2021 Honda CR-V Hybrid
Complaints about this year name turning far more often than the model's other years — 10% of them, about 8× the usual rate of 1.3%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 418 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 74 |
| Involving a crash | 19 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 38 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- turning — 11.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the model's other years (4.1×). Owners wrote it as: turning, steering gear, turning left.
- driving highway — 6.5% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (3.3×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
Also unusual this year
- behind — 13% of complaints, 4× usual
- happened — 16% of complaints, 3× usual
- sticky — 7% of complaints, 11× usual
What owners wrote
The car was suddenly stopped by the automatic braking system at a time when there was nothing else around me and I was moving forward under normal driving conditions. This happened during acceleration around 20-25 mph. Thankfully, there was no one behind me as…
The forward collision warning and braking has activated a couple of times without any car front of me for a wide distance or when everything is all clear. It also happened a couple of times when turning a curve or exiiting, also without any car in front of me.…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V844000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 24V064000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 26V332000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda CR-V Hybrid was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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