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My wife and kids were at the store. The driver rear door opened just fine and closed. She came out put the kids in the car. She tried to close the door it popped right off the track. Worst part is it was severe thunder storms so family was stranded until my brother could get there. This is unacceptable! thankful she wasn't driving
Transmission currently vehicle has less than 88,000 miles and transmission is about ready to fail completely hard gear shifting and when shifting from park to reverse or drive transmission makes a big metal clunk and harsh movement of vehicle
Passenger' sliding door alarm sounded when driving was not open. Battery repeatedly being drained. Dealer removed sliding door closer motor (!) now door will not stay closed and if you force it closed alarm will go off randomly. This problem with power doors is all over the internet. Please help.
- Perkasie, PA, USA
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We bought a car yesterday 05/15 from evergreen motors in Tacoma and he claimed that the car had small problems but today we find that it has transmission serious problems we bring it back and he refused to help us and asked us impoliteley to leave
Air bag sign is on and stays on. Also the door on the passenger and driver sliding will not close or open properly. They open when driving automatically. It has been a problem for so long but my mom has not reported. The paint has chip away and we did not get a recall notice. I checked and now it is too late.
2005 Honda Odyssey '-the sliding doors fell off !!!!!!. I researched and discovered a numerous amount of problems with the sliding doors. There is a recall for newer models and they too have the exact same issues. The problems range from a grinding noise, auto doors not opening completely than closing. To the back of the door slightly opening then the beeping indicator is constantly on while driving. The battery is being drained because the doors never close completely. The center rollers are cheap plastic which I believe causes the grinding noise. Once they wear out it gets worse. These are not some isolated complaints!! there are too many others with every year of the Odyssey that have these issues !! and now I finally see a recall. All theses issues have happened during different times. Some while stationary. Some while driving. The worst one where the door literally fell off was parked in my drive way. (thank god) I took it to the dealership and they diagnosed the problem and rigged my door but it is not safe to drive. Why was this not recalled a long time ago?? there are too many complaints to ignore this !! the newer models have been recalled for this exact problem. I owned an Accord for 14 years over 300,000 miles. The best car I ever had. Than bought this 2005 Odyssey and just recently purchased a 2018 CRV ex. It's wrong that Honda does not back up their reputation.
My rear power sliding doors have faulty door latches. While in gear I must turn off the power to my doors to avoid a very loud constant beep. This however does not help to keep my doors closed. While driving both rear doors have opened at least 25 times within the past week while my children were in the vehicle! it causes my lights to come on and my doors will not lock. I have even tried to keep my doors locked and they still open up regardless. This began happening on December 22, 2018 and has continued daily since.
When engine is off and I lock the doors by remote control, after few minutes safety alarm will be active ( lighting started to on/off for 120 second and whistle also continues active).
I just seen this recall: Honda will recall about 122,000 of its 2018 and 2019 model year Odyssey minivans due to the risk that its sliding doors could open while the vehicle is in use. In documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the automaker says that the rear latches on the power sliding door might "generate higher than normal friction, causing them to stick." If this were to happen, the doors could be prevented from closing all the way which would obviously increase the chances they fly open while the vehicle is in use. My 2005 Honda Odyssey's sliding doors do the same thing yet there hasn't been a recall on it.
Driving the 2005 Honda Odyssey power shuts off to the entire vehicle. You didn't turn the vehicle off and turn it back on it will start. When there is a heavy load on the vehicle the car will stall. The power shut off happens intermittently and even blinkers will not work. This is driving in local and highway the car stops.
This has happened to me 3 times in the last 3 months. I was parked in my driveway with moter running sat there while finishing something, having my foot on the break went to put my van in park after which took my foot off the brake and my van lunges forward. I stomped on my brakes barely in time to not go through my garage door. #2 I was parked much like #1 in front of my gym foot on the brake went to put the van in park and it lunges forward, I stomped on the brake in time to not go all the way up the crub. Still not understanding what was happening. #3 was a week ago. I was turning left into a parking space almost a U-turn and my van excellerated so fast I was headed straight for a concrete pillar, was able to stomp on the brakes coming way to close to hitting the pillar. I took the Odyssey into Honda they ran their tests and found nothing wrong. They just thought I must have slipped of the brake. Well that's not what happened in either of the 3 times. Very scary and drive very cautious now. Stop a car length from other cars from crosswalks park with my emergency brake on and excellerate slowly! praying it doesn't happen again, my 93 year old mother was in the passenger seat on #3 and scared her to death!
Takata recall - the power sliding doors come open while driving down the road on their own. At first the right rear door power stopped working and the same day the door came open driving down the road. That is not good with children under 8 years of age!!!!! now the left rear door still has the automatic power working but has problems with coming open driving down the road.
The air bag light is on and can't find out why. It comes on when someone leaves or enters the car and does when car is turned on and stays on after the lights are done from starting
The sliding doors on both side of my odessey van could not be opened. They always stuck and hard to open. My odessey van's left sliding door could not open for years. And my right sliding door also could not be opened. On 8/29/17, my son tried to open the right sliding door through the outside and it fell off/fell down and injured my son on his feet that ended up in the emergency hospital. I am filing this complaint to ask your Agency to further investigate on this matter and further protect other consumer from injury. I truly believe this is a manufacture defect and it needs to be recalled and fixed. The incident happened while it was parked on the parking lot. If the car is on the road or on motion then it would be more dangerous and cause car accident.
Burning smell and smoke started to come out on the middle of our drive on I-95 N back from va to home in NJ. We were with family including 12 year old son, we had to pull the van on the shoulder (barely any). We had to call aaa to get our van towed to NJ about 140 miles. The mechanic tells us that the transmission is failed and the cost would be around $4000. Our concern is the safety and american Honda failed to help us to cover the cost of transmission issue.
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- Bakersfield, CA, USA