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When problems were reported
Mileage at the reported incident
1410–25K
5425–50K
1850–75K
1375–100K
5100–150K
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235 reports with mileage · 157 unknown
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What to inspect
Issues worth paying extra attention to based on owner reports.
Engine. Review the 101 owner reports in this category and discuss these concerns during a pre-purchase inspection. Read reports →
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Electrical System. Review the 64 owner reports in this category and discuss these concerns during a pre-purchase inspection. Read reports →
NHTSA owner reports · September 18, 2026 snapshot.
40 crash reports4 fire reports28 injury reports
What owners actually said
392 reports
38,000 miles · Jun 26, 2019
EngineFire
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2016 HONDA CR-V. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE WATER PUMP SEIZED CAUSING THE FAN BELT AROUND THE METAL TO GET HOT AND FRACTURED, SMOKE AND FLAMES STARTED TO COME FROM THE ENGINE. THE FIRE WAS EXTINGUISHED BY THE CONTACT. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO THE CONTACTS RESIDENCE. THE CONTACT LATER CALLED HONDA CARS OF …
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TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2016 HONDA CR-V. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE WATER PUMP SEIZED CAUSING THE FAN BELT AROUND THE METAL TO GET HOT AND FRACTURED, SMOKE AND FLAMES STARTED TO COME FROM THE ENGINE. THE FIRE WAS EXTINGUISHED BY THE CONTACT. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO THE CONTACTS RESIDENCE. THE CONTACT LATER CALLED HONDA CARS OF ROCK HILL DEALER, (LOCATED AT 686 GALLERIA BLVD, ROCK HILL, SC 29730, (803) 366-8161) AND WAS ADVISED TO BRING THE VEHICLE IN. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO A DEALER AND WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 38,000.
NHTSA ODI #11222704
38,954 miles · Jun 19, 2019
Visibility
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2016 HONDA CR-V. WHILE DRIVING 60 MPH, THE SUN ROOF EXPLODED WITHOUT WARNING. THE INSIDE COVER WAS COMPLETELY CLOSED, SO THERE WERE NO INJURIES. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE INSIDE COVER WOULD NOT OPEN AND REMAINED STUCK AFTER THE FAILURE. THE GLASS CONTINUED TO CRACK AFTER THE EXPLOSION. THE CONTACT CALLED…
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TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2016 HONDA CR-V. WHILE DRIVING 60 MPH, THE SUN ROOF EXPLODED WITHOUT WARNING. THE INSIDE COVER WAS COMPLETELY CLOSED, SO THERE WERE NO INJURIES. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE INSIDE COVER WOULD NOT OPEN AND REMAINED STUCK AFTER THE FAILURE. THE GLASS CONTINUED TO CRACK AFTER THE EXPLOSION. THE CONTACT CALLED TIGER HONDA (13325 AIRLINE HWY, GONZALES, LA 70737, (225) 963-9800) AND WAS INFORMED THAT SHE WOULD GET A CALL BACK. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 38,954.
NHTSA ODI #11221299
20,000 miles · Jun 18, 2019
Service BrakesCrashInjury
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2016 HONDA CR-V. THE CONTACT STATED WHILE DRIVING 45 MPH, WHEN APPROACHING A CROSS ROAD ANOTHER VEHICLE COMING FORM THE RIGHT SIDE FAILED TO STOP. THE CONTACT STATED SHE MERGED TO THE LEFT TO AVOID AN IMPACT AND CRASHED THE FRONT PASSENGER SIDE OF HER VEHICLE INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE. THE CONTACT WAS UNAWARE O…
