2025 Honda Odyssey Recalls & Problems

“The 2025 Honda Odyssey I purchased has issues where the car will not start after the "Automatic Start/Stop" feature turns on. What that looks like is when I stopped on the freeway in rush hour traffic, or at a long traffic signal (usually with many, many people behind me on a busy road), my car will stall and not turn on. I have to wait, sometimes minutes, for my car to restart. This is a safety i…”

“The Auto Idle Stop (AIS) does not work properly and is unsafe. When auto idle engages at a stop light, it is slow to restart, beeps and flashes the battery symbol, and sometimes fails to restart. On a more recent trip, when sitting on a freeway offramp waiting for the light to change with my entire family in the car, the vehicle completely failed to restart after AIS engaged. We were sitting ducks…”

“The 2025 Honda Odyssey I purchased has issues where the car will not start after the "Automatic Start/Stop" feature turns on. What that looks like is when I stopped on the freeway in rush hour traffic, or at a long traffic signal (usually with many, many people behind me on a busy road), my car will stall and not turn on. I have to wait, sometimes minutes, for my car to restart. This is a safety i…”

“The vehicle's Auto Idle Stop (AIS) system engaged normally when coming to a complete stop at an intersection, shutting off the engine to save fuel. However, when attempting go through the intersection after the light changed to green, the engine failed to restart automatically. The vehicle completely lost power in an active lane of traffic, creating a safety hazard. The vehicle had to be shifted …”

“I am experiencing a serious and recurring safety issue involving the engine unexpectedly completely shutting off while the vehicle is being driven and separately, the engine intermittently failing to start after the vehicle has been parked. 1.The engine unexpectedly and spontaneously shuts off when the vehicle is stopped or slowing down, including at stop signs, traffic lights, and during traffic …”

“On Tuesday, September 8, 2026 while sitting idle at a red light I had my foot on the brake and when the light turned green, I went to push on the gas and the van would not go, nearly causing the car behind me to rear end me because they figured I was going since it was a green light. I turned my hazard lights on, and there was a warning that appeared on the dash but I did not catch what it said in…”

“The vehicle will slam on its brakes with nothing around it. This has happened more times than I can count now and has almost caused us to wreck on multiple occasions”

“2025 Honda Odyssey - seems to have issue with auto-start auto-stop. Frequently, the minivan is unable to turn back on after it auto-turns off when stopped at a light or somewhere. Creates very dangerous situation because I am stuck as the driver, and the car is unresponsive. You have to put car in park, turn off the car, turn it back on, put in drive. People are honking and in one case we almost g…”

Vantage Mobility, LLC (VM) is recalling certain 2021-2026 Honda Odyssey, 2021-2025 Chrysler Pacifica, and Toyota Sienna vehicles equipped with QRT-Deluxe and QRT-Max wheelchair restraints. The retractors may not lock, preventing the wheelchair from being properly secured.

Fix: Dealers will inspect and replace the retractors, free of charge. Owner notification letters was mailed January 27, 2026. Owners may contact Vantage Mobility customer service at 1-800-488-9082.

Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain 2018-2021, 2023 Acura TLX, 2019-2024 RDX, 2017-2020, 2022-2026 MDX, 2017-2021, 2023, 2025 Honda Ridgeline, 2017-2022 Pilot, 2019-2021 Passport, 2018-2026 Odyssey, 2019-2022 Insight, 2019-2021 HR-V, 2018-2020 Fit, 2020-2022 CR-V Hybrid, 2017-2022 CR-V, 2017-2018, 2021 Civic Type R, 2017-2021 Civic hatchback, 2016-2020 Civic coupe, 2016-2022 Civic, 2017-2022 Accord Hybrid, and 2016-2022 Accord vehicles. The front passenger seat weight sensor may crack and short circuit, which can cause the air bags to deploy unintentionally during a crash.

Fix: Dealers will replace the seat weight sensors, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 7, 2026. Owners may contact Honda's customer service at 1-888-234-2138. Honda's numbers for this recall are BOL, WO9, OOA, WOM, XOH, NOC, POD, BOE, UOF, POB, EOG, AOI, QO8, TOJ, DO7, and SOK. This recall expands previous NHTSA recall number 24V064. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning May 29, 2026.