Honda Odyssey

"Does not work Honda says they will have a fix this month. Is a problem with this system,software, that this model has in general"

"The Andoid Auto display crashes when the Waze app stops navigating. The dealer is unable to update the dash panel to fix it."

"Apple Car Play works intermittently. Very buggy. Extremely unreliable"

"as many know, hands-free is the law in many states, including Georgia, where I live. There is some problem between Apple and Honda on teh operation of handsfree devices. Apple CarPlay works when it wants to. Bluetooth can be just as bad. Honda has replaced our headunit once, still had issues. now Honda is pointing fingers at Apple and Panasonic (OEM supplier of headunit). Not working as handsfree is not an inconvenience. I needed to call 911 to report a dangerous driver and the unit switched from CarPlay to BT to nothing twice. not acceptable. Still not fixed after 5months as an open case w honda"

"When you arrive at your destination or end navigation you get an error message unfortunately com.auto.honda.navigation service has stopped. You have to tap OK three times before the message goes away."

"Terrible integration by requiring Honda Link app which is buggy. Lots of lag and dropped connections with iPhone 6 when apps work fine on the phone. Text msgs or phone calls interrupt the running app on the display and requires touching the phone to deselect/launch the app to display again."

"Apple CarPlay would intermittently connect. Honda simply said it was an Apple problem and refused to do any real investigation."

"The lines on the backup camera do not appear until about 1 minute after the car is started. Also, the clock and the radio are similarly delayed. The dealer tells me this is normal."

"This camera is placed so that the sun hits the lens and Dazzles the camera making it impossible to see what is behind me. The lens is also in a location that picks up moisture when it is raining. Drops on the lens make the camera useless. It's placed in the worst possible location."

"Heard a pop while driving in heavy rain in july 2018, lost almost all electronics in the car for about 2 days until I located a master fuse and replaced it, everything worked, however, in below freezing weather the backup camera showed a black screen when backing up several times"

"the camera itself works fine until it rains and water obscures the lens or the sun hits the lens. The directional markers however, take too long to appear and I am ofter done backing up when the show up. The front proximity sensors do not work. Sometimes I get false warnings but when approaching objects, No warning at all. When backing, the rear cross traffic warning works well and I am very happy with that."

"Optional backup beepers were installed, but kept giving false alarms. After repair, beepers are still overly sensitive."

"Screen flashes when backing up sometimes"

"When display goes blank, the backup system does not work"

"Camera replaced on warranty"

"Same complaint as last time. Once this year after it rained and dropped to around 20 degrees and the van was left out of the garage overnight the backup camera failed to activate when backing the vehicle up. After the van was run for about 2 hours and the outside temperatures went up the camera began to work again."

"In time, the system catches up with itself and does what It is prompted to do."

"cabin watch feature not working properly"

"Screen goes blank, message says hold down power for 2 seconds. Still freezes after holding power button. Had to take to dealer for service. Changed display, all works now."

"At 510 miles Honda Touch display screen froze, just showing the Honda logo. All functions became inoperable for the remainder of the day- no radio, Bluetooth, phone, etc. The next morning system appeared to be working normally. However, not sure I’d malfunction will return."

"Known issue with using remote start and the audio/display system not working during winter months. Hasn’t happened since warmer spring weather."

"The entertainment display would sometimes not come on when I started the car. Instead I got a message that the anti-theft system was activated and that I had to push the power button for 2 seconds. It would come on after I held the power button. Honda is aware of problem."

"According to the dealer it was a programming issue and that Honda would send an update to the car directly."

"Immediately had problems with bluetooth telephone interface. I could hear well in the car but callers could not understand me, audio was garbled. 5 trips to dealer, no resolution. Improvement with latest model Samsung phone. Waited months for software update. More problems after that. Screen went dark multiple times. Front passenger door wouldn't unlock. Screen refused to switch apps, like from phone back to navigation. Screen froze several times, would not clear until car was cut off and restarted. Did not like Android Auto. Think much of problem was a hardware problem in computer but dealer refused to consider. Advanced technology but not executed well. Too many problems, and dependent on factory (American Honda) to resolve them. After 7 months of problems, traded vehicle on a new Toyota Sienna. Did not trust vehicle."

