2005 Honda CR-V
This year drew an ordinary 479 complaints for a Honda CR-V — the model's median is 400. What they were about is the unusual part: 11.7% of them mention bulb, against 0.1% across the model's other years.
Generation 1 of the Honda CR-V, which began in 2002 and ran to 2006. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 479 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 400 |
| Involving a crash | 40 |
| Involving a fire | 18 |
| Recalls | 14 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- bulb — 11.7% of this year's complaints, against 0.1% across the model's other years (58.5×). Owners wrote it as: bulb, side headlight, headlight bulbs, low-beam.
- low — 30.9% of this year's complaints, against 9.4% across the model's other years (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: low, headlights, beam, low beam.
- takata — 11.1% of this year's complaints, against 1.6% across the model's other years (6.9×). Owners wrote it as: takata, schedule, inflator.
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.
What owners wrote
ABOUT EVERY MONTH WE HAVE HAD TO REPLACE THE FRONT LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS ON EITHER THE DRIVERS SIDE OR PASSENGER SIDE. WE HAVE REPLACE THE ENTIRE HEADLIGHT ASSM AND USE SURGICAL GLOVES TO PUT IN THE BULBS. THEY BLOW ON THE ROAD AND NOBODY CAN EXPLAIN WHY AND IT…
WHEN DRIVING DURING NIGHT HOURS, THE LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS FAILED AFTER DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 500 FEET. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHERE THEY ADVISED HIM THAT THE BULBS WERE NOT A PROBLEM AND THAT THE PROBLEM COULD HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY AN EL…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V182000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19E068000 VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL Fixed free of charge.
- 20V768000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 19V501000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V499000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V268000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V029000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V344000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 14. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda CR-V 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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