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2004 HONDA ODYSSEY — Complaint #1558474

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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN filed April 16, 2019

NHTSA complaint #1558474 (ODI reference 11196755) concerns a 2004 HONDA ODYSSEY and was filed on April 16, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 8, 2019. The report was geocoded to California 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 2004 HONDA ODYSSEY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2004 HONDA ODYSSEY
Component
POWER TRAIN
State
California

Complaint Description

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2004 HONDA ODYSSEY. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 40 MPH, THE CONTACT HEARD AN ABNORMAL GRINDING SOUND UNDERNEATH THE VEHICLE. WITHOUT WARNING, THE VEHICLE DECELERATED INDEPENDENTLY ALTHOUGH THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL WAS BEING DEPRESSED. THE VEHICLE FAILED TO ACCELERATE. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO THE CONTACT'S RESIDENCE. AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC DIAGNOSED THAT THE TRANSMISSION NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT INCLUDED IN NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 04V176000 (POWER TRAIN). THE DEALER AND MANUFACTURER WERE NOT CONTACTED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS UNKNOWN. *DT*JB *TR 'PARTS OF THIS DOCUMENT HAVE BEEN REDACTED TO PROTECT PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6).'*JB

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1558474
ODI Number 11196755
Date Filed April 16, 2019
Failure Date April 8, 2019
VIN 5FNRL18634B

Similar POWER TRAIN Complaints for 2004 HONDA ODYSSEY

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.