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2004 Honda Odyssey transmission problems

77 complaints about transmission have been filed for the 2004 Honda Odyssey, which is 11% of all its NHTSA complaints. It is the 3rd most reported problem area for this model year.

At a glance

Complaints
77 11% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
98,000 miles 65 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
4 and 0
Injuries and deaths
1 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When transmission problems show up

Transmission complaints by mileage, 2004 Honda Odyssey Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 98,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 5 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 1 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 4 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 7 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 18 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 13 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 9 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 5 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 2 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 1 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 98,000 miles
Based on 65 complaints that include mileage. 15% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles5
20k to 40k miles1
40k to 60k miles4
60k to 80k miles7
80k to 100k miles18
100k to 120k miles13
120k to 140k miles9
140k to 160k miles5
160k to 180k miles2
180k to 200k miles1
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 65 transmission complaints that report mileage, the median is about 98,000 miles, and 15% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 4 crashes, 1 injury.

What owners wrote

Unintended acceleration of my honda odyssey- I was slowly pulling into a parking space in front of a store front and the car started accelerating, jumped the curb, hit a post, and went through a store front window. This is the first time this has ever happened. I was the only one injured. I reported the incident to american honda corporation on11-13-09. The case number is [xxx] . I tried to brake, but the brake would not stop the vehicle.

Reported at 85,000 miles, September 2009 CrashInjury

Tl* the contact owns a 2004 honda odyssey. The contact was driving 50 MPH when the vehicle failed to switch gears properly. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for failure diagnostics where he was also informed that the vehicle was not included in NHTSA campaign id number: 0v176000 (power train:automatic transmission). The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 63,037 and the current mileage was 100,000.

Reported at 63,037 miles, June 2011

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