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TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2016 HONDA CR-V. THE CONTACT STATED WHILE DRIVING 45 MPH, WHEN APPROACHING A CROSS ROAD ANOTHER VEHICLE COMING FORM THE RIGHT SIDE FAILED TO STOP. THE CONTACT STATED SHE MERGED TO THE LEFT TO AVOID AN IMPACT AND CRASHED THE FRONT PASSENGER SIDE OF HER VEHICLE INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE. THE CONTACT WAS UNAWARE OF ANY WARNING LIGHTS ILLUMINATING. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE CMBS SYSTEM ENGAGED HOWEVER, THE VEHICLE WAS UNABLE TO IMMEDIATELY STOP WHEN THE BRAKE PEDAL WAS DEPRESSED. A POLICE REPORT WAS FILED. THE CONTACT STATED SHE SUSTAINED A CONCUSSION AND NECK INJURY. THE CONTACT DID SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION. THE CONTACT STATED THE DRIVER FROM THE OTHER VEHICLE WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DRIVABLE AND WAS TOWED TO INDEPENDENT MECHANIC. THE VEHICLE COSMETIC DAMAGES HAD BEEN REPAIRED BY INDEPENDENT MECHANIC. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED AS OF YET. A DEALER WAS NOT CONTACTED. THE MANUFACTURER HAD BEEN INFORMED OF FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 20,000. *TR CONSUMER STATEDI WAS UNABLE TO STOP MY CAR FOR ABOUT 1/4 MILE AFTER THE ACCIDENT. THE CAR CONTROLLED ITSELF AND I COULD FEEL IT SLOWING DOWN. BUT I COULD HAVE RUN OVER A PEDESTRIAN, DRIVEN INTO A RIVER, OR AN INTERSECTION BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP THE CAR. *JB
NHTSA ODI #11220930
2,000 miles · Jun 17, 2019
EnginePower Train
24,000 MILES. ROUGH IDLE WHILE AT A STOP, RPM FLUCTUATES WHILE AT STOP , VIBRATION CAN BE FELT IN THE DRIVERS SEAT, WHILE AT HIWAY SPEEDS (65-70 MPH) VIBRATION CAN BE FELT IN STEERING COLUMN/ STEERING WHEEL, ALL REQUIRED SERVICING DONE ON SCHEDULE AND THESE ISSUES HAVE BEEN POINTED OUT AT SERVICE APPMNTS, HONDA DEALERSHIP REPORT…
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24,000 MILES. ROUGH IDLE WHILE AT A STOP, RPM FLUCTUATES WHILE AT STOP , VIBRATION CAN BE FELT IN THE DRIVERS SEAT, WHILE AT HIWAY SPEEDS (65-70 MPH) VIBRATION CAN BE FELT IN STEERING COLUMN/ STEERING WHEEL, ALL REQUIRED SERVICING DONE ON SCHEDULE AND THESE ISSUES HAVE BEEN POINTED OUT AT SERVICE APPMNTS, HONDA DEALERSHIP REPORTS NO ISSUE FOUND, ALL ABOVE PROBLEMS HAVE INCREASED IN INTENSITY WISH TO BE ON RECORD AS TO THESE ISSUES
NHTSA ODI #11220793
27,200 miles · Jun 17, 2019
EngineUnknown Or Other
CAR VIBRATES/SHAKES WHEN SITTING STILL IN IDLE
NHTSA ODI #11220725
29,000 miles · Jun 15, 2019
Power Train
THE CAR VIBRATES LIKE CRAZY WHEN I COME TO A STOP WHILE THE CAR IS IN DRIVE OR REVERSE. THE VIBRATION IS COMING FROM THE ENGINE AND IT GOES IN AND OUT CONSTANTLY. FOR EXAMPLE STANDING ON RED LIGHT AND OR STOP SIGNS. I REACHED OUT TO HONDA AND THEY HAVE INFORMED ME THAT THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT. IN 2015/2016 HONDA CR…
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THE CAR VIBRATES LIKE CRAZY WHEN I COME TO A STOP WHILE THE CAR IS IN DRIVE OR REVERSE. THE VIBRATION IS COMING FROM THE ENGINE AND IT GOES IN AND OUT CONSTANTLY. FOR EXAMPLE STANDING ON RED LIGHT AND OR STOP SIGNS. I REACHED OUT TO HONDA AND THEY HAVE INFORMED ME THAT THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT. IN 2015/2016 HONDA CRV THEY PUT THE NEW ENGINE AND NEW CVT TRANSMISSION WHICH IS GARBAGE AND IS MAKING THESE VIBRATIONS. PLEASE HELP AS HONDA IS NOT WILLING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. THANKS
NHTSA ODI #11220320
20,100 miles · Jun 14, 2019
Electrical System
AFTER SITTING IN VEHICLE WITH RADIO PLAYING ON ACCESSORY FOR 20 MINUTES THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT START REQUIRING A BOOST FROM AAA. AFTER RETURNING HOME AND IN MY DRIVEWAY I CHECKED THE VOLTAGE ON THE BATTERY WITH THE ENGINE OFF AND IT READ 12.31. I STARTED THE VEHICLE AND THE VOLTAGE READ 13.22 AFTER A FEW SECONDS IT WENT DOWN TO …
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AFTER SITTING IN VEHICLE WITH RADIO PLAYING ON ACCESSORY FOR 20 MINUTES THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT START REQUIRING A BOOST FROM AAA. AFTER RETURNING HOME AND IN MY DRIVEWAY I CHECKED THE VOLTAGE ON THE BATTERY WITH THE ENGINE OFF AND IT READ 12.31. I STARTED THE VEHICLE AND THE VOLTAGE READ 13.22 AFTER A FEW SECONDS IT WENT DOWN TO 12.25 INDICATING IT WASN'T CHARGING. I TURNED ON THE HEADLIGHTS AND THE READING JUMPED TO 14.11 AND REMAINED THERE ABOUT UNTIL I TURNED THE LIGHTS OFF WHEREUPON IT RETURNED TO THE LOWER PART OF 12 VOLTS.
