Vehicle
Honda Odyssey
The V6 minivan. High family mileage plus cylinder deactivation makes it a regular in misfire threads; sliding-door and body electrics stay out of the powertrain corpus but dominate ownership forums.
Generations
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RA and RL 1994–2010
The J-series V6 with powered sliding doors, whose motors and position sensors generate more complaints than the powertrain does.
- Body styles
- MPV
- Platform
- Honda Global Midsize
- Engines
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- 2.2 four-cylinder — F22B6 · petrol · F22
- 2.3 four-cylinder — F23A7 · petrol · F23
- 3.5 V6 — J35 · petrol
- Transmissions
- 4-speed B7XA automatic · 5-speed BYBA automatic
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
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Fourth generation 2010–2017
The North American minivan; J-series V6 with cylinder deactivation, so a misfire code may describe that mechanism.
- Body styles
- MPV
- Platform
- Honda Global Midsize
- Engines
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- 3.5 V6 i-VTEC — J35Z8 · petrol · 339 Nm (250 lb-ft) · J35 with cylinder deactivation
- Transmissions
- 5-speed automatic · 6-speed automatic
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
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Fifth generation 2017–present
Ten-speed automatic on later cars; the sliding doors are their own electrical surface.
- Body styles
- MPV
- Platform
- Honda Global Midsize
- Engines
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- 3.5 V6 i-VTEC — J35Y6 · petrol · 355–362 Nm (262–267 lb-ft)
- Transmissions
- 10-speed automatic · 9-speed ZF 9HP automatic
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
CAN data
Bus databases covering this vehicle, mirrored from the open-source opendbc project.
Service information
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