Honda CR-V 2009

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.20 per 1,000

better than this nameplate’s own median · from 39 complaints filed in the first three years, of 386 ever. 95% lower bound 0.14.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.31	62
2009	0.20	39
2010	0.28	56
2011	0.24	51
2012	0.39	98
2013	0.46	134
2014	0.78	248
2015	1.19	406
2016	0.39	136
2017	2.27	834
2018	1.84	697
2019	0.78	296
2020	0.32	115
2021	0.34	120
2022	0.54	162
2023	1.90	570

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Air Bags 176 complaints

recall	156	88%
recall notification	69	39%
campaign numbers	25	14%
numbers air	24	14%
bags air	21	12%
repair exceeded	19	11%

When it breaks

25% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 65,000 miles, from 182 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

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Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is verified against a published figure.