"The display goes blank. Which means I cannot use the back-up camera, navigation, clock, or radio. The dealer has tried to fix it 4 times with no success. Factory exert tried to fix it with no success. It is in now to be fixed, again"

"Infotainment screen mysteriously reboots from time to time while driving"

"There is a Honda Music store which is to download music from my iPhone - has never worked. Says it is wrong device."

"iPod works periodically. Fails to connect often. My IPod is listed in ownership handbook as a current model. Problem started soon after I bought the van."

"Radio not available sometimes"

"Began suddenly No audio/Nav/Cameras at all could drive car. Repeated return to Dealer then Head unit replaced, a multi-day process"

"In general the system is not as user friendly as our previous Odyssey. Programing the system for interstates is not an option. On a extended trip of over a 1000 miles it kept trying to detour us off the interstates onto single lane roads. We called Honda corporate and left a call back which was never returned."

"On delivery the GPS system was silent, giving no directions. It was then, after considerable dealer effort, discovered to have been caused by Honda’s failure to install the main centre dash speaker, rendering the GPS system mute."

"Garmen GPS cant find anything gets me lost send me anywhere randomly almost like it wants to get me lost"

"When zooming in on navigation, it stays on the zoom screen constantly and doesn't readjust to display your vehicles location. The traffic information is also only somewhat accurate, mainly on the main highway and not all the surface streets."

"I was not able to update the Garmin maps in the Honda navigation system using an iMac desktop computer. I was able the update the maps using a PC desktop computer. It was a common problem that Garmin was aware of. Garmin says it has been fixed but there have been no new maps yet to update."

"it is dangerous to put a complicated system on the road that two sales people could not figure out back at the dealership. i left for the south two weeks after the purchase. i have purchased 16 new honda autos in the last 33 years but this is the last one ever."

"The roads disappear from the screen. There is no scale on the screen. The system does not offer the option to flag and dysplay preferred sites. Navigating to a selected site there's no screen dysplay of distance to final destination. It dysplay distance to next turn. One cannot choose the cardinal orientation of the display. Having a choice to keep north on the upper portion of the screen at any scale would be useful. Flagging a spot by touching the screen would be useful. The navigation system of the Toyota is friendlier to use. A great feature of the Honda navigation is that updates itself via satellite."

"Surprisingly the speaker connected to the GPS system HAD NOT BEEN INSTALLED, leaving it to the dealer to find and repair the problem."

"The bluetooth for the phone only will work with one phone at a time, we have to keep reseting it. In our old Odyssey we could have both of our phones automaticaly hooked up to it at the same time."

"My paired phone was un-paired by the system during a period of non-use when we were away for a month. Since then it has been paired several times but does not hold the pairing, frequently stating that no phone is connected. This is aggravating when trying to use the calling feature while driving."

"Poor pairing. One side of the conversation or another can't hear the other. Updated phone, bought a new phone, updated car. Took in to dealer multiple times...unable to resolve."

"Mentioned this in prior report. Immediately had Bluetooth isses with car. No problem pairing with galaxy 8+, but people could not understand me when using Bluetooth interface. Sitched to phone directly and could be understood with no problem. Bought new phone, Galaxy S9+ and problem improved, could be understood most times, but audio tended to be tinny, no bass. Went on for months without resolution. Software update MAY have improved quality but not sure."

"Sometimes it works and recognizes the phone in my pocket and other times it does not."

"The Sirius xc radio comes and goes. It will be on , then it is silent from a minute many minutes. Never know when it will work. ZFM works fine"

"XM radio freezes up sometimes."

"Bad reception of SiriusXM satellite radio caused by faulty antenna."

"Satellite radio intermittently stops working. After 6 dealer visits they are unable to resolve problems"

"Radio kept losing signal. Tech found faulty tuner. It was replaced and seems to be working properly."

"Sirius Radio would say 'check tuner & screen went blank' It was not a signal issue"

"Sirius XM radio very erratic , cuts out for long periods and often, when working, changes stations by itself. Honda unable to fix and instead stalls me off by promising a magic software fix sometime in the future. Very annoying. No mor Hondas for me."

"Sirius connection is regularly lost and the only way to get it back is to change to FM, turn the car off, let it sit and then turn the car back on. FM & AM reception are consistently poor. Most recently a message sometimes appears saying the radio is not working, and the dismiss/cancel button doesn't work. When I turn off the car and open the door the radio continues to play and the battery wears down. Honda has NOT been helpful."

