On Feb 12, 9:41 pm, High Tech Misfit <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> Woody wrote:
> > Before you harp all the praise on the jap cars look at the 2002 Odyssey
> > problems onwww.odyclub.com. With their transmission, EGR, IAC valve and
> > other problems they are far worse than the problems you had on the Venture.
> > The reliability is no better there.
>
> Woody, would you please do this newsgroup a favor... SHUT THE HELL UP!!!
>
> Once again, here's a reality check for you. Honda extended warranties
> and/or issued recalls for many of those issues. If you look at long-term
> reliability data in Consumer Reports or just about any other source, they
> will say that Odyssey is still more reliable than any big 3 minivan.
> Venture (since "replaced" by Upchucker, uh, I mean Uplander) is saddled with
> a V6 that is prone to the expensive-to-fix intake manifold gasket problem
> that GM still refuses to acknowledge. Ford and Crapsler minivans still have
> higher rates of tranny failure than the Odyssey, and they never issued
> recalls or extended warranties for them.
>
> BTW, the OP is looking at a new Odyssey. The tranny issue was resolved by
> the time it was redesigned for 2005.

Yeah, Honda just mailed out like last week the notices of extended
warranties for the transmissions on all those Odysseys and the other
models with the problem. Meanwhile, I know lots of people with
Odysseys of that vintage, and none of them have actually encountered
the problem.