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Other wheel or tire problem on the 2005 Honda Odyssey

Reports of this failure 29
With an odometer reading 20
Reports per 1,000 built 0.2 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 70%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $200–$1,500
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 12th

When other wheel or tire problem gets reported

Owners of the 2005 Honda Odyssey report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 20,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 15,000 miles and a quarter after 55,000 miles, from 20 reports that carried an odometer reading.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 12th most-reported problem on this model year.

The mileage distribution

The reported range runs from 10,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 80,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 68,124 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.

70% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 20 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
12,000 miles 14,500 miles 18,650 miles 56,250 miles 80,124 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

Putting it right typically runs $200–$1,500 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 18 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2004 at 105,000 miles.

By volume the 2006 carries the most reports, with 30; the 2005 has 29. 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.

Median
  1. 1997 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 120k
  2. 1998 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  3. 1999 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 97k
  4. 2000 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 100k
  5. 2001 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 94k
  6. 2002 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 38k
  7. 2003 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 60k
  8. 2004 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 105k
  9. 2005 (this one) 19k
  10. 2006 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 35k
  11. 2007 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 39k
  12. 2008 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 74k
  13. 2009 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 31k
  14. 2010 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 49k
  15. 2011 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 30k
  16. 2012 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 15k
  17. 2013 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 16k
  18. 2014 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 88k
  19. 2015 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 13k
  20. 2016 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 32k
  21. 2018 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 9k
  22. 2019 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  23. 2020 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 10k
  24. 2021 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem 22k
  25. 2023 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  26. 2024 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  27. 2025 Honda Odyssey other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —

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.

My wife was driving our 2005 honda odyssey (14500 miles) at 60 MPH on a smooth dry highway when the right rear tire exploded. The tire separated into three parts, left and right sidewall and tread. The tire was a michelin energy lx4 235-65-16, original equipment on the odyssey. Inflation pressure was normal, having been checked two days earlier. Temperature was approximately 65 deg. There were four women with their weekend luggage on board, certainly weighing less than the rated load of the vehicle and the tires. Since she was 200 miles from home, she had to buy another tire (off brand) at the nearest tire shop. The failed tire was later taken to discount tire in lake worth, tx for replacement with a correct tire. *nm

14,500 miles NHTSA complaint 577823 filed 2006-03-31

My wife was driving our 2005 honda odyssey (14500 miles) at 60 MPH on a smooth dry highway when the right rear tire exploded. The tire separated into three parts, left and right sidewall and tread. The tire was a michelin energy lx4 235-65-16, original equipment on the odyssey. Inflation pressure was normal, having been checked two days earlier. Temperature was approximately 65 deg. There were four women with their weekend luggage on board, certainly weighing less than the rated load of the vehicle and the tires. Since she was 200 miles from home, she had to buy another tire (off brand) at the nearest tire shop. The failed tire was later taken to discount tire in lake worth, tx for replacement with a correct tire. *nm

14,500 miles NHTSA complaint 577824 filed 2006-03-31

Multiple issues and incidents. Overall significant cooling system design flaws combined with tow package install mistakes leave the cooling lines un-secure and unprotected. 2 AC line punctures, 5 power steering grinding repair attempts to no avail. *nm

3,000 miles NHTSA complaint 608112 filed 2007-01-01

Also reported on the 2005 Honda Odyssey

Other body or interior problem

115 reports median 90k

Other engine problem

96 reports median 91k

Other powertrain problem

58 reports median 81k

Air conditioning failure

53 reports median 51k

Other brake problem

50 reports median 24k

Other steering problem

49 reports median 53k

How far this goes

Complaints are voluntary, so 29 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 wheel or tire problem happen on the 2005 Honda Odyssey?

Across 20 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 20,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 15,000 miles and a quarter after 55,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other wheel or tire problem on the 2005 Honda Odyssey?

29 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