).
- acceleration — 6.9% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the other years of this generation (4.6×). Owners wrote it as: acceleration, hesitation, delayed.
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.
Also unusual this year
- camera — 20% of complaints, 3× usual
- transmission — 13% of complaints, 4× usual
- system gasoline — 7% of complaints, 16× usual
What owners wrote
We started having electrical problems, camera does not work, radio does not work. Took it into Honda dealership and said nothing was working because we needed to replace the fuel pump and a bunch of other things for almost $3000.
Dash warning lights for engine code P2019 associated with the fuel injectors come on and off intermittently. Honda has said my injectors are not under recall despite other 2019 odysseys having been recalled for this same issue. Transmission has expired hesitat…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V439000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 20V437000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 20V440000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 20V438000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 20V066000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 21V215000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 21V010000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 18V664000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 20. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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