Total Complaints
1 filings
Honda Odyssey · model year
1 NHTSA complaints. A VIN lookup is required to determine whether a specific vehicle has an unrepaired recall.
NHTSA overall rating
Not crash-tested
New Car Assessment Program
The verdict
The 1994 Honda Odyssey posts top-1% complaint standing (fewest filings) among its own model-year siblings.
The 1994HondaOdyssey carries 1 consumer safety complaint in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database for this specific model-year cohort. Within that volume, owners reported 0 crashes, 1 fire, 0 injuries, and 0 fatalities. No NCAP 5-star crash-test rating is available for this model year in the federal database.
The most frequently selected component label in reports for the 1994 Odyssey is fuel system, gasoline:storage:tank assembly:filler pipe and cap with 1 filings. Complaint categories reflect owner reports and intake categorization; they do not establish a defect pattern or cause.
NHTSA currently has 9 investigation files overlapping the 1994 Odyssey, and 1 remain open. Owners comparing this cohort against neighboring years should read the complaint-by-year trend as report volume, not a causal diagnosis. Use the related-complaint feed and the official recall lookup when researching a specific vehicle.
PlainCars' own composite of NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings and rollover-risk assessment, each dimension normalized against the federal scale or the full national model-year corpus. Not an official NHTSA figure, and not a substitute for a specific vehicle's VIN-level recall check.
Total Complaints
1 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY:FILLER PIPE AND CAP | 1 |
CONSUMER EXPERIENCED A SHOCKING FEELING WHEN GETTING IN AND OUT OF THE VEHICLE. CONSUMER STOPPED FOR GAS AND PAID WITH A CREDIT CARD. WHEN CONSUMER OPENED THE DRIVER SIDE DOOR , AGAIN SHE WAS SHOCKED. CONSUMER WAS ALSO PUTTING THE GAS CAP BACK ON TO THE VEHICLE, AND AGAIN SHE WAS SHOCKED. WHEN TWISTING THE CAP CONSUMER SAW ORANGE AND RED COMING FROM BEHIND THE NOZZLE. CONSUMER THEN REMOVED THE CAP, AND THE GAS CAP WAS ON FIRE IN CONSUMER'S HAND, AND FIRE WAS COMING OUT OF THE GAS TANK. CONSUMER TRIED NOT TO PANIC AND BLEW OUT THE FLAME ON THE GAS CAP, AND BEGAN SCREAMING FOR HELP. A NEIGHBOR CAME BY AND ASSISTED IN BLOWING OUT THE FLAMES. *AK
Mileage: 24,000
Inadvertent Deployment of Air Bags
Inadvertent Deployment of Side Air Bags
Inappropriate autonomous braking
Inadvertent Air Bag Deployment
Ignition Interlock Failure - Rollaway
Data vintage: August 2026. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Every figure on PlainCars is rendered directly from NHTSA complaint and safety data, no number is typed in by an editor. This year-specific record is rendered from NHTSA ODI, recall, and NCAP rows for the 1994 Honda Odyssey; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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