1999 HONDA ODYSSEY — Complaint #786776
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:SWITCH filed May 11, 2010
NHTSA complaint #786776 (ODI reference 10329948) concerns a 1999 HONDA ODYSSEY and was filed on May 11, 2010. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 1, 2010. The vehicle had 100,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:ignition:switch, 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 electrical system:ignition:switch 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 1999 HONDA ODYSSEY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
ALMOST HAD A REAL LIVE AUTO ACCIDENT. THEN RESEARCHED AND CAME ACROSS NHTSA RECALL #03V423000. CALLED HONDA, AND THEY SAID, "NOT OUR PROBLEM, IT DOESN'T APPLY TO YOUR VIN". END OF CONVERSATION. SO, WHAT RECOURSE DO I HAVE? WHAT ARE YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS? IS THERE SOMEONE ELSE HIGHER UP I CAN CONTACT AS OPPOSED TO THE HONDA 800 #? THANKS. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 786776 |
| ODI Number | 10329948 |
| Date Filed | May 11, 2010 |
| Failure Date | May 1, 2010 |
| VIN | 2HKRL186XXH |
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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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