Recall · 20V066000
Honda recalled the HONDA Odyssey over electrical system
241,339
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
February 6, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING
- The defect
- Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain 2018-2020 Odyssey vehicles. The wire harness for the third row seat accessory power outlet may get pinched between the unibody and rear trim panel, possibly damaging the wires and causing an electrical short.
- What it can cause
- An intermittent electrical short could overheat the wire harness, increasing the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Honda will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the third row seat accessory power outlet wire harness for damage, replacing it as necessary. If no damage is found, the dealer will apply protective tape and re-route the harness. All repairs will be performed free of charge. The recall began March 16, 2020. Owners may contact Honda customer service at 1-888-234-2138. Honda's number for this recall is T6U.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 241,339 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 96% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Honda vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 33 times before this, most recently in October 2019 as 19V703000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,360 complaints with NHTSA, 206 of them before this campaign was filed. 628 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2017, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 15 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V423000 (back over prevention), 26V332000 (air bags), 26V227000 (air bags), 24V064000 (air bags).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) with NHTSA on February 6, 2020 as campaign 20V066000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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