Originally Posted By: JOD
Originally Posted By: hypervish
Originally Posted By: JOD
Originally Posted By: DanielinTheLions
Looking to buy a used mini-van. I usually think of Honda as being a good quality buy but I've been reading some reviews on the 2004 model and it sounds like a ton of major automatic transmission problems often costing in excess of $3000 to repair. From the reviews looks like about 2000 to 2004 are the worse years but other years have issues to. Any body have any experiences with these Honda Vans? Trying to decide if they are a worthy buy or a definite avoid.
Maybe this will help:
My neighbor has the old "Accord Odyssey", a '98 with the different transmission and 4 cylinder engine, and that is a really solid car. If you're looking in the '99-'04 range, I'd look elsewhere. Post '05, the Sienna transmission actually looks more problematic than the Odyssey, but reputation is a hard thing to get back.
That graph is inaccurate.
The Caravan/GC/T&C had many, many more transmission problems than what's showed.
The Sienna has never had any known transmission issues. They are pretty bulletproof.
The Odyssey had a bad transmission in other years too, not just 2002. It's very unlikely that it only peaked that one year. It just shows how useless this chart is.
The data were simply taken from the nhsta website at the time of publishing. If you have data that show differently, feel free to post it up. But the plural of anecdote is not data.
I also think that if you look at the actual numbers on the chart you'll realize that they show the Odyssey is pretty bad for several years, not just one. Even in 2004 the number of problems look to be more than double that of other minivans.
I understand that the numbers are still higher compared to other vans, but those numbers don't make sense.
Either way, we know the Odyssey has a terrible transmission. No chart is going to change that. lol
The main issue I have with that chart is in regards to the T&C and such minivans. The transmissions in those vans suck (my Grand Caravan went through 4 transmissions), and they are still having problems with them in the latest generation. There is no way they had less issues than any of the two vans combined even.