2001 honda odyssey lx front passenger side coil spring broke backing out of driveway. Car pulled very hard to the right and could not be safely driven.
2001 Honda Odyssey suspension complaints
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Tl* the contact owns a 2001 honda odyssey purchased brand new. She stated while driving at speeds of 40 MPH the front passenger's side tire blew out. She was able to maneuver the vehicle off the roadway and upon further inspection, she observed a coil spring hanging from under the vehicle on the passenger's side of the vehicle. The front coil spring broke and slit the front passenger's side tire causing the blow out. There were no recalls on her vehicle. A previous investigation was opened on this particular failure but did not lead into a recall stating, " a defect trend has not been identified at this time and further use of agency resources is not warranted" (see the federal safety agency action number pe06007: component :suspension:front:springs:coil springs). No repairs were made to date. The failure and current mileages were 122,000.
2001 honda odyssey front suspension coil broke and punctured the driver's side front tire while I was driving on the highway. I pulled over called a tow truck and the vehicle is in the shop with the cost of repair estimate at $1,200.00. The van has 70,000 miles on the odometer and was recently repaired in this region due to a collision.
While driving wife & kids home from xmas vacation 2009 in our 2001 honda odyssey minivan with 104,000 miles. We hear a "pop" noise followed by a grinding noise coming from the front left of vehicle, steering pulling to the left. I pulled over & inspected. I found a large semi-circular shaped piece of steel approx 1/2 in diameter. This piece of steel was caught around the drive shaft & the lower control arm. Finally I got it pried it off (it was actually struck in that position) once holding it in my hand & now know it to be a coil of the front left spring.
On the morning of february 26, as I was approaching my company parking lot, I heard a crunching noise from front end. After parked vehicle I found ice/snow between the wheel and fender skirt. I thought noise was coming from the accumulated ice/snow, so I remove it from vehicle. When I left after work, the noise was still present. I turned into a nearby parking lot and discovered the right side front spring was broken at the last coil at bottom of the spring. Broken spring only had about 1 to 2 inches in the lower spring seat to support vehicle's weight. The broken portion was hanged on the broken spring. The noise was from the broken portion touching rolling wheel. The broken section was very sharp which posed great danger of piercing, or puncturing the tire. When I asked the honda dealer to replace the spring, I was told the shock absorber was damaged by the broken spring. Consequently the strut had to be replaced. Fortunately I drove on a local street at a low speed that day. Had the spring broken while driving on the freeway, at posted speed limit of 70 MPH, I could have lost control, which could have caused a major highway accident, with potential for fatalities. A metallurgist took a look at the spring and told me the cause was due to corrosion accelerated premature fatigue failure. The metallurgist also informed me that honda has changed spring design after 2001 model. I called honda north america and informed them of the incident and defective spring. I believe this defect that could greatly impair the driver's ability to control the vehicle, if in fact a tire is punctured, or steering is impaired, due to a broken spring. Honda refused to analyze the failure and told me to scrap, or to throw away, the broken spring. I keep the broken spring in my possession. If the federal safety agency would like examine and analyze the broken spring, in order to determine if an investigation is warranted, I will send it to you upon your request.
Using the vehicle daily under normal city driving conditions around a small town noise was heard emanating from the front suspension. Inspection of the equipment found both front coil springs broken and the upper turning bearings damaged due to the coil spring fractures. The usage of the vehicle as a grocery getter does explain a possible cause for the failure and the only possible explanation is a defect in the material. No injuries occurred. Both front coil/strut assemblies along with the stabilizer links need to be replaced at my cost.
As best we can determine (based on noise) the coil springs failed while parking at low speeds. Not knowing what had happened the car was used at highway speed for a short trip following this. It pulled hard to alternating sides (right and left). Car was immediately taken to repair where we were advised we are lucky not to have had the spring puncture the tire at highway speed. Car has been repaired at cost of $850. The reason for my complaint is two fold. First - this was a dangerous failure that I do not feel is acceptable in a car of any age; and second - this was an expensive repair that I would like to see honda cover.
On june 28, 2006 I heard a noise near the left front tire, sounded like a flat and got out of the car and found the coil spring cracked and was impinging on the tire. Honda covered the cost of the spring, but not the strut or the labor. On march 12, 2009- I heard a rattling noise from the right front part of the car and brought it to a shop and they put it on the left and the right front coil spring cracked- we paid out of pocket the cost of the spring and the strut and the labor. In both incidents the cracked spring caused the strut to leak which therefore required the replacement.
