2007 Honda CR-V
This year drew an ordinary 885 complaints for a Honda CR-V — the model's median is 400. What they were about is the unusual part: 39.7% of them mention door, against 9.8% across the other years of this generation.
First year of a new generation. The Honda CR-V was redesigned for 2007. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 885 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 400 |
| Involving a crash | 34 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 12 |
| EPA combined | 22.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- door — 39.7% of this year's complaints, against 9.8% across the other years of this generation (4.1×).
- lock — 31.5% of this year's complaints, against 7.8% across the other years of this generation (4×). Owners wrote it as: lock, door lock, lock unlock, lock actuator.
- open — 14.4% of this year's complaints, against 5.2% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: open, hatch, back door.
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
HONDA REFUSES TO REPLACE RECALLED DOOR LOCK ACTUATORS. DRIVER'S SIDE DOOR LOCK AND PASSENGER REAR LOCKS WILL NOT STAY OPEN, SEALING OCCUPANTS IN THE CAR UNLESS THE KEY FOB IS REPEATEDLY ACTUATED. HONDA SAYS RECALL HAS EXPIRED. HONDA REPLACED ONE ACTUATOR WITH…
WHILE TRAVELING APPROXIMATELY 20 MPH, THE FRONT AND REAR DRIVER SIDE DOOR UNLOCKED INDEPENDENTLY. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER. THE TECHNICIAN DIAGNOSED THAT THE DOOR LOCK ACTUATORS NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED, BUT THE FAILURE RECURR…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V182000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V268000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V500000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V502000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V378000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V417000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V545000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V030000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 12. 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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