Two problems related to tailgate have been reported for the 2006 Honda Odyssey. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2006 Honda Odyssey based on all problems reported for the 2006 Odyssey.
Power tailgate opened and came right down hitting my wife. She was not hurt. When we purchased the Honda we were told this would not happen that there was a safety system that would make the tailgate go back up if it came down on a person or object. Which is what it has done in the past. We have an appointment to take the car into the dealer Honda of sumner at 7:30 am on 8/12/2013 to have them look at it. We took it into today and a guy ( not a service guy looked at it and said he didn't know what was causing the problem. ) I did some research and it appears to be a tailgate strut problem which I understand is a recall on 2008-2009 models. Action number ea08-015.
My car is a Honda Odyssey touring 2006. I remotely opened the tailgate and stepped under it to put up the third row seat. The tailgate unexpectedly began to lower and hit me in the head pretty hard. I then tried again thinking it was an error and was almost hit again. The third time I tried to stop the door from going down but could not. Now the tailgate will not remain open and I can no longer safely get access to my children's things in the back of the van. It was scary and unnerving to me when this happened because I could not stop the tailgate from going down. There was no safety for me to stop it.