Recall · 26V227000
Honda recalled the HONDA Odyssey over air bags
440,830
Vehicles covered
1
Model
5
Model years
April 9, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS: AIR BAG/RESTRAINT CONTROL MODULE:SOFTWARE
- The defect
- Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain 2018-2022 Odyssey vehicles. A software programming error can cause the side and side curtain air bags to deploy unexpectedly.
- What it can cause
- Air bags that deploy unexpectedly can increase the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will reprogram the supplemental restraint system (SRS) electronic control unit (ECU) software or replace the ECU, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 27, 2026. Owners may contact Honda's customer service at 1-888-234-2138. Honda's number for this recall is UNW. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will become searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning April 16, 2026. The information in your report suggests that Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) may have been aware of this issue more than five business days before filing a report with NHTSA. Please be reminded that under Federal law, this agency is to be notified of all safety defect and/or noncompliance decisions within five business days. 49 CFR 573.6 Significant civil penalties can be assessed for this violation.
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 440,830 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 97% 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 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 8 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Honda vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 58 times before this, most recently in February 2024 as 24V064000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 5 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 2,627 complaints with NHTSA, 2,249 of them before this campaign was filed. 99 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2017, 8 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 18 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V423000 (back over prevention), 26V332000 (air bags), 25V877000 (equipment adaptive/mobility), 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 April 9, 2026 as campaign 26V227000. 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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