2007 Honda Odyssey at 56,000 miles
You did not give a mileage, so this uses 56,000 — the median reported failure mileage for this model year, which is a rough stand-in for “a typical example of this car”. Put your real reading in the box below for an answer about your car.
At 56,000 miles on this car
At 56,000 miles on a 2007 Honda Odyssey, 29 of the failure modes other owners have reported already have their median report at or below your reading, and 9 more fall inside the window where they are usually reported. The heaviest of the ones already due is other brake problem.
Already past the median 29
Half of all reports of these failures came in at or below where your car is now.
- Other brake problem 34k
- Air conditioning failure 20k
- Strut, shock or spring failure 40k
- Power steering pump or fluid leak 46k
- Master cylinder or brake booster failure 15k
- Seat belt or retractor failure 46k
- Other wheel or tire problem 39k
- Torque converter failure 41k
- ABS module or sensor failure 10k
- Premature brake pad or rotor wear 10k
- Other visibility problem 46k
- Wheel bearing or hub failure 40k
17 more.
You are in the window 9
Your reading falls inside the middle half of reports for these.
Typically later 27
Reported further down the road than where you are.
- Instrument cluster or gauge failure 63k
- No-start or intermittent start failure 67k
- Fuel pump failure 69k
- Tire blowout or tread separation 70k
- Lifter, cam or cylinder-deactivation failure 73k
- Excessive oil consumption 80k
- Sunroof failure or glass breakage 85k
- Steering column or shaft failure 86k
- Timing chain, belt or tensioner failure 89k
- Other fuel system problem 91k
- Catalytic converter failure 95k
- Other electrical problem 96k
15 more.
Timing unknown 4
Reported, but too few owners gave an odometer reading to place them.
- Other seat belt problem 2×
- Transmission slipping 1×
- Ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 1×
- Blower motor or climate control failure 1×
Why the list is generic until you type a number
Every figure below is a comparison against your odometer, so with no reading given the page has to pick one: 56,000 miles, roughly what a 2007 car covers at 12,000 miles a year. A reading 30,000 miles either side of that moves failures between the columns, which is the difference between a useful list and a generic one.
Already inside the reported range
29 failure modes on the 2007 Honda Odyssey have a median reported mileage at or below 56,000: other brake problem (median 34,000 miles, 168 reports), air conditioning failure (median 20,000 miles, 38 reports), strut, shock or spring failure (median 40,000 miles, 30 reports), power steering pump or fluid leak (median 45,000 miles, 28 reports), master cylinder or brake booster failure (median 15,000 miles, 25 reports) and seat belt or retractor failure (median 45,000 miles, 24 reports).
These are the ones worth mentioning to a mechanic by name at the next service. Being past a median is not being overdue — it means the reports cluster below where you are now, so if the failure was going to be typical, it would already have happened.
The window you are in now
9 further modes are reported in a band that includes 56,000 miles: other powertrain problem (41k to 97,500 miles), loss of braking (15k to 60,000 miles), other steering problem (33k to 100,000 miles), other suspension problem (50k to 90,000 miles), liftgate, tailgate or trunk failure (50k to 87,500 miles) and other speed control problem (37k to 90,000 miles). These are the ones to watch on this car over the next few thousand miles.
A window here is the 25th to 75th percentile of reported mileages, so it holds the middle half of the reports and excludes the tails on both sides.
Still ahead of you
27 further modes sit above your reading, the nearest being instrument cluster or gauge failure at a median of 65,000 miles. On a car you intend to keep, these are the ones that decide whether it is worth keeping.
What this list is not
It is a reading of what owners of other 2007 Honda Odysseys reported, and at what odometer reading they reported it. It is not a maintenance schedule, not a diagnosis, and not a prediction about this car: two identical cars with different service histories are not the same car.
Complaints are filed voluntarily, mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers, and a failure mode with few reports has a wide window even when the median looks precise. Modes with fewer than 8 dated reports are shown without percentiles for that reason.
Where 56,000 miles falls on the curve
The three columns above sort the failure modes one by one. This is the same evidence in aggregate: every dated report on this model year, stacked up in the order the odometer readings arrived. The dashed line marked you is where your car sits. How much of the line is to the left of that mark is how much of this model year's reported trouble is, on the evidence, already behind you.
About 44% of the dated reports on this model year had already been filed by 56,000 miles. That is the share of the problems that show up in this record, not of the problems this car will have. A further 29 reports came in above the top of the scale, which is why the line stops short of the top.
- Line share of reports filed by that mileage
- Dashed the mileages called out above
A steep early climb means a car whose reports cluster young, which is the pattern of a defect rather than of wear. A line that only gets going past six figures is the opposite. Neither shape says anything about the specific car in your driveway, and a curve built from a few dozen readings can be moved by one owner with a talkative afternoon.
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Questions this page answers
What should I expect at 56,000 miles on a 2007 Honda Odyssey?
29 of the failure modes owners have reported on the 2007 Honda Odyssey have a median report at or below 56,000 miles, and 9 more fall inside the mileage window where they are usually reported. That is a watch list drawn from other owners, not a prediction about this car.
How to use the three columns. The left column is the list to hand a mechanic before you buy, and to check the service history for if you already own the car. The middle column is what to budget for this year. The right column is not a reprieve — it is a reminder that a used car has a bill schedule, and this is roughly where it falls. All of it is drawn from 1,039 owner complaints about this exact model year, not from a maintenance manual. How the percentiles are computed.
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