2008 HONDA ODYSSEY — Complaint #1069821
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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:BODY:TAILGATE:HINGE AND ATTACHMENTS filed May 28, 2014
NHTSA complaint #1069821 (ODI reference 10594631) concerns a 2008 HONDA ODYSSEY and was filed on May 28, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 21, 2014. The vehicle had 67,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Iowa based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:body:tailgate:hinge and attachments, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same HONDA ODYSSEY cohort independently describe similar structure:body:tailgate:hinge and attachments failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2008 HONDA ODYSSEY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
THE TAILGATE STRUTS BROKE WHILE THE TAILGATE WAS OPEN, STRIKING ME IN MY BACK. I NOTICED THERE WAS A RECALL FOR THE 2008 HONDA ODYSSEY, BUT MINE IS NOT INCLUDED AND I WAS GIVEN NO VALID REASON AS TO WHY, ONLY THAT IT WAS SPECIFIC VIN'S AND MINE WAS NOT IN THE BUNCH THAT WAS RECALLED. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1069821 |
| ODI Number | 10594631 |
| Date Filed | May 28, 2014 |
| Failure Date | May 21, 2014 |
| VIN | 5FNRL38428B |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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