2023 Honda CR-V Hybrid
This year drew an ordinary 109 complaints for a Honda CR-V Hybrid — the model's median is 74. What they were about is the unusual part: 69.7% of them mention steering, against 20.9% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 109 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 74 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 38.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- steering — 69.7% of this year's complaints, against 20.9% across the model's other years (3.3×).
- wheel — 35.8% of this year's complaints, against 11.2% across the model's other years (3.2×).
- force — 16.5% of this year's complaints, against 5% across the model's other years (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: force, unstick, 2023 crv, attempt.
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
The steering wheel opposes force when trying to steer it when going at slow, medium or high speed, it's important to mention that this problem exists either the lane keeping assistance is on or off. You have to be a very experienced driver to use this vehicle,…
Driving around corners and steering will not return back to center……will stay in turning position and must force the steering wheel back to center …..as to unstick it. The Sticky steering can be felt and even heard when reversing and turning to maneuver in pla…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V588000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 24V744000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 24V745000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 24V763000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 26V366000 TIRES Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda CR-V Hybrid 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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