The automatic rear doors don't latch properly and can occasionally open during sharp turns.
2007 Honda Odyssey body complaints
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The paint has been peeling on the hood starting small and growing exponentially larger and expanding to the area on the roof between the windshield and sunroof. This defect has been noted in other cars similar to ours.
The passenger side sliding door will not close completely using powered closing mechanism. When the power mechanism is turned off on the dashboard and the door is closed manually by hand, it stays closed but only for a few seconds. Then the back part of the door pops open. It does not matter how many times the back of the door is pushed closed (and the lock button hurriedly locked) the back of the door will pop open. When it is being driven down the road/highway the door open light is on, the door is not closed completely and road/highway noise is heard from the partially open door. On occasion, (when turning right, going downhill, going over certain bumps) the light will go off and the door will "close" but this is only temporary. As soon as the turn is finished, not going downhill, or go over another small bump, the door will pop open in the back and the light will turn back on. This is a safety issue, especially because children are transported in the vehicle!
Hi, I own honda odyssey 2007 and I've notice the paint from the roof top toward the front side is peeling off slow and its getting bigger and bigger. This paint is not cause by any accident damage or anything but I believe its defected by the honda manufacture painting it self. I've checked online about this problem and a lot of owner of this type of car have the same problem. Honda company should be responsible to repair this kind of defect at no cost to any honda owner's.
Approximately 3 weeks ago, my wife went out to our driveway to start her day and suddenly the passenger door and liftgate on our low mileage 2007 honda odyssey minivan would not open. Neither could be opened via remote or physical level (interior or exterior). At the same time, the right tail light stopped lighting. The dealership cannot explain the coincidence, which suggests some sort of electical issue which broke multiple actuators, but regardless it is a huge safety issue. Right now occupants could very well be trapped in the vehicle in an emergency. The dealer has provided an estimate of $1000 to repair, and I believe they should address the issue at their expense as there are many, many reports of hondas suffering from these door and liftgate issues. Please help make them accountable before someone is injured or killed. Thanks
Open driver sliding door to place groceries and shut the door. There was a buzzing sound (which has sounded previously but goes away if the sliding door lock is put into place) as I attempted to drive. As I turned a corner, the door opened all the way while I was driving on a city street. I used the automatic door closer and it closed. Less than 10 minutes later, still while driving on a street, the door opened fully again. I braked and put the car in park and attempted to use the automatic door closer, and it closed, but opened again right after I started the car and turned a corner. I stopped the car and got out and attempted to close the door manually, but it wouldn't close tightly. Because I was only a block away from home, I drove home and parked in the garage. I attempted to close the door several times, but it wouldn't close completely shut. Later, I went back into the garage, I opened the door and it shut tightly this time. Now, I am afraid to use the door. I bought the minivan because I have children.
The sliding door completely fell off. This was unprovoked. I opened it and it didn't open all the way. I then attempted to close it and it was stuck so I turned off the electric part. Now that it was manual I attempted to close it and it fell off complete!
Tl* the contact owns a 2007 honda odyssey. While parked, the power liftgate abruptly closed while in use. The contact was uninjured. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who stated that both power liftgate struts needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the issue. The approximate failure mileage was 65,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2007 honda odyssey. While getting bags out of the vehicle, the rear liftgate failed and crashed onto the contact's shoulder. The dealer stated that the rear hatch shocks failed. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 192,000.
The passenger side power sliding rear door began intermittently having issues closing-it would close about 75% of the way, then beep as it does if there is an object blocking it's path, then open back up. I would have to pull the door to help guide it closed. Before I could get it to the honda dealer, the driver side power sliding rear door began doing something similar. It would close only about 90%, but I was unable to pull it fully closed. I flipped the switch to turn the doors from power operation to manual operation, thinking everything would be ok. I was able to get the driver side sliding door closed manually. However, when we arrived at our destination, I tried to open the passenger side sliding door (switch was still in the manual position), and was only able to open it about 8-10 inches. I could not get my 2 yr old daughter out of her car seat. I pushed with all of my strength, and it would not budge. I ran back around, flipped the switch back to auto, and was able to get the door open that way. However, this ordeal has shown me a severe safety flaw with the power sliding doors on the 2007 odyssey. If we had been in a situation where the vehicle was on fire--possibly from the now recalled fuel mechanism that can catch fire--I would not have been able to get them out. In an emergency, when every second counts, the door issue could literally have made the difference between life and death. My husband looked at the door that evening, and he, too, was unable to get the passenger side door to budge when set to manual operation. He had to lift the back of it and pull it open. Also, he looked at the drivers side sliding door and noticed metal shavings on the door where metal had literally been grinding on metal. The roller mechanism is no longer working. I am taking it in to my local honda dealer.