I was driving down the road at about 25 miles an hour when I heard a very loud noise come from the front right of the vehicle. I immediately pulled over into a parking lot where I was able to do a visual check of the undercarriage of the vehicle which looked fine.upon starting up again it started to sound like I was dragging metal. I decided to drive it right home and call the honda dealership. After their inspection they informed me that the front right coil spring had cracked and broken. This was something they were unfamiliar with and said that with my mileage that shouldn't have happened and in fact shouldn't happen at all. Upon being given that diagnosis I decided to talk to other certified repair people as well as two other honda dealerships and they agreed that it is not a normal issue. Upon even further investigation I found that not only is this common, but on one website I found 24 others who reported the same incident on the same make, model and year vehicle. My concern is that if it has happened to all those people how many more are there that haven't reported this issue and has anyone been injured because of it. Right now my vehicle is in the shop so I'm not quite sure what the final repair will consist of or if it will lead to any other issues .the old part is available.
Today, noticed some vibration and grinding coming from the front passenger side wheel. The grinding was bad on backing up or turning right, as well as when going over small bumps. The steering also pulled hard to the right. After a mile, I noticed a burning smell. Took it to the mechanic, and the saw that the right front coil spring was broken and had cut into the inside of the tire. The mechanic strongly suggested replacing the strut assembly as well as doing the driver side. Since I do not know much about repairing cars, I wanted to research prices on the internet. My search turned up a recall on the part for a 2001 acura mdx, but only these complaints for the 2001 odyssey. I did register the complaint with honda. They said they are not aware of any issues.
Last week ass my wife was driving our minivan made a loud snapping sound from the front of the vehicle. The van appeared to drive ok, although she only drives it around town at speeds less than 40mph. Today, the dealer told us the passenger side front spring had snapped. This is the second time this has happened to our van. The driver side spring snapped in december 2007. The honda odyssey forums at www.odyclub.com have many instances of this happening.
On march 14, 2008, when starting 2001 honda odyssey, a loud bang sounded. Vehicle was not moving when bang sounded. Mileage 39,139. Vehicle extremely difficult to drive, pulling strongly to right. Husband checked vehicle, found right front coil spring broken. Ordered new coil spring and strut and replaced. On december 17, 2008, upon starting the vehicle heard another loud bang, while vehicle not moving, and had great difficulty driving it, as it was pulling strongly to the left. Husband found left coil spring broken. Mileage 43,743. Talked to honda USA, and reported problem. Took to dealer to confirm left coil spring broken. Both broken parts had no corrosion, it was a clean break. Parts currently ordered through honda estore. Honda reviewing case. Found many complaints for same problem on your site, and others. How serious of an accident must it be before you will find this is a problem with the coil springs? Thank goodness my children weren't in the vehicle, and I hadn't been moving when the coil springs broke.
When car was parked, right front spring broke and pierced right front tire.
Front spring failure on my 2001 honda odyssey, I recently broke a spring and researched the internet for a replacement without success so I went to a salvage yard and found out the springs on the vans they had were broke also. After reading the federal safety agency report #pe06007 I feel there should have been a recall on this vehicle. It's a little scary knowing a tire could be punctured resulting in injury or worse. I hope I will get some kind of response on this, thanking you in advance, gerald lahnan.
Right front coil spring failure on 2001 honda odyssey. Failure caused spring to contact right front tire and ruin it. Had to cut spring to remove from tire. Purchased new tire and coil spring to repair vehicle. Still have old spring and tire. Will the left side fail next, and when??
The coil spring of the front right-hand wheel was found broken, after I heard clunk noises when turning.
Passenger front coil spring broke while driving at 40mph. No further damage. Dealer has replaced both front springs dealer has the larger portion, I have the smaller portion.
On december 11 as my wife was backing out of our driveway, she hear a loud bang (like a gunshot) and noticed a large rubber disc on our driveway. Nothing appeared to be wrong with our van. Driving the van was ok but any turning of the vehicle resulted in loud screeching sounds coming from the driver side wheel. The cause was a broken spring. No one was injured when this failure occurred because my wife was slowly backing out of the driveway.
My 2001 odyssey van has 75,000 miles on it. I found that the broken right front spring was the cause of a noise. While in the course of replacing it, I found that the left front was broken as well, and in exactly the same place. I see from the other incidents on the internet that this is a very common problem with this van, and that it is (of course) potentially catastrophic. The new springs look exactly like the old ones- they have a plastic sleeve over part of the spring. This puts a stress point at the end of the sleeve. I have a background in mechanical engineering and in my opinion, the design of the springs and the spring mounts, as well as the very high pre-load on these springs, is a recipe for failure. I saw that the federal safety agency started an investigation two full years ago. When are you people going to start saving people? Are you waiting for the first head-on collision to result? I would think you would force a recall and that the dealer should be replacing these for free with the (redesigned) spring.
