2009 Honda CR-V
This year drew 386 complaints against a median of 479 across the Honda CR-V's other years, 0.8× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 12 recalls, listed below.
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 | 386 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 479 |
| Involving a crash | 29 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 12 |
| EPA combined | 22.5 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 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.
- 17V545000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V417000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V042000 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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