Honda CR-V 2018

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

1.84 per 1,000

4.0 times this nameplate’s own median · from 697 complaints filed in the first three years, of 2157 ever. 95% lower bound 1.71.

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.

Engine 530 complaints

gasoline	162	31%
dilution	77	15%
crv	72	14%
oil dilution	59	11%
smell gasoline	44	8%
gas oil	42	8%

Forward Collision Avoidance 395 complaints

crv	51	11%
flashing	51	11%
flashed	43	9%
luckily	42	9%
brake warning	41	9%
fuel	40	9%

Fuel/Propulsion System 376 complaints

oil	178	47%
injectors	65	17%
fuel injectors	63	17%
crv	60	16%
oil level	57	15%
engine oil	49	13%

When it breaks

69% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 12,575 miles, from 889 complaints that recorded one).

Failures cluster early, which is the signature of how the car was built rather than of wear. A low-mileage example has not yet passed the risk window.

What NHTSA did

3 investigations covering this model year, 0 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 126 complaints about this component over roughly 28 months before an investigation opened.

Inadvertent Automatic Emergency Braking

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:

11051726 · 11057703 · 11058434 · 11066931 · 11075999 · 11076480

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.