2020 Honda Odyssey
This year drew an ordinary 445 complaints for a Honda Odyssey — the model's median is 242. What they were about is the unusual part: 36.9% of them mention camera, against 7.6% across the other years of this generation.
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 | 445 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 242 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 14 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- camera — 36.9% of this year's complaints, against 7.6% across the other years of this generation (4.9×).
- control — 27.2% of this year's complaints, against 10.5% across the other years of this generation (2.6×).
- high — 11.9% of this year's complaints, against 4.7% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: high, widespread, beams, high beams.
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 camera sensor is malfunctioning. It is affecting the collision sensor and lane assist sensor. Also adaptive cruise control, road mitigation and auto high beams. My vehicle is scheduled for diagnostics with a dealer, but seeing the many, many cases and vide…
For the last few days I turn on my car and get alert lights that I have problems with: the ACC, LKAS, collision mitigation, road departure mitigation systems and auto high beams. From online Honda forums I can see that many people have had these problems and i…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V438000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 20V440000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 20V439000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 20V437000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES Fixed free of charge.
- 20V066000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 21V010000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 23V158000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V174000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 14. 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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