NHTSA ODI #11220043
35,000 miles · Jun 9, 2019
Electrical System
THE CAR WILL NOT START. IT BLINKS 'ACCESSORY MODE' WHEN YOU TRY TO START IT AND YOU CANNOT GET THE CAR OUT OF IT WITHOUT HAVING SOMEONE JUMP THE CAR BATTERY. THIS HAS NOW LEFT MY WIFE STRANDED TWO TIMES AND BOTH TIMES WE HAD TO FIND SOMEONE TO JUMP HER.
NHTSA ODI #11218743
35,400 miles · Jun 3, 2019
Service Brakes
MY BACK BREAKS (PAD AND ROTORS0 NEED REPLACING AT 35,000 MILES. NOISE STARTED AND MADE APPT. FOR TWO DAYS LATER. AUTO MASTER WHERE I PURCHASED THE CARE SAID I WAS LUCKY I GOT 35K OUT OF THEM, THEY HAVE SEEN THEM GO AROUND 22K. I HAVE NEVER HAD BREAKS GO ON A VEHICLE AT 35K. I HAVE READ MANY OTHER PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT TH…
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MY BACK BREAKS (PAD AND ROTORS0 NEED REPLACING AT 35,000 MILES. NOISE STARTED AND MADE APPT. FOR TWO DAYS LATER. AUTO MASTER WHERE I PURCHASED THE CARE SAID I WAS LUCKY I GOT 35K OUT OF THEM, THEY HAVE SEEN THEM GO AROUND 22K. I HAVE NEVER HAD BREAKS GO ON A VEHICLE AT 35K. I HAVE READ MANY OTHER PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS PROBLEM ON THEIR CRVS. REPLACEMENT COST FROM DEALER IS OUTRAGEOUS. AND THE DEALERSHIP COULD HAVE CARED LESS THAT I ONLY GOT 35K OUT OF THE BREAKS. THIS WILL BE LAST VEHICLE PURCHASED FROM THEM AND THE LAST HONDA. MAY EVEN LOOK AT TRADING IT NOW AFTER THE BREAKS ARE DONE BEING FIXED. VERY DISSATISFIED WITH HONDA AND THE DEALERSHIP. I ALWAYS BELIEVED HONDA TO BE GREAT VEHICLES BUT AM LEARNING IT IS NOT SO. VERY UNHAPPY CUSTOMER.
Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain 2013-2023 Honda Accord, Civic Coupe, Civic Sedan, Civic Hatchback, Civic Type R, CR-V, HR-V, Ridgeline, Odyssey, Acura ILX, MDX, MDX Hybrid, RDX, RLX, TLX, 2019-2022 Honda Insight, Passport, 2020 Honda CR-V Hybrid, 2018-2019 Honda Clarity PHEV, Fit, and 2015-2020 Honda Accord Hybrid, Pilot, Acura NSX vehicles. The fuel pump inside the fuel tank may fail.
Consequence & remedy
Consequence: Fuel pump failure can cause an engine stall while driving, increasing the risk of a crash.
Remedy: Dealers will replace the fuel pump module, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed September 6, 2024. Owners may contact Honda customer service at 1-888-234-2138. Honda's numbers for this recall are KGC and KGD. This recall is an expansion of NHTSA recall numbers 21V-215 and 20V-314.
Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain 2015-2016 Honda CR-V vehicles that recently received a replacement engine. The replacement engine may have been built with the wrong pistons, potentially affecting the engine's performance.
Consequence & remedy
Consequence: The reduced performance may result in an engine stall, increasing the risk of a crash.
Remedy: Honda will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the engines and replace the incorrect components, as necessary, free of charge. The recall began June 20, 2017. Owners may contact Honda customer service at 1-888-234-2138. Honda's number for this recall is KF6.
American Honda Motor Company, Inc. (Honda) is recalling certain model year 2016 CR-V vehicles manufactured October 12, 2015, to October 19, 2015. The metal housing surrounding the driver's air bag inflator in these vehicles may have been manufactured incorrectly.
Consequence & remedy
Consequence: In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the driver's frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
Remedy: Honda will notify owners, and dealers will replace the driver side frontal air bag module, free of charge. The recall began in November 2015. Owners may contact Honda customer service at 1-888-234-2138. Honda'a number for this recall is JV9.
