2021 Honda Odyssey defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2021 Honda Odyssey. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Inadvertent Deployment of Side Air Bags
  Preliminary Evaluation PE25018 · opened Oct 28, 2025 · closed Jun 25, 2026

  On October 28, 2025, the Office of Defects Investigations (ODI) opened PE25018 to investigate complaints of inadvertent deployment of the side curtain and/or side thorax air bags. These complaints concern model year (MY) 2018-2022 Honda Odyssey vehicles manufactured by American Honda Motor Co. (Honda). Honda issued rec…

• No Restart After Auto Start/Stop Engages
  Engineering Analysis EA25004 · opened Mar 26, 2025 · still open

  On June 3, 2022, the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened Preliminary Evaluation PE22005 after the agency received VOQs and several field reports concerning the Auto Idle Stop (AIS) feature on 2016-2019MY Honda Pilot vehicles. The complaints allege that the engine fails to restart on its own from a complete stop a…