Tl*the contact owns a 2001 honda odyssey. The contact stated that he heard loud noises coming from the vehicle and the suspension was erratic caused by a broken front coil. As of january 7, 2008, the dealer had not inspected the vehicle. The current and failure mileages were 86,138. Updated 03-05-08 *bf the consumer stated needed to replace the spring and the thrust bearing above it. Updated 03/05/08
Reference pe06007. 1 1/2 years ago the left front coil spring failed and our vehicle was under warranty at the time so this was covered but approximately 1.5 yrs later and the right front coil spring broke as my husband was driving home from work this evening. The dealership technician stated that the right front coil spring appeared ok on march 28th of 2006 and therefore the warranty company would not pay to have this corrected. This is clearly a defect in workmanship and this coil should have been replaced at the time the other one was fixed and covered by the warranty. See also 10153819 *dsy
Vehicle was stationary in driveway waiting for garage door to open completely when a loud banging noise was heard from the front passenger side of vehicle. Upon inspection it was obvious that the coil spring had fractured into pieces. Driving the car to a repair shop was difficult. The car pulled to the side and there were vibrations and rubbing noises during the 1.5 mile drive. At the shop the mechanic discovered that both springs on driver and passenger side of the vehicle had fractured. We were unaware of the 2nd spring failure and do not know if it happened simultaneously or not. Repair cost is estimated at $900 and car will be out of service for 4 days. Car is being repaired and old parts will be available.
We backed our 2001 honda odyssey out of driveway, heard a loud bang like july 04 firework! Stopped the van and I found broken front coil spring!!! Luckily this happens on our driveway instead of highway at 65-75 miles/hour!!! Thanks god it happens at home. The fact: 2001 honda odyssey with 75k miles - bought new in 2001 in chicago il. We are the only owners from day 1. - moved to omaha ne 2005 - never in an accident - never ran over huge pot hole. - no trailer hitch or pulling. - 90% of the time driving 4 kids to school and shopping. - a few long-distance trips over 800 miles (highway). - admittedly the van has always been in the ''snow belt'' of illinois and nebraska and therefore salt on the road, but I washed the odyssey''s chassis and coil spring every spring to clean out the salt. Here is my opinion: I have owned many cars and vans in my life and I understand that coil spring will eventually fail but this is usually seen in cars/vans/pick-up trucks over 15 years old and 180-200k miles or so. For this to happen to a 2001 honda odyssey van at 6 years and 75k miles is premature and must be manufacturing defect of some sort. Info is posted at honda odyssey forum: http://www.odyclub.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38700
Our 2001 honda odyssey began making a loud metal on metal clunk whenever we went over any kind of bumps in the road. The noise was centralized to the front driver's side. When taking it it to be repaired, a section of the front coild spring that had sheared off fell from the front of the vehicle. We pulled over and recovered the section of coil and we were fortunate that we were going slow and that it does not appear to have done any other damage. To correct the failure we had to replace both front coil springs ($560) and we were also advised to replace the struts even though they appeared to be in good shape with no leakage (which we chose not to do at this time due to cost).
Front suspension - coil spring failure backing out of garage the rt ft spring broke with a loud noise, car pulled to one side on short drive with hard to control pull to right, a 8" piece was found on garage floor, no tire damage from broken spring upon inspection the left side spring is near failure and had to be replaced vehicle mileage 75k, this is a faulty honda problem but honda never owns up to ever having such problems even though neighbors had similar problem, this is a maintenance issue so they say. Both front coil springs replaced.
In our dirveway we found a metal circle, about 1/2 " in thickness, about 8" in diameter, apparently made of iron, which was a rusted through, a bit twisted and obvioulsy snapped in one section. We dismissed it as garbage. Three weeks later we heard a noise on our van & brought it to the dealership. On examination of our van, the mechanic brought out another part taken from our vehicle identical in condition as the one found in our driveway. He said it was a front suspension spring and the van, a 2001 honda odyssey with appx 58500 miles, was unsafe to drive.
Front right spring fractured causing the shocks to fail also. Repairs totaling $699.37 included replacement of front right and left spring and front shocks.
The left front coil spring on our 2001 honda odyssey van with approx. 56,000 miles is broken. I believe this is a defect and should be made public because my neighbor had the same problem with their 2001 honda odyssey van. *jb see also 10212265
Noise coming from front drivers side of van. Rubber seal at top of strut was hanging down. Spring on drivers side was broken. Honda dealership said both springs were broken. Dealership had to replace springs, struts, seals...etc. Complete replacement of front suspension parts. {both sides} ron at ext. 118038 at american honda stated that parts were defective. American honda paid for all parts but not labor. Total bill over $2,000!
On 12/28/05 the drivers side front coil spring broke on our 2001 honda odyssey lx with 79,662 miles. This occurred on a residential side street at low speed. The vehicle pulled sharply to the left, however, this was controllable. No other damage occurred as the spring broke cleanly and collapsed vertically (tire, strut, strut tower are fine). This was replaced at my own expense by our local honda dealer. At the time of the event I noted that this seemed unusual, however, I'm not sure if the dealer notified american honda of the issue. I'm am concerned about the integrity of the other spring and plan on calling honda to discuss.
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