Model-level recall history does not show whether a particular VIN is affected or has received a repair. Check a VIN with NHTSA ↗
NHTSA investigations
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EA19001 · Electrical Overstress
Opened Apr 19, 2019 · Closed Sep 19, 2024
Status: closed (inferred from source dates) · Air Bags: Air Bag/restraint Control Module
The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened this investigation to determine if the failure of airbags to deploy during severe crashes, in certain vehicles, was the result of a safety related defect. During the investigation a complex failure was studied that can result in non-deployment of subject vehicle air bags and other restraint system devices in severe crash events. The subject vehicles may be equipped with an airbag control unit (ACU) for the supplemental restraint system (SRS) Electronic Control Unit (ECU) manufactured by ZF-TRW. The ECU receives signals from crash sensors mounted in the vehicle and deploys the vehicle air bags and seat belt pretensioners in accordance with manufacturer design specifications. The ECU in the subject vehicles contains a model DS84 application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) which controls the communication of the crash sensor signal, firing commands (i.e., when to deploy the airbag(s) and/or pretensioners), and fault information (e.g., diagnostic trouble codes). In September 2016, FCA announced recall 16V-668 for certain model year (MY) 2010 to 2014 Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep products manufactured with the subject ZF-TRW ACU. In this recall, FCA discussed an EOS condition that resulted in a failure of the subject DS84 ASIC, which caused air bag non-deployment. FCA noted that the defect condition had only been observed in vehicles equipped with sensor harnessing routed across the front of the vehicle. Other FCA vehicles that also used the subject ACU, but were not equipped with cross-car harnessing, had not experienced EOS failures, despite similar time in service. During the course of this investigation, ODI sent two separate Information Request (IR) letters to six vehicle manufactures (including FCA, Hyundai, Honda, Kia, Mitsubishi, and Toyota) and one IR letter to ZF-TRW. These IR letters resulted in ODI receiving comprehensive data from these manufacturers and suppliers. Studies of this data found that the DS84 ASIC does not have sufficient protection against negative electrical transients or electrical overstress (“EOS”) that can be generated in certain severe crashes. An electrical transient occurs when the electrical power supplied to a circuit changes momentarily over a short duration of time. In these severe crash cases, the crash sensors and other powered wiring can be damaged and short circuited so as to create a negative electrical transient of sufficient intensity and duration (that are outside the vehicle manufacturer's specification) to damage the ASIC before the restraint device deployment signal is received by the SRS ECU. This damaged signal can lead to incomplete or nondeployment of the air bags and/or pretensioners. Airbag non-deployment and/or lack of pretensioner operation can increase the risk or severity of injury in a crash.A total of 8 fatalities and 14 injuries were associated with known EOS events. The common element in all investigated manufacturers vehicles is the SRS ECU containing a DS84 ASIC manufactured by ZF-TRW. The risk associated with the ASIC is equally shared among all OEMS involved in the investigation. The actual real-world risk can be mitigated by other factors which were assessed by ODI during this investigation. The first mitigating factor involves protections built into the ACU design which protect the DS84 ASIC from damage. There are multiple strategies and levels of protection employed by different OEMs that provide effective EOS mitigation. The two most common strategies at the ACU level are circuit protection diodes on the remote senor signal lines, and current limiting resistors that protect critical components. The second mitigating factor is found at the vehicle level and involves the location and routing of the wires leading from the crash sensors to the SRS ECU. If the wires are well protected in a crash and are not routed with other power wires carrying large currents, the risk for an EOS event is significantly reduced or eliminated. These design specific factors combine to produce a spectrum of risk for the vehicles equipped with ACUs using the DS84 ASIC. Given the many of years of field exposure, it is possible to divide the subject population into two groups; vehicles which have experienced EOS events, and vehicles which have not experienced EOS field events. Four of the six OEMs involved in this investigation have experienced EOS field events on at least one of their models equipped with a DS84 ASIC. All vehicle models (including the Toyota models identified in the Failure Report Summary of the opening resume for this investigation) with field events have been recalled. In an abundance of caution, ODI kept this investigation open five years to monitor field performance and did not identify any field events on vehicles not included in existing safety recalls. Given the spectrum of risk identified in this investigation and that all vehicles with a demonstrated unreasonable risk have been recalled, ODI is closing this investigation. ODI is closing this investigation with the following manufacturer safety recalls: 16V-668, 18E-043, 18V-137, 18V-363, and 20V-024. With the recall actions taken by the subject vehicle and equipment manufacturers, this investigation is closed. The closing of this investigation does not constitute a finding by NHTSA that a safety-related defect does not exists on other model or model year vehicles outside of the recall scopes. The agency reserves the right to take further action if warranted by the circumstances.