"XM radio changes stations randomly. I have taken it in numerous times and they say they can't get it to do it for them. Last time I was in my service advisor said she finally got it to do it for her but did not document it so Honda said it didn't happen."

"does not come on until about 40 seconds after car is started."

"no owner manual for a very complex system. dealer price for nav. manual was $37.00. i called honda about this. they promised the manuals would be sent in 5 weeks. it is now nine weeks and no manuals yet. 40,000 car and i have no idea now to operate many things."

"Started July 2019 when had multiple screen freeze and radio cut out problems. Amplifier was replaced but didn't fix the problem. Screen was replaced twice and not works ok. Radio still cuts out intermittently and Honda is still trying to fix it."

"It occasionally loses ability to operate any audio source. Usually, stopping the car and turning off the ignition clears it up, a pain in itself. One time, it wouldn't shut off the message saying that the radio didn't work even when I turned off the car. I was afraid it would drain the battery, and I actually had to disconnect the battery to reset it. After that, it was fine. It still happens once in awhile, but it's only required battery disconnection once."

"You are supposed to be able to plug a hard drive in to the USB port and play movies. I was able to set this up properly, but every time while playing movies for a bout 10 minutes it would often crash the entertainment system. Also all movies played as files have to restart from the beginning, so this feature is basically unusable."

"DVD player crashes. Car must he stopped, turned off, restarted. Not very practical when on highway or in motion in general. Happens frequently. Honda unable to fix."

"Honda ignored my complaints for the first year, then last year replaced several components of the rear entertainment system. The system continues to lock up and not work. It will run for 30 minutes and then lock up playing a DVD for the kids. If we run both the backseat camera display simultaneously with a DVD it will stop working after 25 to 30 minutes that I was told is a data overload. Terrible experience with the entire rear entertainment system."

"recall for safety on rear door locks. Fixed at dealer. no adds problems"

"i am cmpletely unable to understand the ridiculous complexity"

"GPS update would not take. Dealer had to replace display."

"There are two different software problems: the system software and the GPS software. Both systems have failed to update. GPS has updated only once in a satisfactory manner. Have had it to dealer who tried to update it on numerous occasions. Finally said let's wait until the next update. The system update ends with an error on several occasions. Suggests taking to dealer for resolution. Because of C-19 haven't been able to take it in."

"Time would not change for day light time change"

"FIVE safety recalls on this vehicle in 2 years,. The software update was to fix a problem where vehicle might try to shift into Park while driving."

"System says an update is available. Then it says no update is found."

"Auto shutdowns of engine never worked correctly. Was told the electronics are routed thru the charging pad. When keys are accidentally put on charging tray it shorts out the system. Still waiting on a call from dealer for fix. Poor gas mileage, don't trust all the safety systems"

"made a flapping noise at certain speeds."

"When starting the van- no sound for a minute or two, then in goes on at a maximum volume, lowers its'self to what it's dialed in at. it was also going in and out, as if the speaker wire connection is loose. This happens only once in a while, but too much for only having the van for 3months."

"THe Speaker would randomly display No audio connection in the middle of a drive. For some reason it would happen no matter what device is connected. The sounds would go out and it would not reset until we turn the car off for 30 min to an hour. This is hard for traveling long distances."

"I feel the car does not hear me for commands of navigation, making a call, etc for cell phone use."

"It does not understand voice commands very well, he keeps asking me questions about things I didn't even ask for."

"I have not had any mechanical problems with the Adaptive cruise control. It seems to me it could be a hazard while when you have it on and driving on an interstate highway. On several occasions it almost came to a complete stop while driving behind another car on a interstate highway. Very dangerous!"

"On a 400 mile round trip to pick my kids up from camp, my odyssey displayed almost every warning it could. ABS, LKAS, ACC, etc. I wasnt sure if it was safe to drive, so I called my dealer (which was still open on a Saturday). They assured me it was, but not to rely on auto-braking, or cruise control. Turns out the camera that controls the LKAS and ACC failed. It was replaced under warranty."

"It is to spontaneous, it will quickly brake when a car is turning the corner or changing lanes ahead of you. The system has to be disabled on crowded highways so you don't get rearended when the van suddenly brakes."

"sped up very much without me touchjng anything"

"I have had several instances where the auto braking system stopped me in the middle of the highway when it should not have. First instance was when vehicle in front of me changed lanes leaving my lane free and the system stopped me for no reason."

