2010 Honda CR-V
This year drew an ordinary 480 complaints for a Honda CR-V — the model's median is 400. What they were about is the unusual part: 6.3% of them mention consumption, against 0.8% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Honda CR-V, which began in 2007 and ran to 2011. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 480 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 400 |
| Involving a crash | 31 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 15 |
| EPA combined | 23.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- consumption — 6.3% of this year's complaints, against 0.8% across the other years of this generation (8.3×). Owners wrote it as: consumption, oil consumption, changes, add.
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
HIGH ENGINE OIL CONSUMPTION - MY CAR RAN OUT OF OIL IN 2014, THE RED LIGHT CAME ON AND I ADDED 4 QTS OF OIL. THIS WAS BETWEEN OIL CHANGES WITH "20% OIL LIFE" STILL INDICATED IN THE CAR. I REPORTED IT TO HONDA AND NOT UNTIL THEY SENT ME THE WARRANTY EXTENSION R…
EXCESS OIL CONSUMPTION. NEED TO ADD 1 PLUS QUARTS OF OIL PER 1,000 MILES. OIL INDICATION LIGHT DOES NOT APPEAR WHEN THERE IS NO OIL ON THE DIP STICK. THIS FIRST STARTED TO HAPPEN AT AROUND 100,000 MILES (8/2017) AND CONTINUES TO DO SO. MUST CONSTANTLY CHECK AN…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V661000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V182000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V268000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V500000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V502000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V378000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V417000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V545000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 15. 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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