The paint on our honda odyssey is failing. Honda offered a recall/warranty extension for this issue, but made no attempt to alert us about it until after the recall/warranty was expired. We specifically asked about any service bulletins or recalls before the recall/warranty expired and were told there were none. It wasn't until after the recall/warranty expired that were we told about it. Honda is now telling us that they will not repair the failing paint because the recall/warrenty is expired. We have tried to work through the local dealer and honda's national customer service center to no avail. Honda's business strategy around this particular recall/warranty appears to be to hide information from consumers until they are no longer required to respond to specific problems with their vehicles. Please help us resolve this issue with american honda. Thank you.
2007 honda odyssey. Consumer experienced a second failure of the lift gate struts that held the rear entry open while the attendant loaded and unloaded a wheelchair.
Sliding doors keep failing even after several replacements by honda. Doors do not remain closed even when locked. Rear section of sliding door remains ajar. A side impact or side swipe crash could easily tear open the doors. Side airbag deployment could also cause injury if tripped by the failing doors. As I said this is an ongoing re-occurrence even after honda repair. I know of several other odyssey owners dealing with the same issue. Honda dealer admits they see many of these in 2007-2008 odysseys'.
Tl* the contact owns a 2007 honda odyssey. The contact stated that the rear passenger door fractured and detached from the vehicle. In addition, the vehicle rolled backwards twice while the gear was in park. The dealer stated that the transmission needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired and the manufacturer was notified. The failure mileage was 110,000.
Tl * the contact owns a 2007 honda odyssey. The contact stated that the rear liftgate lacked tension and failed to remain open. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified. The approximate failure mileage was 86,000.
Lots of car stopped on the highway 65 mile speed limit,I stopped completely after few second later rear vehicle hit my van. Police came make report,rear car's fault. I did not ride ambulance. I see doctors,I thought I was o.k. But 10 month later I was in the hospital almost 2 months. I got surgery my upper back because my spinal was pinched by bone and leaking. Air bag did not deployed accident time,if it work ,I did not injured. Rear car hit my van and my van hit in front of my car. My chair frame was lifted up rear door and bumper and body frame need straight.
Loss of power steering & difficulty turning steering wheel. Paint on top of the roof has begun to fade. Had to replace oil pan because of lug nut damage to pan. According to the mechanic damaged was caused to the oil pan due to the quality of metal within the lug nut that is of harsher material than the oil pan. Therefore, it caused damage to the oil pan that required us to have an immediate oil pan replacement during a routine oil change.
Tl* the contact owns a 2007 honda odyssey. The contact stated that while attempting to stop the driver side power sliding door by positioning her body in the path of the door, the door continued to close entrapping the baby inside the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who was unable to diagnose the failure. The manufacturer was not notified. The failure mileage was 80,000.
2007 honda odyssey. Consumer writes in regards to vehicle paint peeling. *smd some time ago, the consumer noticed small bubbles over the entire vehicle, some of which had started to peel, which LED to large portions of the paint peeling. The consumer learned honda used a low quality primer which resulted in poor adherence to the paint.
In 2010 I had to have 3 out of the 4 motor mounts replaced on my engine and then last week I was told that I need to replace 2 of the motor mounts. I was told by the honda service center this is not a normal wear and tear item and that I should not have had to have them replaced again 4 years later. I've also seen multiple complaints about various models of honda odysseys with the same problem. Your engine shakes terribly at start and while idling and has a hard kick when you start to go from braking and idling and jerks forward which I can only attribute to this problem. It caused me to brake because I thought my engine had fallen out of my vehicle or was about to and in stop and go traffic on the highway this can be quite dangerous. I believe this is a known problem by honda as I've seen it mentioned on numerous websites and I have notified honda myself just recently. I would hope they would look into this. I am not able to get this fixed as it costs nearly 1200$ every time this occurs.
Tl* the contact owns a 2007 honda odyssey. The contact stated that the rear lift gate failed while he unloaded items. The contact mentioned that as a result of the failure, the gate droped impacting the contact in the head. The contact inspected the lift gate and found the tail gate struts fractured. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer advised that the vehicle was not include in the federal safety agency campaign number 12v062000 (structure). The approximate failure mileage was 70,000 and the current mileage was 82,000. ...updated 11/15/17 *bf *cn
I received a recall notice relating to faulty vsa system in honda odysseys. My vehicle was totalled as a result of a single driver accident that occured on ct-15 merrit parkway in january 2011. It snowed that day in connecticut although there was no visible snow on the highway when this happened and at a particular turn, the vehicle skidded (no break was applied), and after trying to control through turning the steering hit the road divider barricades facing forward and then sideways resulting into damage to radiator system and activating all air bags. I spoke with honda representative today who advises that they cannot assist me further because vehicle is not available for inspection and they cannot therefore confirm or deny whether the issue was caused due to this matter. My request to speak to the supervisor was declined. I do not feel that my concerns were adequately addressed.
