Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | |||
| 10/24/2012 | 70000 | ||
| When reaching 2000 rpm's, during cooler weather, the odyssey makes a very loud humming/vibration. it appears to be coming from the engine comparment under carriage. | |||
| 10/01/2012 | 34400 | 1 | |
| About 2 weeks ago...october 1, 2012, i took my honda back in to honda. my car had been accelerating on its own. i left my honda there for 3 days, at which point they determined there was nothing wrong with it, and they would like me to bring it back in to drive it with them. there is 100% something wrong with my van again! in addition a few days ago, i was putting books in the back of my van, and the hatch struts failed, and the back hatch door fell down on my head. *tr | |||
| 10/01/2012 | 34400 | ||
| About 2 weeks ago...october 1, 2012, i took my honda back in to honda. my car had been accelerating on its own. i left my honda there for 3 days, at which point they determined there was nothing wrong with it, and they would like me to bring it back in to drive it with them. there is 100% something wrong with my van again! in addition a few days ago, i was putting books in the back of my van, and the hatch struts failed, and the back hatch door fell down on my head. | |||
| 05/03/2012 | |||
| Tl- the contact owns a 2008 honda odyssey. the contact was entering a parking space and as the brakes were applied, the vehicle abnormally accelerated. she was able to place the vehicle in park and turn the vehicle off to stop the failure. the vehicle was towed to the contact?s residence and was not taken to the dealer for repairs or inspection of the failure. the manufacturer was not contacted. the failure and current mileages were not available. the vin was not available. kmj | |||
| 05/03/2012 | |||
| Tl- the contact owns a 2008 honda odyssey. the contact was entering a parking space and as the brakes were applied, the vehicle abnormally accelerated. she was able to place the vehicle in park and turn the vehicle off to stop the failure. the vehicle was towed to the contact | |||
| 05/03/2012 | |||
| Tl- the contact owns a 2008 honda odyssey. the contact stated while braking her vehicle in a parking space her vehicle accelerated on its own. she was able to place the vehicle on park and turn off the vehicle. the vehicle was towed. the vehicle was not taken to the dealer. the manufacturer was not contacted.the mileage was not available.the vehicle vin was not availablejp | |||
| 12/17/2011 | 70400 | ||
| Tl- the contact owns a 2008 honda odyssey. the contact stated that as she removed her foot from the brake pedal to attempt to proceed from a traffic stop, the vehicle abnormally accelerated to 60 mph. the accelerator pedal independently moved toward the floorboard and became stuck. in addition, the steering wheel seized abnormally. the contact was able to shift gears and remove the key from the ignition but the vehicle continued to accelerate. after applying the emergency brake and continually depressing the brake pedal with extreme force, the vehicle stalled. the contact was able to restart the vehicle and continued to drive without further issues. the vehicle was taken to the dealer for diagnostic testing where the technician was unable to diagnose the failure. the vehicle was not repaired. the approximate failure mileage was 70,400. kmj | |||
| 12/17/2011 | 70400 | ||
| Tl- the contact owns a 2008 honda odyssey. while stopped at a stop sign the vehicle accelerated on its own to 60 mph when the contact removed her foot from the brake pedal. the accelerator pedal dropped to the floor and the steering wheel locked. the contact was able to change gears and remove the key from the ignition but the vehicle continued to accelerate. after applying the emergency brake and continually depressing the brake pedal with extreme force the vehicle suddenly stalled. the contact was able to start the vehicle and continue to drive without further problems. the vehicle was taken to the dealer for diagnostic. the technician was unable to diagnose the failure. the vehicle was not repaired. the approximate failure mileage was 70,400. ds | |||
| 01/05/2011 | 38800 | ||
| Tl - the contact owns a 2008 honda odyssey. the contact stated that while having her foot on the brake the vehicle accelerated. the first time the vehicle was taken to the dealer and they were unable to duplicated the failure. the failure occurred a second time, the contact impacted another vehicle and it had to be towed to the dealer. the contact was not injured. a police report was filed. the manufacturer was contacted, they informed her that if the dealer was unable to diagnosed the failure there was nothing they can do except send someone to inspected the vehicle. the vehicle was not repaired. the failure mileage was 38,800 and the current mileage was 39,000. pm | |||
| 05/22/2010 | 27780 | ||
| Accerator sticks on when applying brakes | |||
| 05/29/2010 | 15400 | ||
| While stopped at a light my 2008 honda odyssey's engine began accelerating with the rpm indicator exceeding 7000 rpms. i had to stand on the brake and shift into park to avoid any further movement. as the engine was still racing i turned the ignition off. i restarted the car in park and the engine again accelerated past 7000 rpms. once again i shut the engine off, waited a while longer and restarted without incident. the car has under 16,000 miles and just prior to the incident was driven on the highway but had travelled about 4 miles from the exit point. cruise was on but not engaged since leaving the highway. | |||
| 06/12/2009 | 0 | ||
| Tl* the contact owns a 2008 honda odyssey. the contact stated that while driving at speeds of 20 mph, the vehicle would accelerate without driver intent. when depressed, the brake pedal would fall 1-inch below the accelerator pedal, causing the contact to simultaneously depress both pedals without intent. the dealer stated that he could find no failures in the vehicle. there were no repairs made to the vehicle. the failure mileage was unknown and the current mileage was 11,457. updated 05/07/10. *lj | |||
| 11/12/2009 | 4250 | 1 | |
| I own a 2008 honda odyssey purchased in 2009. a couple of months after we purchased the brand new mini van, the accelerator /throttle stuck as i was driving my children to school, ( the throttle kicked on somewhere between 30 & 40 mph). the brakes were not slowing us down much at all as the engine raced ( foot was off the gas pedal) and we nearly crashed in the elementary school parking lot. ( i put the van in neutral and turned off the engine along with the emergency brake to get us to stop.) we towed the car to honda & they had it for four days. i did not want it back ! honda said they could not reproduce the problem and that the computer sensors didn't track the disturbance. we ended up paying out of our own pocket for a completely new computer system to be installed. ( we have the old computer part.) we reported this to honda. i am writing to tell you about this because toyota is not the only car with an acceleration problem ! our honda dealer swept it under the rug but i am sure there has to be other honda owners who have had the life threatening same issue. *tr | |||
| 12/01/2009 | 20384 | 1 | |
| 2008 honda odyssey accelerated suddenly.*cw the consumer she crashed into a guardrail. *jb | |||
| 01/22/2010 | 45000 | ||
| Tl*the contact owns a 2008 honda odyssey. whenever the contact drove the vehicle she had to apply pressure to the accelerator pedal; although, the vehicle failed to increase in speed beyond approximately 25 mph. the dealer replaced the torque converter replaced; however, the failure continued to occur. there were no prior warnings. the current and failure mileages were 45000. | |||