Seven problems related to equipment have been reported for the 1999 Honda Odyssey. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
I was driving the car in heavy traffic when the engine shutdown and was almost run into by several cars behind and beside the car. The cars engine has been determined to be seized up even though there was no warning of either low oil pressure or high engine temp or any engine malfunction indicator. The engine has been regularly maintained. This cold have been a disaster had the driver of the vehicle had not taken heroic measures to get the vehicle safely pulled over and stopped. This action could have caused the driver and possibly the other vehicles beside and behind serious injuries and or possibly a fatality. I have done some research on this issue and there are others that this has happened to. Something needs to be done about this issue before someone loses their life over it.
Ignition switch recall.
I spoke with eric at Honda recall and campaign department--I told him that my car was having the exact same issue as the recall. The key can be removed while the car is in gear and it has rolled already. He told me that this was already repaired and even though it appears the repair failed and the car is still at risk--he says that Honda must evaluate it first and they might repair it. Or they may not.
Our 1999 Honda Odyssey has had the p0740 torque clutch converter solenoid circuit (open) code displayed numerous times, we thought since it was a serious issue and the transmission had already been replaced within 20,000 miles that we should actually take it to the dealer in marysville, wa and have them do a transmission flush then a supervisor and said no you should have us run a diagnostic by one of our master techs. After reiterating this seriousness of our transmission issue the code coming on and delays in shifting mostly just barely noticeable, they assured us if we paid $129 for a diagnostic that a master tech could get to the issue, however they later told us after we got the car back and called on the issue that an apprentice (not a master tech) had done the entire inspection and came up with no problems except a different code having to do with up bad catalytic converter which had never been an issue before and told us we may need to get that replaced soon. The transmission code p0740 came up on our way home from the dealership. I told them of the code and the research I have done and asked what else to do and they told me there is nothing that can be done that is a transmission death code and we would need to replace the transmission, to which I asked even though it was just replaced 20,000 miles ago and he said maybe you got a bad transmission. Q: are they just all bad for this vehichle?.
Our 1999 Honda Odyssey has relatively low mileage (~125000 miles) and it has been diagnosed as having transmission problem again. When it only had about 30000 miles, it had a transmission problem and its replacement was covered under manufacture warranty at that time. We searched the internet and found that the transmission problem is a very common for Honda vehicles. We contacted America Honda and they told us it has already passed the warranty period and they would not help with the transmission repair. We paid full sticker price for this van 14 years ago and wish it can last up to 200000 miles. Now we are reluctant to pay for the high repair cost or we could not sell it at a satisfactory price. We are very unhappy with America Honda's response and totally lost our trust in Honda vehicles.
Transmission slipping and toque converter bad? had the trans replaced once before? this problem got dangerously worse when the ignition recalled switch cased excessive stalling at high rates of speed. Please help.
In 2008 we bought this van from the local Honda dealer in gresham, or. Shortly after we bought the vehicle we found out that our van was originally manufactured for sale in canada, and it was imported back in 1999 when the van was new. This information was never disclosed to us throughout the sale, and we only found out when we tried to have a second key made and the Honda dealer said that the VIN number didn't exist in their system. Honda refuses to do any recalls that have been issued for this vehicle in the USA or canada. This has led to the vehicle dying multiple times at highway speed due to faulty ignition switch that should've been replaced back in 2002 when it was recalled in both canada, and the us.