2008 Honda Odyssey body problems

Filed Oct 14, 2024 · Body, Electrical · WV

The passenger side door of my 2008 Honda Odyssey fell off when attempting to close it and nearly fell onto my child. The automatic sliding door was closing and around halfway closed it fell off of the track and started opening back up unprompted, thus damaging the rear right quarter panel as well. This is a major safety issue as it nearly crushed my [XXX] daughter, but thankfully was caught in time. A man parked near us in the parking lot helped us pick the door back up and said the same thing happened to him, also in a 2008 Honda Odyssey! Prior to the incident, the door would occasionally hesitate to open when button was pressed. INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6)

Filed Apr 21, 2022 · Body · SC · 1 injury

My doors wasn't latching or shutting all the way. The power doors and windows wouldn't work sometimes. Then the back sliding door fell off. Engaged the automatic door and damaged the side of the van. I seen there were recalls but none for my Vin I don't know what to do.

Filed Oct 4, 2021 · Body · OH · 1 injury

The contact owns a 2008 Honda Odyssey. The contact stated that when opening the rear driving sliding door, the door detached. The door ended up falling to the ground onto the contact's foot causing permanent injury. Medical attention was needed. The dealer was contacted who stated they were no recall on the vehicle. The vehicle had not been repaired. The contact stated they noticed that the door was attached by two small arms on the front end of the door (none on the rear end of the door) and a wheel with the track. There was nothing else there to hold the door. The manufacturer was made aware of the issue and opened a case regarding the matter. The approximate failure mileage was unknown.

Filed Apr 29, 2021 · Body · 160,000 miles · NY

Van side sliding doors have rear locking latch acuator that fails. Under power close, the rear of the door will pull in, latch, then unlatch and release the rear of the door. With power to doors off (fuse #13 removed) the door rear latch will not engage at all. The door with a failed rear latch will allow the door to slide open completely on acceleration, slam forward but not latch on braking, and will also slide open around a corner. This happened to me while I had 2 children in the center seat, at the sliding door openings. Dealer wants $511 plus tax, and there is a rebuild service for the rear latch on ebay for around $90, proving it is a chronic, wide spread problem. As a side note, if the 7.5 amp fuse is left installed in slot 13 for sliding door power, the battery will discharge over night. The dealer will not guarantee I will not have a power discharge after the rear latch (my left side door in my case) is changed, and fuse 13 is reinstalled. I'm glad my kids were strapped in when the door flew open the first time. The door would chop off a hand if it slams shut while breaking the vehicle. This should be a safety recall issue, and honda should be made to rectify the rear latch (unlatched) issue. A search of ebay for "2008 honda odyessy rear door latch" returns over 30 listings for rear sliding door latch actuator under the following http: address - https://www.ebay.com/sch/I.html?_from=r40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=2008+honda+odyessy+rear+door+latch+repair+service&_sacat=0&lh_titledesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=2008+honda+odyessy+rear+door+latch+repair

Filed Mar 19, 2021 · Body, Engine · 244,567 miles · TX · crash · 1 injury

My car was stationary, and someone hit it on the driver side and sped off. They backed into me hard though and messed up the back driver side door off won't open

Filed Dec 15, 2020 · Body · 120,000 miles · NY

Started 2019 peel off the paint body between moonroof and windshield. Area is bigger, bigger...

Filed Aug 14, 2019 · Body · 85,000 miles · IN

Sliding door on drivers side started to become hard to open without resistance. Eventually didn't open more than half way. It became so hard to close that it needed to be pushed after the initial closing. Before it was taken in for repairs the door completely fell of the track along the side and top of the door track. It was hanging on by the bottom track alone. It appears the rollers for the track have broken completely and are no longer attached.

Filed Jan 22, 2019 · Body, Electrical · 131,000 miles · TN

Tl* the contact owns a 2008 honda odyssey. While driving various speeds in the rain, water leaked through the roof and dripped onto the a-post, front driver's side air bag, and electrical components. The failure caused the electrical system to shut down, and the power doors and windows did not work. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The dealer and manufacturer were not notified. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 131,000.

Filed Jan 9, 2019 · Body, Fuel system · 140,000 miles · SC

For some reason my particular van is not included in at least 2 recalls where other same year odysseys are included. These all have the same engine, transmission and fuel system. My van was diagnosed by a mechanic as having a fuel pump module leak, which is recalled for some 2008 odussseys, but curiously not for mine. The same situation exists for the tailgate stay gas leakage, again, also recalled on some 2008 odysseys but not all.

Filed Aug 19, 2018 · Body · 103,000 miles · NJ

The automatic sliding door on the drivers side, when opened, became detached from the rails both top & bottom falling completely off, hanging only by the cable. Badly scrapping the side of the van the entire length of the door. Apparently honda has been aware of this design defect for many years, but unlike toyota who had similar problems, honda has not yet issued a recall. Aside from the obvious malfunctioning of the door this could have caused serious if not fatal injuries to a small child. The open button on the dashboard panel was hit while the vehicle was parked in a driveway(not running). The door made a grinding sound, opened, fell off it's tracks and continued to open scraping all the way down the side of the van and hanging by only the cable when it stopped. From looking on the internet & from talking to a honda service rep, this seems to be a fairly common problem which honda has chosen to ignore. The service persons' only comment was that my vehicle is out of warranty. I would like to know what honda plans to do about this known defect. Are they waiting for someone to be seriously injured or worse? Wouldn't it make sense to do a recall and fix the problem before a major injury and large lawsuit?