Other brake problem on the 2001 Honda Odyssey
2 crashes 1 injury 3 of the 12 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
Only 7 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.
When other brake problem gets reported
There are 12 reports of other brake problem on the 2001 Honda Odyssey, 7 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 13th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 101,000 miles | — | — |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 2 a crash and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $300–$1,800 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 27 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2024, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 1998 at 170,000 miles.
By volume the 2007 carries the most reports, with 168; the 2001 has 12. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Very noisy squeal rear brakes when not worn. Startling when braking. So loud that they mask the warning noise that the brakes would make when they were actually worn, thus making warning noise ineffective. Local honda dealer acknowledged that this is an obnoxious problem on 01 odysseys. Honda american acknowledged the problem and issued a tsb but refused to pay for any repairs on grounds that it was a "characteristic of the vehicle". *tr
Tl*the contact owns 2001 honda odyssey. The contact stated as she approached a traffic light and depressed the brake pedal, the vehicle continued to accelerate through a traffic light and caused her to lose control of the vehicle. The vehicle hit a tree and rolled over three times. The road conditions were not a factor. She had to go to the hospital with injuries to the left shoulder. A police report is available if needed. The honda manufacturer was not called. The vehicle had routine maintenance performed prior to the failure. The VIN was unknown. The failure mileage was 100,000.
I had a 2001 honda odyssey with 169,000 miles on it. I was the only owner, and it was in very good condition. On jan, 6, 2011 at 12:50 in the afternoon I was southbound on I-43 in milwaukee and exited at the mckinley/fond du lac exit. Despite repeatedly pumping and pressing on the brakes, I was unable to stop the van. I was able to slow it down with great effort, but was unable to fully stop it. In order to avoid driving into cross-traffic on fond d lac ave. At the light at the bottom on the exit ramp, I turned up onto a sidewalk/grassy area. The van suddenly accelerated and, in order to stop it, I intentionally drove it into an abutment/concrete wall that is part on an underpass that goes under I-43. I was in no way impaired, and am certain that I did not have my foot on the accelerator. In fact, after the accident, I looked down to make sure and my foot was still on the brake. The van was totaled and eventually destroyed. I do not know what the cause of the unintended acceleration was. A field adjustor for my insurance company said he checked the cable and the placement of the floor mats. Neither was a cause. *tr
Also reported on the 2001 Honda Odyssey
Other powertrain problem
Complete transmission failure
Other body or interior problem
Strut, shock or spring failure
Airbag inflator rupture
Other suspension problem
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 12 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.
Complaints are voluntary, so 12 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other brake problem happen on the 2001 Honda Odyssey?
Across 7 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 100,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other brake problem on the 2001 Honda Odyssey?
12 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed