2018 HONDA ODYSSEY — Complaint #1558253
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN filed April 15, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558253 (ODI reference 11196583) concerns a 2018 HONDA ODYSSEY and was filed on April 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 13, 2019. The vehicle had 9,500 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train, 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 power train 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 2018 HONDA ODYSSEY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WHILE DRIVING ON A 50 MPH, TWO LANE ROAD, THE VEHICLE ABRUPTLY SHIFTED INTO NEUTRAL AUTONOMOUSLY AFTER EXPERIENCING A TRANSMISSION FAILURE AND PROHIBITED THE DRIVER FROM RETAKING CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE. WITH NO POWER AVAILABLE, THE DRIVER WAS ULTIMATELY FORCED TO COAST TO A STOP ON THE SHOULDER OF THE ROAD. WARNING MESSAGES INDICATED A TRANSMISSION FAILURE, EMISSION CONTROL FAILURE, AND BLIND SPOT MONITORING FAILURE. THE CAR WAS TOWED TO THE NEAREST HONDA DEALER.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558253 |
| ODI Number | 11196583 |
| Date Filed | April 15, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 13, 2019 |
| VIN | 5FNRL6H76JB |
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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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