Other electrical problem on the 2010 Honda Odyssey
2 fires 3 injuries 5 of the 19 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 electrical problem gets reported
Owners of the 2010 Honda Odyssey report other electrical problem at a median of 45,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 80,000 miles, from 10 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 85,000 miles. It is the 4th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 700 miles at the tenth percentile to 95,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 94,287 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
50% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 713 miles | 6,590 miles | 46,750 miles | 80,375 miles | 95,000 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 fire 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 $250–$2,000 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 29 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2011, at a median of 2,500 miles, and latest on the 2025 at 205,000 miles.
By volume the 2018 carries the most reports, with 108; the 2010 has 19. 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.
I have just bought a 2010 honda odyssey on october 16, 2009. On january 16, 2010, I was driving in new york city traffic stopped at a light behind several cars. Suddenly the car's engine started to race and lurched forward even with my foot on the brake. For several seconds the car kept lurching forward as I tried to step down on the brake even harder. As suddenly the unintended acceleration stopped. I came within inches of crashing into the car in front of me. I have four passengers in the car who witnessed this event at the time. *tr
Tl*the contact owns a 2010 honda odyssey. The contact stated that the backup sensor failed and the volume was not loud enough for him to hear when the vehicle was in reverse. Everything in the vehicle was turned off whenever he drove approximately 5 MPH in reverse. The vehicle was taken to the dealer and they informed him that they were unable to turn up the volume because of the design on the sensor. The honda manufacturer was called and they would not let him speak with the engineer in regards to the volume and the design. The contact stated that he wanted the dealer to increase the volume when the vehicle was in reverse. There was no maintenance performed on the vehicle prior to the failure. The failure mileage was 380.
Tl*the contact owns a 2010 honda odyssey. Upon parking the vehicle he was unable to unlock any of the doors. The anti theft system began to sound after repeated attempts to exit the vehicle. The incident was reported to the police who informed him to move the key back and forth inside of the ignition which allowed the doors to unlock and the contact to exit the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer who was unable to diagnose the failure and the computer system was reset. The failure and current mileages were 5,120. Updated 01/14/11*lj
Also reported on the 2010 Honda Odyssey
Other body or interior problem
Other brake problem
Other engine problem
Misfire or rough idle
Other powertrain problem
Other speed control problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 19 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 electrical problem happen on the 2010 Honda Odyssey?
Across 10 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 45,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 5,000 miles and a quarter after 80,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other electrical problem on the 2010 Honda Odyssey?
19 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 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