2016 Honda CR-V
This year drew an ordinary 389 complaints for a Honda CR-V — the model's median is 479. What they were about is the unusual part: 17.5% of them mention smell, against 1.9% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Honda CR-V ran from 2012 to 2016, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 389 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 479 |
| Involving a crash | 40 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 28 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- smell — 17.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the other years of this generation (9.4×). Owners wrote it as: smell, cabin, gasoline, strong.
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
STRONG GASOLINE SMELL IN CABIN OF VEHICLE,CAUSING HEAD ACHE BURNING EYES AND NAUSEA WHILE OPERATING.
STRONG GASOLINE SMELL IN THE COCKPIT AND IN THE GARAGE. THIS IS ESPECIALLY EVIDENT WHEN STARTING OR STOPPING.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V305000 ENGINE Fixed free of charge.
- 15V714000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
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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