2007 Honda Odyssey

7 TIMES(3 TIMES ON HIGHWAY, 4 TIMES ON SMALL ROADS) MY 2007 HONDA ODYSSEY EXL FAILED TO STOP WHEN BRAKES WERE APPLIED. I WOULD APPLY BRAKES AND THE VAN WOULD KEEP GOING. MOST OF THESE TIMES WHEN THE BRAKES ARE APPLIED AGAIN THE VAN WOULD STOP. I TOOK THE CAR NUMEROUS TIMES TO THE DEALERSHIP AND THEY SAID THEY COULDNT REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM. BUT THEY REPLACED THE BRAKE MASTER CYLINDER 2 TIMES(ONCE FOR DEFECTIVE MASTER CYLINDER AND ONCE FOR INCORRECTINSTALLATION). FINALLY THEY ASKED ME TO TRADE THE VAN FOR A DIFFERENT ONE. THEY PAID $2500 FOR THE HAZZLE AND I HAD TO PAY $5500.. BEACUSE OF THE SAFETY CONCERN I TRADED MY VAN TO GET A NEW ONE. *TR

2007 ODYSSEY, BOUGHT ON 18 JAN 2010 FROM DCH ACADEMY HONDA, OLD BRIDGE, NJ AS A USED VEHICLE. ON THE SAME WEEK REPORTED THAT THERE IS PROBLEM IN TRANSMISSION. WHEN ACCELERATING AT 40MPH TO 50MPH, THERE A VIBRATION OBSERVED CONSTANTLY AND TRANSMISSION IS GETTING LOCKED AT 1.5RPM AND NOT GETTING ACCELERATING. WHEN IT GOT REPORTED TO USED CAR DEPARTMENT, MECHANIC WAS KEEP ON SAYING THAT IT IS INTENDED BEHAVIOR WHILE ACCELERATING AND BECAUSE OF BIG VEHICLE. I WAS NOT AGREED AND CONCERN WAS PASSED ON TO THE SERVICE MANAGER IN SERVICE DEPARTMENT. SERVICE MANAGER AFTER GOING THROUGH THE TEST DRIVE AND SERVICE BULLETINS, HE IS TOLD THAT THERE NEED TO BE SOFTWARE UPGRADE NEEDED TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. SOFTWARE UPGRADE IS PERFORMED ON THIS VEHICLE. NOW THE VIBRATION IS LITTLE BIT REDUCED, BUT THE PROBLEM IS STILL EXISTS. AGAIN I HAD AN APPOINTMENT FOR TEST DRIVE AND THERE WERE TWO SERVICE MANAGERS TESTED THIS VEHICLE AND AFTER REGRESSIVE TEST ALONG WITH THEM, THEY AGREED THAT VIBRATION AT 40-50MPH SPEED AND 1.5-2RPM TORQUE. NOW THEY SAID THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH TORQUE CONVERTER IN AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION AND NEED TO BE REPLACED AFTER GETTING THE PART FROM HONDA. I AM NOT TOTALLY CONFIDENT THAT REPLACEMENT OF TORQUE CONVERTER CAN SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. THEY ARE JUST MAKING SOME PATCH TO TEMPORARILY MASK THE MAIN PROBLEM IN TRANSMISSION. IT WILL COST ME MORE ONCE MY POWER TRAIN WARRANTY GETS EXPIRED. THIS PROBLEM MAY CAUSE FAILURE OF TRANSMISSION AND MAY CAUSE ACCIDENT AT RUN TIME. *TR

2007 HONDA ODYSSEY. FULL TRANSMISSION REPLACED AFTER ONLY APPROXIMATELY 27,000 MILES. I NOW HAVE APPROXIMATELY 33,500 MILES AND SAME PROBLEM WITH TRANSMISSION HAS BEGUN. NOTICEABLE FLUTTER AT APPROXIMATELY 35 MPH AND A SERIOUS SHIFTING DOWNGRADE AT 20 MPH WHEN FOOT IS OFF ACCELERATOR. WAS TOLD BY DEALER THEY WOULD UPDATE COMPUTER AND IF THAT DOESN'T WORK THEN THEY WOULD MOST LIKELY HAVE TO REPLACE THE TORQUE CONVERSION. *TR

2 COMPLAINTS, FIRST ONE IS THE POWER STEERING PUMP WENT AT 35000 MILES. HONDA DID REPLACE IT UNDER WARRANTY. BUT THE PUMP IN NOW AT 60,000 MILES IS GOING BAD. SECOND COMPLAINT, THE FRONT LEFT HUB BEARING WENT BAD WAY TOO EARLY, 50,000 MILES. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS PROBLEM. CALLED HONDA AND THE LOCAL HONDA DEALERSHIP SEVERAL TIMES AND RECEIVED NO HELP AT ALL. THEY WOULD NOT COVER THIS PART OR THE WORKMANSHIP TO REPLACE IT. NOW AT 65,000 MILES THE VAN IS MAKING THE SAME NOISE SO I AM ASSUMING ANOTHER HUB BEARING IS GOING BAD. I HAVE NEVER PURCHASE A HONDA BEFORE THIS ONE, I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER. *TR

