2022 Honda CR-V
This year drew an ordinary 248 complaints for a Honda CR-V — the model's median is 479. What they were about is the unusual part: 51.2% of them mention steering, against 17.1% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Honda CR-V ran from 2017 to 2022, 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 | 248 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 479 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 29.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- steering — 51.2% of this year's complaints, against 17.1% across the other years of this generation (3×).
- wheel — 36.3% of this year's complaints, against 9.7% across the other years of this generation (3.7×).
- sticky — 33.5% of this year's complaints, against 10.5% across the other years of this generation (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: sticky, sticky steering, experiencing, exact.
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
I am experiencing a sticky steering problem. I didn’t even realize there is recall for other Honda crv but it looks like 2022 is not even part of the recall but I am experiencing the exact same issue wheee steering is getting harder to do and the wheel seems t…
increased steering effort and “sticky steering” while driving especially on highways. Problem occurs randomly and is not easily duplicated.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V524000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 26V332000 AIR BAGS 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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