2008 Honda CR-V
This year drew an ordinary 960 complaints for a Honda CR-V — the model's median is 400. What they were about is the unusual part: 32.7% of them mention door, against 9.8% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Honda CR-V, which began in 2007 and ran to 2011. 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 | 960 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 400 |
| Involving a crash | 44 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 11 |
| EPA combined | 22.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- door — 32.7% of this year's complaints, against 9.8% across the other years of this generation (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: door, door lock, door locks, passenger door.
- unlock — 32.2% of this year's complaints, against 11.8% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: unlock, doors, unlocked, key.
- locks — 23% of this year's complaints, against 8.6% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: locks, open, unlocking, locking unlocking.
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
All 5 automatic door locks failed to open causing me to be locked inside the car. After many minutes and retrying the key fob I was able to exit via the front passenger door. Later that same day once returning home I was locked out of all 5 doors. The car was…
PASSENGER DOOR LOCK UN-LATCHED AND RE-LATCHED WHILE DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD. WHEN ATTEMPTING TO EXIT VEHICLE AFTER PARKING THE DOOR LATCH IS STUCK AND WILL NOT LET YOU OUT. ALSO IT NOW MAKES A HORRIBLE LOUD NOISE WHEN THE AUTO-DOOR LOCKS ACTIVATE AFTER ACCELERAT…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V268000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V502000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V500000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V378000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V545000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V417000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V030000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V346000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 11. 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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