Front Seat Power Adjust Problems of Honda Odyssey

A metal bracket riveting the driver seat bottom to the power seat structure has torn through due to metal fatigue. This allows the whole drive seat to move freely within a few inches of travel during acceleration and turning.

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A bracket (Honda p/n 507688 r10) that connects a driver power seat adjusting motor to the seat frame failed at one (towards the front of the vehicle) of two rivet holes. The bracket is part of the seat adjuster assembly 81630-s0x-a21. The bracket is a stamped steel piece attached to a primary seat support brace with two compressed rivets approximately 1/4" in diameter. Numerous cracks were exhibited radiating from the remaining rivet hole and remainder of the failed rivet hole. The initial half of the fracture exhibits typical characteristics of a fatigue fracture with the last part of fracture showing ductile fracture associated with high load. I spent 10 years as a practicing metallurgist performing hundreds of failure analyzes. Bracket failure renders the driver seat as a serious danger to the driver in the event of a crash as the seat is essentially now only attached from the rear two points. The front attachments are not functional upon bracket failure thus turning the driver into a bobble head person. Additional cracks radiating from the bracket rivet holes indicate a potential design load issue, a possible material defect in the bracket, or an over-zealous rivet compression issue. It is highly likely that similar cracks exist in brackets utilizing the same design and/or manufacturing batch. Such cracks are very likely to propagate into a failure under the high loads caused by an accident significantly increasing the danger to the driver of a vehicle in such a crash.

A metal bracket riveting the driver seat bottom to the power seat structure has torn through due to metal fatigue. This allows the whole drive seat to move freely within a few inches of travel during acceleration and turning.

My wife complained that the drivers seat felt loose. I found that the support for the seat back was splitting due to metal fatigue. (this is a fully automatic power seat. There is only one support holding seat back upright. I had the seat welded at a service garage.

Driver power seat base broke making the seat unstable and unsafe. The vehicle is undrivable. If there was an accident, the seat belt would keep me from going forward, but then the seat would jolt back and most likely flip me backwards into the seat behind me or my child if he were in the seat!.

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The driver's seat has bad joints that let it rock from front to back. We have had the subwoofer installed under the seat by the dealership and they have checked the seat and have said this normal for the seat to do this.

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While driving, the electrical driver seat would inadvertently move back and forth. Please provide additional information.

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Power seat will activate itself when driver sits on it, without touching any controls. The seat moves forward pinning the driver into the steering wheel. The seat just activates itself. I am not an overweight person. It only happens when first entering the vehicle and sitting down on the driver's seat. This anomolie happens quite often.

After the replacement of seatback power button, the button on the front left seatback control was sticking, and lowered the seat back all the way once.

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After the replacement of seatback power button, the button on the front left seatback control was sticking, and lowered the seat back all the way once.

Power seatback moves on its own!.

Intermittently power-operated seat will recline on its own, squeezing the rear occupant's legs. Dealer has not been able to duplicate the problem.

Power seat button malfunctioned, causing seat to recline onto the rear passenger.

Power adjusting driver's seat would recline by itself intermittently. Vehicle been inspected by two different dealers, and both were unable to locate problem.

Problems with power driver seat. I set the recline position in the furthest upright position out of personal preference. Every time I get in the car I have to incline to seat to its most upright because the seat always has reclined to some degree. The degree the seat reclines varies every day. Ocassionally when I exit my vehicle, the seat will automatically recline all the way down when I have not even touched the power seat controls. This has been an ongoing nuisance and my dealer has not been able to resolve this issue. Problem is that this problem is hard to duplicate while at the dealer service department.

Driver's front seat was very loose. Electric power mechanism would either cause it to tilt forwards or backwards on its own. Other seats do not move. Have taken to dealership at least twice for repairs. Dealership was finally offering a new seat.