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Premature brake pad or rotor wear on the 2018 Honda Odyssey

Only 0 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.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $300–$1,400
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 77th

When premature brake pad or rotor wear gets reported

There are 1 report of premature brake pad or rotor wear on the 2018 Honda Odyssey. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 77th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $300–$1,400 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 8 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2007, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2006 at 35,000 miles.

By volume the 2007 carries the most reports, with 11; the 2018 has 0. 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. 1998 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear
    no odometer readings given
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  2. 1999 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear
    no odometer readings given
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  3. 2000 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear 45k
  4. 2001 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear 12k
  5. 2002 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear 79k
  6. 2003 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear 1k
  7. 2004 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear
    no odometer readings given
    —
  8. 2005 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear 15k
  9. 2006 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear 34k
  10. 2007 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear 10k
  11. 2008 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear 43k
  12. 2009 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear 15k
  13. 2010 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear 19k
  14. 2011 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear 26k
  15. 2012 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear 31k
  16. 2013 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear 24k
  17. 2014 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear 33k
  18. 2017 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear
    no odometer readings given
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  19. 2018 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  20. 2019 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear
    no odometer readings given
    —
  21. 2020 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear 3k
  22. 2021 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear
    no odometer readings given
    —
  23. 2025 Honda Odyssey premature brake pad or rotor wear
    no odometer readings given
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Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2018 Honda Odyssey

Lane keep or steering assist fault

210 reports median 21k

Other powertrain problem

123 reports median 30k

Cruise control failure

114 reports median 60k

Other electrical problem

108 reports median 13k

Other engine problem

106 reports median 46k

Other driver assistance problem

75 reports median 80k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report 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 1 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.

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