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2018 Honda CR-V

Complaints about this year name gasoline far more often than the other years of this generation — 18% of them, about 7× the usual rate of 2.6%.

Generation 4 of the Honda CR-V, which began in 2017 and ran to 2022. 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.

Also unusual this year

• oil — 20% of complaints, 4× usual
• gasoline however — 9% of complaints, 22× usual
• system gasoline — 10% of complaints, 16× usual

What owners wrote

OIL IS DILUTED WITH GASOLINE. OIL VOLUME WAS A QUART OVERFULL. IT WAS STATIONARY.

THE ENGINE OIL HAS A STRONG GASOLINE SMELL AND GETS DIRTY SOON AFTER AN OIL CHANGE.

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 21V215000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
• 18V663000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
• 23V158000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
• 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
• 26V332000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.

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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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