2012 Honda Odyssey defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2012 Honda Odyssey. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Inadvertent Deployment of Air Bags
  Defect Petition DP26005 · opened Jul 13, 2026 · still open

  The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) received a Petition dated May 30, 2026. The Petition is requesting an investigation into inadvertent air bag deployment in model year (MY) 2011-2017 Honda Odyssey vehicles. The Petition contends that air bags can deploy absent a sufficiently severe event to trigger a deployment…