Headlights Problems of Honda Odyssey

Since I purchased this vehicle the headlights dim way down and sometimes change intensity greatly every single time the a/c compressor clutch engages and draws current. All lighting across every system in the vehicle dims way down as well. That is, interior illumination, instrument console and panel, exterior marker lights. All lighting dims when the compressor clutch engages. The local dealership has tried a few things as instructed by the manufacturer but the situation has not been corrected. While out on freeways at night following behind other vehicles, the driver will become annoyed in front thinking that I am purposefully flickering or flashing the headlights to encourage them to speed up or move out of the way. This can cause a dangerous situation. This situation has been present since the vehicle was purchased in November 2018 and remains.

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Headlights: when the van was purchased I discovered several days later that the drivers side headlight was not working. Discovered the lights was not plugged in. December 18 & 27 the anti-theft system disabled. The dealership picked up van and said they repaired. I was told there was a connection that was not securely clipped together. When this happened I had been parked and away from the van for at least an hour on both occasions. When I started it to leave the error message was on the screen. Immediately contacted the dealership both times.

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Both clear glass covers ["lenses"?] over the headlights have developed a spiderweb network of cracks, very thin, over the entire lens. The car was never hit. It occurred gradually over time. It is a safety issue, because it diminishes the light output, and leads oncoming traffic to at times flash ther headlights as if my brights are on.

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My low beam headlight goes on and off intermittently. High beams work fine. After researching I found that Honda has had low beam headlight recalls in the past. Is there any way to get help fixing this?.

While parked, when starting the vehicle, the headlights and windshield wipers will not come on. After about an hour, they come back on. Happened twice so far. Only 9000 miles on the vehicle. The dealer says they have never heard of this. Can't find the cause of the problem.

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This was our first experience driving our new 2015 Honda Odyssey after dark. It was frightening when we found ourselves on a familiar country road and unable to see the usual landmarks which tell us where we are. The problem is with the low beam headlights. Illuminated vision is very bright on the road close to the vehicle but there is a line midway up the windshield above which it is totally black. This line bobs up and down with curves and dips in the road in a distracting manner which prevents your vision focusing. The light also does not extend very far in front of the vehicle even on flat parts of the road. This is begging for an accident. We could easily have hit a deer or even a human being walking or bicycling on the road had there been one. We stopped driving after dark until we could get an appointment with our dealership. Our dealer's mechanic informed us that cannot be fixed. He also said the chevy malibu has the same problem. I have located an online forum where the same problem is described for a 2011 Honda Odyssey and Honda's response to them was the same as to us. . Read more...

I was driving at night. I went to change my headlights from high beams to low beams. All the lights went off. I immediately stopped. The lever on the steering wheel was stuck. I pushed it forward forcefully and the lights came on again. I could not get issues to repeat itself.

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Headlights are aimed too low, dealership is charging me $85 dollars to have it adjusted as they said it is not covered by warranty, vehicle was leased as new; adjusted it myself but it is at the highest setting and still too low, added factory fog lamps but did not really help with forward illumination, lights are overrun by vehicle on highways going 65-70 mph. Vehicle is still under warranty , but I'm waiting for Honda to recall and replace these poorly designed headlamps. I do a lot of night driving as I work nights, I was not able to catch this on the test drive, as test drives are usually done in broad daylight.

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I just bought a 2012 Honda Odyssey. At night you can not see very well with the headlights. It leaves bad visualization of the road. It is like a black curtain over your windshield in dark country roads. I almost went into a ravine. Thank goodness I was going slow. I do not take this route much. But when going into very dark areas. It is a complete black out. I took it back to my dealer in mentor, ohio. At classic and the service man was very rude. And looked at me like I was out of my mind. I am a night nurse. Drive my kids around for functions. This really scares me. I see there are several other complaints. This is suppose to be a family vehicle. A safe vehicle. I see now why they need a good crash rating. It could happen cause of these headlights. Please help!.

Brand new vehicle, new model year, could be one of first. Headlights are as bright as the sun. Any bump or incline puts headlights into oncoming driver eyes. Majority flash me that my high beams are on. They are not. Honda says all perfect. I cannot look into light - it is sun-like. My headlights come up into oncoming eyes constantly - Honda says aimed perfectly. I assert that this is simply highly dangerous; Honda will do nothing for me. All is perfect, they say. Even if I don't cause someone else's accident, the quantity of people flashing me appears to be evidence of spreading anger, because I can do nothing. My sun-like lights 'flash' them again and again. Pity the poor driver in front of me, in my lane. My bulbs are halogen, not the 'high intensity discharge' type.

The headlights on the Odyssey illuminate too close to the car and not far enough down the road to see and it exasperated on hills going down where you really can't see ahead of your vehicle. At night there is a sharp black line on the wind shield where the lights stop illuminating above the line. I have to bend my head side ways to see under the black line where the light is. Very unsafe. I asked the Honda dealer about it and they said that the lights were at the correct level. I told them I can't see unless I bend my head side ways to see under the black line where the light illuminates the road. They raised the lights up for me a bit and now everyone flashes their lights at me indicating my lights are too bright. It is a disaster waiting to happen.

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The contact owns a 2012 Honda Odyssey. The contact stated the headlights do not project far enough for him to see while driving at night. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who adjusted the headlights but the contact stated it did not make a difference. The dealer also informed him that was caused by the design of the vehicle and offered no other assistance. The manufacturer stated they would give him a return call within the next two days. The failure mileage was 380.