1. DRIVER IN STOP AND GO TRAFFIC APPLIED BRAKES TO STOP VEHICLE, HOWEVER, VEHICLE DID NOT STOP IN TIME AND RESULTED IN A REAR-END COLLISION. THIS OCCURRED ON 11/30/2009. 2. VEHICLE OWNER REPORTED THAT WHEN THE BRAKE PEDAL IS DEPRESSED, THERE IS A LACK OF RESPONSE. BRAKING TIME AND DISTANCE BECAME SIGNIFICANTLY LONGER THAN NORMAL. THIS PROBLEM WAS FIRST OBSERVED BY THE VEHICLE OWNER ON 11/27/2009, HOWEVER, THE DRIVER WAS ABLE TO STOP IN TIME ON THAT DATE, AND THE VEHICLE THEN FUNCTIONED NORMALLY UNTIL THE COLLISION THAT OCCURRED ON 11/30/2009. 3. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE ACCIDENT ON 11/30/2009, THE VEHICLE OWNER REPORTED THAT THE VEHICLE BRAKES HAD FAILED TO THE AUTO INSURANCE CARRIER, AND TOOK THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALERSHIP FOR A DIAGNOSIS. UPON ARRIVING AT THE DEALERSHIP, THE SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT HONDA WAS AWARE OF THE BRAKING ISSUE, AND EVEN THOUGH THE VEHICLE WAS OUT OF WARRANTY, THEY OFFERED TO COVER THE REPAIR AT 90% AND INSTRUCTED THE OWNER TO COLLECT THE REMAINING 10% OF THE COST DIRECTLY FROM HONDA. THE DEALERSHIP DIAGNOSIS WAS THAT THE ABS MODULE WAS LEAKING AIR INTO THE BRAKE SYSTEM. ALL OTHER BRAKING COMPONENTS WERE OPERATIONAL. THE DEALERSHIP REPLACED THE ABS MODULE, AND BLED THE BRAKE SYSTEM TO REMEDY THE PROBLEM. THE OLD PARTS WERE DISPOSED OF BY THE DEALERSHIP PRIOR TO INSURANCE CARRIER BEING AWARE OF ISSUE. SERVICE RECORDS INDICATE THAT THE VEHICLE OWNER HAD VEHICLE BRAKING SYSTEM MAINTENANCE COMPLETED ON 8/19/2009 AT THE SAME DEALERSHIP. *TR

TRANSMISSION JUDDERING AND HESITATES BETWEEN 30MPH-50MPH. THIS HAS BECOME A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION WHEN ENTERING THE HIGHWAY OR MAKING MANEUVERS THAT REQUIRES A QUICK INCREASE IN SPEED. THE HESITATION AND JUDDERING CREATES A VERY LARGE VIBRATION THROUGH THE ENTIRE MINIVAN. OUR ODYSSEY HAS HAD TWO SOFTWARE UPDATES AND IT APPEARS THE TORQUE CONVERTER WILL NEED TO BE REPLACED NEXT. THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN HAPPENING SINCE IT HAD 5,000 MILES. WE COMPLAINED ABOUT THIS ISSUE AT THE 10K SERVICE, HOWEVER, THE DEALER SAID THAT THE ISSUE WAS PROBABLY FUEL RELATED. HOWEVER, ONE SERVICE MANAGER AT A LOCAL HONDA DEALERSHIP TOLD US IT IS MOST LIKELY A TRANSMISSION ISSUE AND THERE WAS NO KNOWN FIX FOR IT AT THE TIME. SINCE THEN HONDA HAS IDENTIFIED TWO SOFTWARE UPDATES THAT ARE REQUIRED TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM AND IF THIS DOES NOT FIX THE PROBLEM THE TORQUE CONVERTER WILL NEED TO BE REPLACED NEXT. WHAT WE HAVE ALSO BEEN TOLD IS THAT IF THE TORQUE CONVERTER HAS BEEN BAD FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME IT WILL START PUTTING OUT METAL SHAVINGS THAT WILL GET INTO THE GEARS OF THE TRANSMISSION, WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY DAMAGE THE TRANSMISSION. HOWEVER, HONDA WILL NOT COVER A NEW TRANSMISSION UNLESS IT CAN BE PROVEN THAT THE TRANSMISSION IS DAMAGED, THIS IS VERY DIFFICULT TO DO UNLESS THE TRANSMISSION IS TRULY SHOWING SIGNS OF FAILURE OR ENOUGH OIL SHAVINGS CAN BE FOUND IN THE TRANSMISSION OIL. IT SEEMS THAT THE CONSENSUS IS THAT ODYSSEYS WITH THIS PROBLEM WILL MOST LIKELY HAVE A SHORTEN LIFE SPAN OF THEIR TRANSMISSION. WE HAVE LESS THAN 40,000 MILES ON OUR ODYSSEY. MY OPINION IS HONDA IS TRYING PATCH A PROBLEM THAT REQUIRES MAJOR SURGERY WITH BAND AIDS, HOPING THEY CAN GET BEYOND THEIR REQUIRED RESPONSIBILITY UNDER THE POWERTRAIN WARRANTY. I GUESS UNTIL SOMEONE GETS HURT OR KILLED, THIS WILL NOT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. THIS IS A SHAME WE HAVE OWNED A HONDA OR ACURA FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS AND THEIR REPUTATION HAS BEEN EXCELLENT. *TR

