NHTSA Complaint #11065374 — 2016 HONDA ODYSSEY

(1)VEHICLE PROPULSION TEMPORARY SHUTS DOWN WHEN STARTING FROM A STOPPED CONDITION. THIS HAPPENS AS PULLING ACROSS TRAFFIC, MAKING LEFT TURNS, ETC. THIS COULD CAUSE A SERIOUS T-BONE ACCIDENT. (2)PROBLEM IS RANDOM AND OCCURS WITHOUT WARNING. (3)THIS SHUT DOWN PROBLEM HAS OCCURRED NUMEROUS TIMES IN LESS THAN 8,000 MILES. (4)VEHICLE HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY RETURNED TO JEFF WYLER DIXIE HIGHWAY HONDA DEALERSHIP FOR FIRMWARE, ETC. FIX. (5)THEY HAVE NOT FIXED THIS PROBLEM. IT HAS AGAIN OCCURRING. MOST RECENTLY ON 1/26/2018. IT WAS SEVERE ENOUGH THAT A SIDE COLLISION ACCIDENT COULD HAVE OCCURRED IN HEAVIER TRAFFIC. WE WERE PULLING ACROSS FOUR(4) LANE TRAFFIC AT AN INTERSECTION WITHOUT A STOP LIGHT WHEN THE LOSS OF POWER HAPPENED. AGAIN, THE ENGINE SEEMS TO JUST QUICKLY SHUT DOWN AND YOU QUICKLY WONDER IF IT WILL RUN BEFORE VEHICLE WILL AGAIN ACCELERATE. A PREVIOUS INCIDENT CAUSED ME TO START TO DIRECT CAR TO OUT OF TRAFFIC AREA AT END OF MEDIAN WHILE MAKING A LEFT TURN ACROSS TRAFFIC AT INTERSECTION AFTER ACCELERATION STOPPED DUE TO ENGINE, ETC SHUTTING DOWN. (6)DOCUMENTING THIS IN HOPES OF HONDA INC. DEALERSHIP, JEFF WYLER DIXIE HIGHWAY HONDA WILL PERMANENTLY FIX THIS PROBLEM BEFORE A SERIOUS ACCIDENT OCCURS. (7)THIS PROBLEM AND INFORMATION IS ALSO BEING DOCUMENTED IN CASE A SERIOUS ACCIDENT DOES HAPPEN AND CAN PROVIDE MYSELF OR ESTATE SURVIVORS WITH DOCUMENTATION TO SUE THE PRINCIPALS INVOLVED.