A quiet 127 complaints, but two of them keep recurring: rear coil springs snapping, and an engine that won't restart at the lights.

Auto idle-stop switches the engine off when you come to a halt and is meant to restart it as you lift off the brake. On the 2022, owners repeatedly report it not restarting: 'the auto idle stop did not restart the engine and the van stalled in traffic multiple times', with the owner's workaround being to switch the feature off every single drive. Others report the engine dying at a light with idle-stop supposedly not even enabled, and one describes the van putting itself into Park and shutting off when coming to a stop. Several report the battery being killed and replaced. Honda has acknowledged the same condition on later vans, asking dealers to inspect and collect parts from 2023 to 2025 Odysseys with 'a no auto re-start condition after going into an auto idle stop' — but that is an open investigation naming other model years, not a programme, and there is no recall on the 2022. Sit through a dozen stop-and-go cycles with the feature left on.

Two open airbag recalls describe opposite failures and both matter. Recall 26V-227 covers a software programming error that can make the side and side-curtain airbags deploy unexpectedly; dealers reprogram or replace the airbag control unit free, and owner letters went out in May 2026. Recall 24V-064, expanded by 26V-332, covers the front-passenger seat weight sensor cracking and short-circuiting so the airbag is not suppressed as it should be and can deploy unintentionally in a crash; dealers replace the sensor free. Owners of the 2022 report exactly the symptom 26V-227 describes: all passenger-side curtain airbags going off after driving over a pothole with no tyre, wheel or frame damage, and the driver's-side airbag deploying with no collision. Check both campaigns by VIN — an unexpected airbag deployment in a van full of children is not a paperwork issue.

Two recalls are specific to the 2022 alone. Recall 21V-432 covers second-row outboard seats with deformed seat-rail locking mechanisms, which could stop the rails locking into place so the seat moves unexpectedly; dealers replace both seat frames free. On a van where the second row holds child seats, this is the one to check first. Recall 21V-768 covers Bridgestone tyres containing a pinhole that causes a slow air leak, failing the federal tyre standard; dealers inspect all four and replace any affected tyre free. Beyond the recalls, one owner reports a second-row seat belt jamming and trapping a child in the rear right seat — a single report, but a reason to work every belt in the van through its full travel and buckle and unbuckle each one before you buy.

Three smaller patterns. Two separate owners report the glass sunroof shattering on its own while driving, with no prior damage and consistent dealer servicing — a small number, but the 2017 shows the same thing, so it is a known Odyssey behaviour rather than a one-off, and there is no recall for it. Second, one owner's power tailgate stopped working one month after the warranty expired, which matches the water-intrusion pattern that dominates the 2021 and 2023 — worth checking the boot floor for damp. Third, Honda's own technical bulletin for 2018 to 2022 vans admits an unresolved fault: the sliding-door windows stop partway and roll back down when you use one-touch Auto-Up, caused by a software mismatch between the switch and the window regulator, and Honda's guidance to dealers reads 'there is currently no recommended repair'. The workaround is to close those windows manually with light pressure on the switch.

Worth stating, because it is the argument for paying more for a late fifth-generation van. The connecting-rod-bearing recall — an engine failure serious enough that dealers replace the whole motor — stops at 2019, as does the timing-belt recall. The sliding-door latch recall, where a door could open while you were driving, stops at 2019, and the frozen-handle-cable recall stops at 2020. The nine-speed transmission of the launch years is gone, replaced by a ten-speed, and a dealership technician who services these vans reports few failures across either. The windshield camera that runs Honda Sensing, which dominates complaints on 2018 to 2020, barely registers here — one owner reports the collision-mitigation system braking with nothing ahead, which is a different and much smaller signal. The 2022's problems are a spring, a restart and some glass.