Low beam headlights have suddenly dimmed. Both left and right low beam headlights are very dim, high beams are okay.

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Top alternator mounting bracket failed for the second time in one month. On first failure at night, headlights became very dim while vehicle was operating causing danger to occupants and other motorists. On second failure vehicle was close to home and no immediate hazard to driver or other motorists. Research shows this is a known component failure to Honda and nhtsb.

Hazy headlamps. This is a quote from popular mechanics that describes my problem better than I could: "most cars and a lot of trucks today are manufactured with headlamp assemblies that use quartz-halogen bulbs plugged into the back of a large plastic reflector. The outer surface of these headlamp modules is molded polycarbonate plastic. That plastic is much lighter than glass and far more resistant to stone chips and cracks. However, after a few years of exposure to sunlight and atmospheric chemicals, polycarbonate has a tendency to get hazy. " recently I thought one of my headlamps had gone out on my 2000 Honda Odyssey. Turned out the plastic headlamp cover is was just a total haze & mess and really knocking down the lamp light. I suspect the amount of light from my headlight is diminished by at least 50 percent, maybe more. Looking at other various other cars on a trip through a parking lot shows tons of others with identical problems. Not a hard problem to confirm. So my question why does the government permit car makers to use plastic for headlamp covers when every single car will, in time, have significantly diminished headlight output as a result of this hazy business? seems we're putting everybody at risk just to save a few bucks. This is clearly a safety issue. The simple, rational, intelligent solution seems to go back to requiring glass headlamp covers. Problem solved. Thanks for listening!.

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My complaint regarding my Honda Odyssey may be more of a manufacturer oversight that may not pose an immediate harm to its occupants/other drivers, but rather potential harm to its occupants other drivers. The problem is with the lights. The interior dash lights are on continuously, but the headlights only go on manually. While this is fine during the day, it poses the potential harm at night when the dash lights go on and they headlights do not. I live in a city and a few times at night while leaving a very lit area, I have failed to turn on my headlights because with the dashlights on I have forgotten. While these occurrences were my error, I feel that with car lighting it needs to be all or nothing. While the manufacturers may see this feature as a convenience I see it as a hazard. If the dash lights are on all of the time, then the headlights should be on. Driving without headlights on at night is hazardous to all around and as I said, I live in a city where it is brightly lit and many times the streets are so bright my headlights do not make that much of a difference for my lighting but rather just make me noticeable to others. I feel that this issue needs to be addressed and rectified. I know that other cars have an auto function, where the headlights can be left on all of the time to go on when it gets dark and this would be a safer feature than having them manually operated when the dash lights are on all of the time. Or they can make it so that the dash lights go on when the headlights are turned on. Like I said, with lights is needs to be all or nothing (all manual or all automatic, not half and half). It is just too confusing and in my case, likely to be forgotten. While this issue may not have caused harm yet, I do believe that it has sufficient potential to cause harm and therefore should be addressed. This is a failure on the manufacturers part to save money, but it has made a Mini van (which is known for safety) to feel unsafe. Estimated date.

The contact owns a 2000 Honda Odyssey with sylvainia silverstar ii, model number 90003/hb2 (na). The epc code is 046135317279. The contact purchased replacement headlight bulbs and eight months later, the light fixture failed. He feels that the light fixture should at least last a couple of years. He also feels that the bulbs may fail without warning due to the 200 hours of light the fixture offers. The manufacturer stated that the lights were designed to last only 200 hours and no compensation would be made. The mileage was not applicable.

The contact owns a 2005 Honda Odyssey. While driving approximately 60 mph at night, the passenger side low beam headlight bulb failed without warning. The driver replaced the headlight bulb, but the failure recurred. In addition, the driver's side low beam headlight bulb was replaced twice. The vehicle was taken to an auto electric shop for diagnostic testing, but the technician was unable to determine the cause of the failure. The VIN and mileages were unavailable.

Headlight plastic lens are deteriorating (becoming unclear,fogging) to the point that it limits the amount of light through to see where your going at night.

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2005 Honda Odyssey. The headlights running on dim on hilly county type roads make no light above about 10 feet. When going down an incline as the van is tilted forward the lights shine directly into the road with no sign of light forward to see the road ahead. Contacted the dealer and Honda they say this is normal.

2006 Honda Odyssey, dash board is illuminated during the day, as evening approaches its hard to tell you need to put you lights on. I often find myself driving into the night with no headlights on because of this. Others have expressed same concern regarding this safety hazard.

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Driving a 2005 Honda Odyssey, down a 2-lane country road at night in November, a deer was in the field. I slowed down because I did not know what the deer would do and there was another car that was going to pass me coming the other direction. When the deer saw my headlights, he ran into the passenger side breaking the headlight and denting the panel above the tire. No air bags deployed. I got out to check the damage and realized the van was still drivable. I put on my hazard lights and drove slowly less than 25 miles per hour. I than saw flames coming from the hood on the passenger side near the broken headlight. I pulled off the road onto the grass, turned off the car, got out and called 911. By the time the fire department came, the van was engulfed in flames under the hood and the flames were hitting the grass. The passenger side tire popped under the heat of the flames. The insurance company deemed the van a total loss. Information from insurance company said the computer behind the halogen light was the cause of the fire.

Recall 00v183000. Parts are not available. Dealer was contacted in auguat 2000.

No lights, can't start the car.