40 problems related to warnings have been reported for the 2018 Honda Odyssey. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2018 Honda Odyssey based on all problems reported for the 2018 Odyssey.
Vehicle suddenly shifts to nuetral when driving forward at approximately 30mph to 55mph. The collision warning system and the emergency braking system then shows falt/inoperative on the information display. This is an extremely dangerous situation that causes the vehicle to suddenly lose forward power.
Both the dashboard and the computer shut down randomly, different warning signs pop up intermittently and the wheel locks up for a short time. It happens while driving at unpredictable times. It happened on the highway at the speed of 65 mph. And the vehicle is temporarily is not under driver’s control. Yes, I took the vehicle for repair 3 times. Yes, the certified car dealership had identified different issues but none of them had fixed the problem. No, not by insurance or the manufacturer. No, no warning signs prior. First it happened in July, 2022.
Our 2018 Honda Odyssey elite has intermittent issues with the auto start/stop feature. As context, the car engine will automatically stop when the vehicle is fully stopped, for example at a red light, and a few other conditions are met (brake pedal pressure, battery charge, electrical load). Our vehicle when auto stopped may stall when attempting to resume driving. When the driver releases the brake pedal and pushes the accelerator pedal, the car fails to auto start, or auto starts with warning messages. When the car fails to start, a variety of warning messages will be displayed on the dashboard. Remediation varies. The car may respond to shifting to park and pushing the ignition start/stop button twice. At times, the car may not respond to shifting to park and ignition button actions. The only fix then seems to be a �hard� shutoff that requires opening the driver door and pushing the ignition button, closing the door, pushing the ignition button, and shifting to drive. When the system partially fails, the front collision warning/mitigation system is temporarily disabled. My car is current on all recalls. I recently had dealer service, and they confirmed there are no known bulletins for this issue. The car is current on maintenance schedule and is otherwise in very good operation condition. This situation car be quite stressful when at a busy intersection, or when trying to pull out to merge into a major road from a stop. This failure could be very dangerous if you needed to move the vehicle quickly, for example if stopped near a railroad crossing. The auto start/stop system is enabled by default to improve fuel economy. It can be manually disabled, however it resets with each shutoff. I would permanently disable it, however, that is not possible apparently for epa reasons. I have videos showing this behavior.
The power steering stopped working while I was driveing. The lights for power steering, break problem, lane keeping assistant system and lane departure migration lights are all on in the dashboard. The power steering was hard to turn.
The auto idle on my van has cause problems for over three years. I have reported this to our Honda dealership numerous times. The car dies when I am stopped and I try to take off. Everything in car shuts off - dashboard, a/c, radio, etc. When it does not all the way die when I try to go from a stop, all my collision mitigation warnings start flashing and a few times my car has braked itself. They have blamed it on my battery twice - once they replaced and the next time they made me pay for the battery. Then, they tried to blame it on the master computer switch because my door locks would just lock and unlock as I would drive down the road. They ordered the chip in February 2022 and finally replaced it in August 2022. The van has started locking and unlocking again, collision mitigation warnings go off for no reason, and auto idle is starting to kill the van again when I try to take off.