2015 Honda CR-V
This year drew an ordinary 668 complaints for a Honda CR-V — the model's median is 400. What they were about is the unusual part: 27.8% of them mention vibration, against 3.7% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 3 of the Honda CR-V, which began in 2012 and ran to 2016. 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 | 668 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 400 |
| Involving a crash | 37 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 28.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- vibration — 27.8% of this year's complaints, against 3.7% across the other years of this generation (7.5×). Owners wrote it as: vibration, vibration idle, vibration issue, vibration felt.
- idle — 26.5% of this year's complaints, against 8% across the other years of this generation (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: idle, vibrations, shaking, car vibrates.
- vibrates — 15.7% of this year's complaints, against 4.2% across the other years of this generation (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: vibrates, characteristic, fix issue, shudders.
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
VEHICLE VIBRATES AT IDLE. VIBRATION PRONOUNCED ENOUGH THAT SEATS SHAKE AND OTHER LOOSE ITEMS IN VEHICLE VISIBLY SHAKING. THIS OCCURS IN DRIVE AND SPORT MODE.
CAR WAS PURCHASED ON 7/1/15. APPROXIMATELY 3 WEEKS AFTER PURCHASE, AROUND 500 MILES, THE VEHICLE BEGAN EXPERIENCING STRONG VIBRATIONS WHEN IN DRIVE GEAR AT IDLE (I.E., STOPPED AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT). ENTIRE BODY OF CAR SHUDDERS SIGNIFICANTLY CAUSING DISCOMFORT TO…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 17V305000 ENGINE Fixed free of charge.
- 15V121000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
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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