Just picked up my top of the line Touring today and within 3 miles of driving it off the lot, I was reversing out of a parking spot in a shopping mall and then pressed the brake before pressing the button for drive, as usual. Then the car suddenly halted to a stop and I saw that the transmission had jumped into Park by itself. So I pressed the brake again and pressed Drive again and as soon as I lifted my foot off the brake, the transmission would jump or throw itself into park by itself. I pressed the accelerator and nothing. Tried it again but tried to put it into Neutral this time so I could push it off the laneway where I was embarrassingly blocking traffic and getting honked at. But same thing...I even saw the light go from the Neutral to Park by itself. Turned off the car and tried again and same thing. A mechanic came by and said he could help until he saw the new Honda transmission and all he could offer was to push the brake pedal harder to disengage the brake but still nothing. We checked the parking brake, made sure it was off and the parking brake hold was off too throughout this episode.
Anyways, with a baby in the back, cars lining up and honking, I called Honda Link who connected me to Auto Assistance who offered to call the Police and a tow truck. After about 20-30 minutes with the assistance of a number of drivers offering to push the car (but seeing that the car couldn't even stay in Neutral), I turned off the car again, powered on, and then pressed the brake before pressing the Drive button and all of a sudden it worked. Drove 5 minutes back home and now scared to touch the $50,000+ car. Man, how I miss the traditional shifters.
Has anyone experienced this and is it a transmission electrical problem or hopefully as a newbie to the 2018 Odyssey, did I press something incorrectly? Please help since we were planning to do some family driving trips in the Odyssey and now I'm scared to drive the thing. haha...after 20+ years of driving, I've never been scared to drive until today....at least let me leave it in neutral so I can push the car. Wow!
After doing a much of research, my guess is that it could be a malfunction of the Odyssey automatically shifting the transmission to Park assuming the driver parked but forgot to take it off Drive. Or something with the parking brake engaging by itself and not disengaging.
Any thoughts??
Anyways, with a baby in the back, cars lining up and honking, I called Honda Link who connected me to Auto Assistance who offered to call the Police and a tow truck. After about 20-30 minutes with the assistance of a number of drivers offering to push the car (but seeing that the car couldn't even stay in Neutral), I turned off the car again, powered on, and then pressed the brake before pressing the Drive button and all of a sudden it worked. Drove 5 minutes back home and now scared to touch the $50,000+ car. Man, how I miss the traditional shifters.
Has anyone experienced this and is it a transmission electrical problem or hopefully as a newbie to the 2018 Odyssey, did I press something incorrectly? Please help since we were planning to do some family driving trips in the Odyssey and now I'm scared to drive the thing. haha...after 20+ years of driving, I've never been scared to drive until today....at least let me leave it in neutral so I can push the car. Wow!
After doing a much of research, my guess is that it could be a malfunction of the Odyssey automatically shifting the transmission to Park assuming the driver parked but forgot to take it off Drive. Or something with the parking brake engaging by itself and not disengaging.
Any thoughts??