2007 HONDA ODYSSEY. WHEN AT A SLOW SPEED, THE POWER STEERING PUMP MAY NOT BE OPERATING AT POWER AND YOU LOSE ALMOST ALL, IF NOT ALL POWER STEERING ASSIST. IT HAS NEARLY CAUSED AN ACCIDENT FOR ME TURNING INTO DRIVEWAYS AND PARKING SPACES MULTIPLE TIMES ALREADY (AT LEAST 3 INCIDENTS THAT WERE NEAR-MISSES). UPON REPORTING THE ISSUE TO HONDA, IT WAS DIFFICULT TO DUPLICATE IN A LIMITED TEST AND I WAS SIMPLY TOLD THAT WAS "NORMAL" IN MY VEHICLE. THERE ARE DOZENS OF REPORTS WITH OVER A HUNDRED PEOPLE JUST IN ONE INTERNET FORUM FOR HONDA ODYSSEY OWNERS AND THIS IS APPARENTLY AN ISSUE WITH 2006 THROUGH 2009 MODELS, AND POSSIBLY EVEN 2010 MODELS. HONDA HAS REPORTEDLY REPLACED POWER STEERING PUMPS, POWER STEERING FLUID RESERVOIRS, AND A FEW OTHER COMPONENTS FOR THOSE WHO HAD WARRANTIES, ALTHOUGH IT APPEARS THE ISSUE REMAINS OR IS ONLY RESOLVED UNTIL 10K - 20K MILES LATER WHEN IT RESURFACES. *TR

REAR BRAKES MAKE CONSTANT GRINDING/SQUEAKING. KNOWN PROBLEM TO HONDA FOR ALL 2005-2008 MODELS OF ODYSSEY VAN. HONDA CLAIMS THERE IS NO FIX, BUT THEY'RE AWARE OF THE ISSUE. WITH THE BRAKES MAKING NOISE ALL THE TIME, IT MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR CONSUMERS TO DETERMINE IF THERE'S ACTUALLY A PROBLEM, WHICH MAY LEAD TO PEOPLE IGNORING ACTUAL BRAKE ISSUES. I OWN A 2007, AND PERSONALLY KNOW OF PEOPLE WITH 2005 AND 2006 MODELS THAT HAVE THE SAME EXACT PROBLEM. IN FACT, EVERYONE I MEET THAT DRIVES ONE, I ASK IF THEY HAVE THE PROBLEM AND THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS YES. I FIND IT AMAZING THAT HONDA KNOWS ABOUT A PROBLEM THAT IS SO WIDESPREAD AND AFFECTS A MAJOR SAFETY FUNCTION ON THE VEHICLES, BUT NO ONE DOES ANYTHING ABOUT IT. *TR

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2007 HONDA ODYSSEY. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS LUNGING FORWARD AND HESITATED WHEN SHE SHIFTED GEARS WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 45 TO 55 MPH. SHE NOTICED A LOW PITCH NOISE AND THE STEERING WHEEL VIBRATED ALONG WITH THE DELAY IN SHIFTING GEARS. THE FAILURE HAS OCCURRED REPEATEDLY SINCE THE VEHICLE WAS PURCHASED IN OCTOBER 2007. SHE TOOK THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALER WHO STATED THAT HER HARMONICS WAS THE EXPLANATION FOR THE NOISE BUT DID NOT INSPECT THE VEHICLE. SHE HAD NOT SPOKEN WITH THE MANUFACTURER TO-DATE. THE VEHICLE HAD NOT BEEN REPAIRED AT THE TIME OF THE COMPLAINT. THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 15,000. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 200.