"Saftey latch on back doors That was a recall"

"The auto steering to maintain center of lane on occasion will steer the van to the left and cross the lane (even the center yellow lines. The lane departure will usually beep and shake the steering wheel but there have been occasions where there was no warning and we crossed into the on-coming lane with no warnings whatsoever. This is a safety issue that a Honda engineer said was operating as designed. Pure B.S."

"The adaptive cruise in this car has lots of room for improvement. It is choppy and if lanes are changed sometimes takes 5-7 seconds to determine that the lane is clear and begins to accelerate. My Toyota's adaptive cruise works far better and is far smoother."

"Recalled Side bags Tanaka"

"The adaptive cruise control is either on the gas or on the brake, makes for a jerky ride at hwy speeds, it never glides or lets the van slow down naturally. No way to allow some leeway between car ahead and van speed."

"Van brakes for no apparent reason, usually on 2 lane roads. This is a safety problem, braking hard at hwy speeds for no reason."

"The master module for all the safety and assist features failed the first week we had car. Dealer replaced this one module and we have had no problems with any system on car since. We had a warning that 14 features were malfunctioning."

"It works fine about half the time. The other half I consider a SAFETY ISSUE. The car does not want to maintain the middle of the lane. Instead, it drives to the left of the lane where it usually shakes the steering wheel and corrects back towards the center of the road. When it gets to the center of the road it immediately steers again to the left. After doing this for a few times it drives right past the left lane marker (usually the yellow road divider) without any kind of warning. This also may happen to the right lane marker in which case I may be off the road. (No, I didn't try this with traffic)"

"While repairing optional backup beepers, technicians accidentally disabled the cross-traffic warnings, but repaired them on request."

"The front collision warning lights turn on randomly without anything in front of the Odyssey Elite. Additionally, the loud rumble while coasting at 1500 RPM at various speeds is a significant safety distraction and has occurred since we purchased it new in October 2017 with the Honda Dealer able to observe the loud rumble strip noise but unable able to identify a solution to the problem."

"The warning light says passenger airbag off, but my wife is sitting in that seat!"

"safety recall to replace door latches"

"door recall"

"The doors would not close, and on occasion would not open. These are power sliding doors yet we could not move them manually when they became stuck. We were told the doors have flimsy rubber bumpers that can come off causing the problem. Afterwords there was an unrelated recall involving the sliding doors not locking shut and then opening at highway speed. Between the failed tailgate and sliding door problems this 1.5 year old van has been back to the dealer 3 or 4 times. It has other problems as well unrelated to the doors that will bring us back to the dealer yet again."

"Honda did recall on sliding doors and fixed. I never experienced problem with the doors"

"Auto Recall for sliding doors that are in danger of opening. Fixed"

"Doors would stop in the middle of closing or opening"

"Left side sliding door failed to close electrically, needed to be manually closed. Later received notice of recall on this problem."

"power sliding door on driver side would catch and not close. You would have to physically help it close or push the close button a couple of times. It sounded like it was catching on something and would make a pop sound. Dealer did a warranty fix and we've had no problems since."

"On both the driver's and passenger's door, the door-lock would not unlock using the power unlock or the key-fob. It would get stuck. It could be unlocked manually from inside the car. When trying to get into the car from the outside after unlocking with the remote, the door would remain locked. It seems that the door lock cable/actuator becomes jammed and the power unlock does not work on the front doors. To get in, we would have to reach the doors from the backseats to manually unlock them. The locks on the rest of the doors (sliding doors; tailgate) worked normally."

"sliding seat lock was faulty. Was replaced."

"The driver side 3 row seat was in place but would not latch. This was a dangerous situation that I discovered only after manipulating the rear seats the passenger side locked into place but the passenger side would not. Pictures were sent to Honda and the seat was repaired."

"The power tailgate became stuck. We had to wrestle with it to close it and we weren't at all sure it could be closed. The tailgate was always babied, not abused. At the dealer we were told that we snapped the power piston because we abused it but that they would fix it under warranty anyway. The power sliding doors and tailgate on this van all have problems...not what I was expecting from a Honda but a look online reveals I am not alone."

"The lift gate when opened allows water to leak into the trunk. It also doesn't raise enough so you have to be careful not to hit your head."