I opened my rear hatch door using the remote, it opened with the normal short beeps but closed very fast with a continues alarm . I opened the hatch manually and it slammed shut, won't stay open.
Returned to the car after shopping. Opened the tailgate for loading groceries. Tailgate closed without warning. Fortunately, no one was under and no one was injured. Afterward, tailgate would not stay open. Struts failure was the reason. Struts failure without warning is a big safety risk because the tailgate is very heavy, and could cause severe injuries if someone is under.
Passenger sliding door automatically opened while vehicle was in motion, exposing my 5 year old to serious injury. This is the 3rd occurrence. Baierl honda of wexford pa cannot identify any faults even though the vehicle has been taken to them on several occasions.
Honda odyssey 2007 liftgate non-powered lift struts failed instantaneously. This caused the heavy liftgate to no longer stay on the open/up position. Honda (under extended warranty plan) replaced both struts. Within several months, struts again failed and were replaced by honda. On 11/3/2013 this struts again failed instantaneously (used without problems around 2pm), failed at 4:30pm. This is less than two years since last replacement for a major functionally necessary component of the mini-van. Honda was contacted and claims there are no known defects with the struts and that they are "far" outside the replacement warranty window of 12 months. It would same honda uses defective or inferior parts for these struts. Honda support rep. Told me that if I felt the struts were not high quality and effective in holding the liftgate up I should look for 3rd party manufactured struts that filled my needs better. Very surprised by this response that honda would tell me to get "better" parts outside if their own liftgate struts are not up to the job they are designed to do for years without failure.
Liftgate struts failure. I just wanted to make you aware of the danger when a liftgate strut failed without any warning or indication of failure. My odyssey 2007 liftgate was working fine on saturday but then completely failed on sunday. It just drops from an open position. I'm glad that no one gets hurt. When I try to lift it again, the strut would not hold the tailgate open anymore. I reported to honda dealer and was told that there was no recall for 2007 model but there was a recall for 2008 and up. I will suggest that you also check the strut on models 2005 and up as it looks like there a lot of complain strut failure on these year model as well when you go to odyclub.com which is a forum for honda odyssey owners. I will replace mine and not wait for honda to take ownership on this failure but I am still reporting this in hope that no one will get hurt if honda continues to ignore this issue. Liftgate struts failure can cause injury or even death especially to small adults and children.
The lift gate strut on our 2007 honda odyssey ex-l suddenly failed and the gate fell by itself. It almost injured me while loading shopping bags into the trunk area. The rear gate is very heavy that it could actually result in a severe injury or fatality, when it suddenly fell on one's head. After some research online, I found that the same issue occurs to other honda odyssey owners. Cite: http://www.odyclub.com/forums/52-2005-2010-odyssey/40133-tailgate-gas-strut-problems-9.html there's also a similar recall for 2008 and 2009 honda odyssey model regarding the lift gate strut.
In a routine virginia state safety inspection a honda dealer failed my wife's 2007 honda odyssey van (50902 miles) for two broken motor mounts (front and passenger side) and a burned out brake light. I did not and do not believe that such a new, low mileage vehicle should have developed broken motor mounts, especially since my wife drove the van gently since it was new. Because the projected repair costs to replace the motor mounts, "cracked" compliance bushings and other unspecified bushings were expected to be several thousand dollars, I took the van to an independent auto repair shop for a second opinion. The independent shop did establish that the front motor mount was broken and that the other issues, however, were spurious. The independent shop agreed to repair the van for $368. I think that honda has in this case designed and produced faulty motor mounts (I think that each honda odyssey engine has 5 motor mounts). I also think that honda should issue a recall to replace the faulty motor mounts at no cost to the vehicle's owners and should reimburse owners (current and prior) for any related repair costs. Since a faulty motor mount triggered a rejection in a virginia state safety inspection, this honda motor mount failure issue is clearly a safety issue.
Tl* the contact owns a 2007 honda odyssey. The contact stated that the tailgate failed to stay open. The vehicle was not repaired and the manufacturer was not notified. The approximate failed mileage was 87,000. Updated 09/05/13*lj the struts that supported the hatch failed. They were replaced at the local dealer. Updated 09/05/13
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