2003 Honda Odyssey: adaptive cruise control problems

Filed Sep 5, 2016 · Acceleration, Engine · 170,000 miles · MI

1.starting in early july 2016, my honda odyssey began randomly accelerating on this own, without a human depressing the gas pedal. While in drive, the car accelerates on its own. 2.when this happens, I have to press extremely hard on the brake to get the vehicle to stop. Then, when I place the car in park, the RPM increases to between 5,ooo and 7,000. Again, this is without a human depressing the gas pedal. 3.this issue seems to occur when the air conditioning is turned on, and it feels like the cruise control system is taking over even though it's turned on. 4.this issue doesn't always happen immediately once the car is turned on. It sometimes takes a random amount of time to manifest itself while the car is being driven. 5.I've faced this issue at least 15 to 20 times over the past 2 months. 6.obviously, this issue is extremely dangerous and may result in severe injury or death for the driver and other motorists. And therefore, it must be dealt with immediately. The honda dealer said that there is nothing wrong, but only checked the vehicles cpu. This is insufficient because, as indicated above, the cpu will not register an issue in idle mode or when the problem isn't actually happening.

Filed Apr 20, 2016 · DC

Dash cluster lights started dimming tcl light comes on and off. Cruise control works then revs high on highway. Reversing sometines clunks hard.

Filed Aug 18, 2015 · Transmission · 120,000 miles · TN

The vehicle was moving at 70mph on cruise control when the transmission suddenly shifted down to either second or third gear causing the vehicle slow down and move at a maximum speed around 20mph. This could cause a serious accident if there was another vehicle behind us.

Filed Dec 18, 2011 · Transmission · 133,200 miles · VA · fire

While traveling from florida to virginia down i95 at 70mph in cruise control, I suddenly lost acceleration and looked up in time to see smoke coming from the rear of the vehicle. I pulled over and transmission fluid continued to burn and smoke from engine compartment and then the plastic engine cover caught fire. We were able to extinguish it and have it towed to a honda dealer, where we were told the transmission overheated for an unknown reason. This van had already had three transmission cooler line recall performed after a similar incident by a previous owner that caused the transmission to need to be rebuilt. After being left with no other option, I opted to refill transmission fluid and continue to drive the can back to virginia. The van operated perfectly and had no issues for the rest of the six hundred plus mile trip home. I am of course now scared to drive it anywhere even though it runs like it never had a problem. It gave no indication of trouble before this sudden overheating either. This could have been much worse especially since we were traveling with three small children including a baby.

Filed Jul 18, 2011 · Transmission · 154,005 miles · AR

My family and I were traveling on the freeway with cruise control set and began smelling smoke and then started seeing smoke behind our families vehicle. We immediately pulled over and found transmission fluid all underneath and on back of our vehicle. We managed to make it to a honda dealer and after 3 hours of "we're not really sure" we were told "honda" told them our torque diverted was bad and our transmission needed to be replaced. $5000!!

Filed Jul 27, 2006 · Acceleration, Electrical · 45,000 miles · ND

Dt*: the contact stated the radio controls worked intermittently. While on vacation, the cruise control suddenly stopped working. The dealership determined this was a common problem with vehicles of the same year, make and model. The defective part also affected the proper operation of the horn assembly, the steering wheel, air bag sensor, cruise control and radio controls. The dealership replaced the cable and reel assembly. The repair only corrected the problems with the radio controls and the cruise control.

Filed Dec 2, 2005 · Acceleration · KS

Dt: the contact states while driving at 60 MPH the cruise control stopped working. The fuse was checked, but the vehicle has not been to a mechanic for inspection or repairs.

Filed Nov 1, 2005 · Body, Electrical · 6,714 miles · TX

Dt: 2003 honda odyssey. The consumer stated that the horn did not blow and the SRS light was on. The consumer had an appointment on thursday to have the vehicle looked at. The SRS light came on september 30, 2005, and the horn quit working on september 19, 2005. The consumer stated that the vehicle had the cruise control switch replaced. This did not help the problem. *ak the alternator was replaced, since the consumer purchased the vehicle a metal on metal sound had been present, the keyless entry has never performed properly, the cruise control was inoperative, the SRS light stayed on, the horn had gone out, the windshield wiper was inoperative, the alarm had gone off for no reason, there was a wind noise coming from the driver window, the remote was intermittent, the dash lights would illumnate while the vehicle was in motion, and the alternator bracket had broken.

Filed Jul 31, 2005 · Transmission · 16,512 miles · CA

I was on a highway during the day. Air condition on. Cruise control off. I've been driving 45-60 minutes at 60-70 MPH. Engine temp never changed. No indication that a failure was going to happen. The van lost speed and felt like it was stalling. Check engine light was on. Tried to pump the gas pedal but no power. I started to slow down and had to pull over the shoulder. Engine was still on and I can still rev rpms on park. I waited a min or two before I put it into drive but not able to get power from the engine. I couldn't get rpms up on drive. Fastest I could go was about 5 MPH with the gas pedal to the floor. The van kept jerking back and forth while I tried to get off the freeway. I called for a tow truck. The tow truck driver looked at the car after I explained what happened but nothing could be done to correct the failure. He loaded the van onto his flat bed and went to his service office to pick up another car that was ahead of us. He eventually had to take the van off the bed to wait for another tow truck. From the time the my van had the mechanical failure to the point where the van was taken off the truck to wait for another tow truck about 3 1/2 hours passed. The tow truck driver told me to move my car closer to their office about 20 yards away since my van can still run. At that time I noticed that the engine seems different. I tested it driving up and down road and it's as if nothing happened to the engine. The check engine was still on but the van was running fine. I was able to drive it back home with no problem. I brought the van to a honda service center they told me that they couldn't find out what caused the failure. All they were able to find out was that there was multiple misfire codes 71-1, 74-1, 75-1, 76-1 and #1, #4, #5, #6 cylinders. They said there's nothing to repair because the van checked out okay except for the check engine light which they reset and the error codes they got from the honda diagnostic system.

Filed Feb 12, 2005 · Airbags, Electrical · 42,000 miles · CA

Summary: wiring problem that could potentially cause air bag deployment when turning steering wheel. The wiring inside the cable reel assembly in the steering column of my 2003 honda odyssey came apart inside. This wiring include SRS wiring as well as horn, lighting, and cruise control wiring. Upon removal of this part all copper contacts to all wires were exposed and any wire could have shorted to any other wire -- this could potentially cause the steering wheel SRS/air bag to be deployed while driving. Contacts were constantly being tugged at whenever the steering wheel was turned. Because the car has 42,000 miles and honda would not say they would pay to fix it, I repaired this myself in accordance with the honda service manual. I have pictures of the part, and have save the part in a zip-lock bag so that it can be analyzed.

Filed Oct 1, 2003 · Acceleration · 2,039 miles · OR

While driving, the cruise control failed to disengage, the consumer was unable to stop or slow the vehicle down. The consumer shut off the ignition and cruised to the shoulder. *ak