Other powertrain problem on the 2001 Honda Odyssey
1 crash 3 injuries 4 of the 171 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.
When other powertrain problem gets reported
Owners of the 2001 Honda Odyssey report other powertrain problem at a median of 106,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 80,000 miles and a quarter after 137,000 miles, from 142 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 92,000 miles. It is the 1st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 55,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 163,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 107,320 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
7% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55,426 miles | 79,630 miles | 105,823 miles | 136,500 miles | 162,746 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, 1 a crash and 3 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 $400–$4,500 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 2014, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2025 at 155,000 miles.
By volume the 2002 carries the most reports, with 333; the 2001 has 171. 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.
Transmission problems on 2001 odyssey's aren't limited to us models. We purchased a canadian model, and are on the 3rd transmission, and none of our local dealerships will assist us because it's a canadian model. Dealer was informed that the vehicle was canadian model, and that we didn't know what the warranty coverage was. Dealer informed us that 2nd transmission was covered under warranty, and then sued us because they couldn't collect from american or canadian honda. We have been a loyal honda product consumer, but the treatment we've received for such has been a severe disappointment. We won't be purchasing honda in the future. *ak
I almost had an accident when my honda 2001 odyssey suddenly downshifted while doing about 50 MPH. The shifting was crazy and highly erratic. It has been fixed by the dealer but has to begged for a loaner car from the manufacturer. *la
The transmissionis failing on my 3-year-old honda odyssey at 65,500 miles. Honda admits they have a problem. The transmission needs to be replaced and they will not do it under warranty because they say the vehicle is a "gray market" car. It was produced in canada like all other 2001 odyssey's and "imported" to the usa one-year-old with 18,000 miles. I bought it used. Honda says they won't cover it under their newly announced extended warranty on defective transmissions because it was intended to be driven in canada. I did not realize that canadian roads were so different from those in minnesota. I asked if that meant that they were implying that I did something illegal. They said "oh no, but "brokers" bring these cars in from canada because there is a shortage in the usa and the prices are less in canada." somehow it is my fault that honda usa price fixing creates a gray market? Does the vehicle not say honda all over it? Was it not made on the same line in the same plant with the same parts as all of the other 2001 odyssey's? Is corporate divisional infighting putting me the consumer in the middle? They make a defective tranny…
Also reported on the 2001 Honda Odyssey
Complete transmission failure
Other body or interior problem
Strut, shock or spring failure
Airbag inflator rupture
Other suspension problem
Seat belt or retractor failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 171 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 powertrain problem happen on the 2001 Honda Odyssey?
Across 142 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 106,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 80,000 miles and a quarter after 137,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other powertrain problem on the 2001 Honda Odyssey?
171 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 3.1 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