The 2004 Honda Odyssey has 10 recalls, the most serious being multiple Takata airbag inflator defects affecting both the driver and front passenger sides, where the inflators can rupture and send metal fragments into the cabin, causing serious injury or death.
The airbag concerns span several separate filings covering both frontal airbag positions. On the driver side, the inflator can explode and scatter sharp metal fragments toward the driver and other occupants. On the passenger side, the same rupture risk exists, and there is an additional concern that replacement passenger airbags may have been installed incorrectly, causing them to deploy improperly in a crash. A separate airbag recall covers inadvertent deployment of the frontal airbags without a crash, which itself raises injury risk.
On the fuel system side, the fuel pump can corrode and fail, stalling the engine without warning while driving. Two filings describe the same underlying problem, with water left in the fuel pump electrical connector during factory testing accelerating that corrosion.
There is also an ignition switch concern: the interlock lever can deform and allow the key to be removed while the transmission is still in a gear other than park, letting the vehicle roll away on its own.