2018 HONDA ODYSSEY — Complaint #2033740
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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY/WIPER filed October 19, 2024
NHTSA complaint #2033740 (ODI reference 11620748) concerns a 2018 HONDA ODYSSEY and was filed on October 19, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 1, 2024. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility/wiper, 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 visibility/wiper 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
Rear backup camera stopped working. Currently there is an active recall for 2018 Odysseys on all trim levels vin specific but somehow our vin number isnât covered under the recall. I followed service bulletin 20-060 and it fixed the problem.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2033740 |
| ODI Number | 11620748 |
| Date Filed | October 19, 2024 |
| Failure Date | August 1, 2024 |
| VIN | 5FNRL6H87JB |
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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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