2006 Honda CR-V
This year drew an ordinary 398 complaints for a Honda CR-V — the model's median is 479. What they were about is the unusual part: 31.4% of them mention headlights, against 8% across the model's other years.
Last year of its generation. This Honda CR-V ran from 2002 to 2006, 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 | 398 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 479 |
| Involving a crash | 27 |
| Involving a fire | 16 |
| Recalls | 13 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- headlights — 31.4% of this year's complaints, against 8% across the model's other years (3.9×). Owners wrote it as: headlights, bulb, went out, numerous.
- low — 30.7% of this year's complaints, against 11% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: low, beam, low beam, bulbs.
- vsa — 11.3% of this year's complaints, against 3.4% across the model's other years (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: vsa, abs, paid, abs vsa.
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
PASSENGER SIDE LOW BEAM DOES NOT FUNCTION... HAVE REPLACED BULB EVERY FEW MONTHS FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, BUT THIS TIME (SINCE FEB. 2019) THERE IS NO RECOVERY. I HAVE REPLACED THE BULB, SOCKET AND CONNECTOR, CHECKED FUSES...HI BEAM AND PARKING/SIGNAL BULBS…
WHILE DRIVING AT AN UNKNOWN SPEED, THE LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS FAILED TO OPERATE. THE CONTACT REPLACED THE BULBS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS BUT THE FAILURE PERSISTED. THE DEALER WAS UNABLE TO DIAGNOSE THE FAILURE. THE [VIN] WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE F…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V182000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19E068000 VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL Fixed free of charge.
- 20V768000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 19V499000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V501000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 06V270000 EQUIPMENT
- 18V268000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V320000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 13. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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