2007 HONDA ODYSSEY — Complaint #646378
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:DISC:CHAMBER filed November 15, 2007
NHTSA complaint #646378 (ODI reference 10209082) concerns a 2007 HONDA ODYSSEY and was filed on November 15, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 25, 2007. The vehicle had 6,200 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:disc:chamber, 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 service brakes, air:disc:chamber 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 2007 HONDA ODYSSEY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WE PURCHASED BRAND NEW ODYSSEY JULY'07. FROM DATE OF PURCHASE WE NOTICED THE BRAKES PERFORMED BELOW PAR. THE BRAKES REQUIRED MUCH FORCE BE APPLIED AS WELL AS A LONGER STOPPING DISTANCE BE ACCOMMODATED. AT FIRST THE DEALER COMMENTED THAT OUR VEHICLE DID NOT HAVE A PROBLEM, HOWEVER, A TEST DRIVE SHOWED THAT IF ONE DEPRESSED THE BRAKE PEDAL WHILE THE CAR IS AT REST IT GAVE WAY UNTIL IT EVENTUALLY MADE CONTACT WITH THE FLOOR. AFTER THIS THE DEALER INSISTED THAT I LEAVE WITH A RENTAL WHILE THEY LOOKED AT THE PROBLEM, SEPT '07. THEY KEPT THE VEHICLE FOR TWO DAYS. UPON RETURNING THE VEHICLE THEIR COMMENTS WERE "WE HAVE IMPROVED THE MASTER CYLINDER, HOWEVER, THIS IS TEMPORARY AND I SHOULD ALLOW FOR A FURTHER INSPECTION AT MY NEXT OIL CHANGE". THE VEHICLE IS STILL NOT RIGHT. WHEN DRIVING THE VEHICLE IN HEAVY TRAFFIC AND BAD WEATHER IT DOES NOT INSPIRE CONFIDENCE, ONE FEELS AS THOUGH ONE IS DRIVING A LEMON. NOW THERE IS AN ADDITIONAL FAULT. THE COMPUTER FLASHES A WARNING (ERRATIC) "CHECK PETROL
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 646378 |
| ODI Number | 10209082 |
| Date Filed | November 15, 2007 |
| Failure Date | September 25, 2007 |
| VIN | 5FNRL38697B |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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