Honda CR-V: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 63 recall campaigns for the Honda CR-V, model years 1997 to 2026. NHTSA has 15,967 complaints on file for this model line. 30 of the 30 model years have a page on this register.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.
NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on 1 Oct 2026. Complaint file through 30 Sep 2026. Recall file through 30 Sep 2026.

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

Honda CR-V: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model year	Recall campaigns	Complaints	Share of the line average	Units in the campaigns
2026 Honda CR-V	0	143	27%
2025 Honda CR-V	1	253	48%	1,693,199
2024 Honda CR-V	2	392	74%	1,694,924
2023 Honda CR-V	3	515	97%	4,183,757
2022 Honda CR-V	3	261	49%	2,589,357
2021 Honda CR-V	4	331	62%	3,343,812
2020 Honda CR-V	7	353	66%	3,788,654
2019 Honda CR-V	8	1,101	207%	4,160,729
2018 Honda CR-V	5	2,148	404%	3,662,571
2017 Honda CR-V	7	1,771	333%	3,071,682
2016 Honda CR-V	3	393	74%	2,490,991
2015 Honda CR-V	3	670	126%	2,490,613
2014 Honda CR-V	1	587	110%	2,490,460
2013 Honda CR-V	2	382	72%	2,694,629
2012 Honda CR-V	3	403	76%	377,270
2011 Honda CR-V	13	554	104%	9,729,547
2010 Honda CR-V	15	481	90%	11,243,931
2009 Honda CR-V	12	386	73%	8,784,714
2008 Honda CR-V	11	961	181%	8,092,988
2007 Honda CR-V	12	887	167%	9,194,522
2006 Honda CR-V	12	398	75%	12,954,126
2005 Honda CR-V	12	479	90%	11,822,882
2004 Honda CR-V	12	501	94%	14,720,443
2003 Honda CR-V	13	468	88%	14,967,462
2002 Honda CR-V	15	515	97%	14,917,989
2001 Honda CR-V	1	142	27%	875,966
2000 Honda CR-V	2	129	24%	2,315,807
1999 Honda CR-V	3	127	24%	2,540,732
1998 Honda CR-V	3	128	24%	2,540,732
1997 Honda CR-V	2	108	20%	2,439,841

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

21,470 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Honda CR-V: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component	Per 1,000	Mentions
Electrical System	116.9	2,510
Air Bags	111.7	2,399
Engine	105.9	2,274
Steering	81.7	1,754
Unknown or Other	78.2	1,679
Forward Collision Avoidance	76.5	1,643
Fuel/Propulsion System	54.8	1,177
Power Train	47.7	1,025
Service Brakes	39.2	842
Structure	31.2	670

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Honda CR-V, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2019, with 10 campaigns.

Complaints about the Honda CR-V, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2016, with 1,657 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Accord80 campaigns
Civic79 campaigns
Odyssey82 campaigns
Pilot62 campaigns
Fit34 campaigns
Ridgeline39 campaigns
HR-V13 campaigns
Passport29 campaigns
Element20 campaigns
Prologue3 campaigns
Accord Hybrid15 campaigns
GL180015 campaigns
Insight24 campaigns
CR-V Hybrid13 campaigns
Civic Hybrid18 campaigns
Prelude12 campaigns
VTX13001 campaign
Civic SI0 campaigns
Clarity Plug-In Hybrid2 campaigns
Crosstour5 campaigns
VTX18003 campaigns
Honda0 campaigns
S20005 campaigns
Accord Crosstour8 campaigns
CR-Z3 campaigns
Honda Motorcycle0 campaigns
GL1800A4 campaigns
CMX250C1 campaign
CBR1000RR9 campaigns
Silverwing0 campaigns
VT7505 campaigns
Civic Type R6 campaigns
ST13005 campaigns
Civic Hatchback3 campaigns
VFR8003 campaigns
ST1300A5 campaigns
Civic GX8 campaigns
CRF11003 campaigns
VFR1200F2 campaigns
CBR300R4 campaigns
CBR929RR2 campaigns
CTX7002 campaigns
Grom1253 campaigns
CB300F2 campaigns
VT6002 campaigns
CRF250L4 campaigns
Silver Wing3 campaigns
CMX5003 campaigns
FSC6004 campaigns
Clarity Fuel Cell4 campaigns
NSS3004 campaigns
CB300R2 campaigns
CB5002 campaigns
CBR650R3 campaigns
CB1000SP3 campaigns
CB7504 campaigns
CB500X3 campaigns
CMX3005 campaigns
7502 campaigns
CBR5002 campaigns

Honda: all 68 model lines

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Official channels

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Cite this page

Recall Register. Honda CR-V: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/honda/cr-v/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through 30 Sep 2026.

Sources

Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence: US government work, public domain
Recall file through: 30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through: 30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file: Honda (American Honda Motor Co.)

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Honda CR-V model years have the most recall campaigns?: 2010 with 15, 2002 with 15, 2011 with 13. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Honda CR-V model year has the most complaints?: The 2018 model year, with 2,148 of the 15,967 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Honda CR-V name?: Electrical System: 116.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 111.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 105.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Honda CR-V?: 17 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.