Owner-reported complaints naming the body or structure system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming the vehicle structure, frame, body panels, doors, hood and trim. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 2002 Honda CR-V submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 8 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
CAR IN DRIVEWAY. NOT DRIVEN FOR 3 DAYS, JUST NOT NEEDED BUT WORKING. DURING DAY, CAR CAUGHT ON FIRE. FIRE INSPECTORS WAS UNABLE TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE DUE TO THE EXTENT OF DAMAGE. THEY BELIEVED IT COULD HAVE BEEN ELECTRICAL. FIRE CONCENTRATED IN DASH AND ENGINE AREA. WINDSHIELD BLEW DURING FIRE. HAVE OWNED THIS CAR SINCE NEW, FOR 17 YEARS. 140,000 MILES.
LAST NIGHT AROUND 8PM MY HUSBAND AND I WERE LEAVING A CLIENTS HOUSE IN LEESPORT. WE WERE GOING SOUTH ON RT 183. WE WERE DRIVING APPOXIMATLY 20 MPH. WITH NO WARNING AT ALL, A BIG DEER JUMPED AND SLAMMED INTO THE DRIVERS SIDE. HITTING THE FRONT SIDE OF THE VEHICLE. WE PULLED OFF OF THE ROAD IMMEDIATELY. THE FLUID FROM RADIATOR WAS LEAKING OUT.
I WAS DRIVING DOWN A HIGHWAY IN ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND AT 55 MPH AND THE ENTIRE SUNROOF OF MY 2002 HONDA CRV SUDDENLY SHATTERED INTO THOUSANDS OF TINY GLASS FRAGMENTS THAT SHOWERED DOWN UPON MY DAUGHTER (IN THE FRONT PASSENGER SEAT) AND I. NOTHING HAD FALLEN ONTO IT FROM ABOVE, AND THERE WERE NO PRIOR CRACKS OR DEFECTS IN THE GLASS. THERE WAS A LOUD NOISE AS THIS OCCURRED, SUGGESTING THE DOUBLE PANE GLASS SIMPLY "EXPLODED". *TR
2002 HONDA CR-V DRIVER SIDE DOOR DOES NOT OPEN WITH REMOTE OR FROM INSIDE WITH ELECTRIC SWITCH. DOOR CAN ONLY BE OPEN MANUALLY. THIS CREATES SAFETY ISSUES BOTH WHEN APPROACHING THE CAR FROM OUTSIDE AND INSIDE IF ONE GETS TRAPPED. *TR
DRIVING AT DARK, 60 MPH, THE HOOD OF MY CR-V FLEW OPEN, BREAKING THE WINDSHIELD, DENTING AND DESTROYING THE ROOF AND HOOD AND HINGES. *TR
PROBLEMS WITH MICE IN PASSENGER COMPARTMENT. CONSUMER HAS CAUGHT A TOTAL OF 8 MICE. *MR THE CONSUMER HAD RUN OFF THE ROAD AND ALMOST ROLLED OVER DUE TO A MOUSE RUNNING ACROSS THE CONSUMERS LAP. THE CONSUMER PREVIOUSLY CAUGHT 8 MICE ON THE GLUE BOARDS IN THE CONSUMERS PASSENGER COMPARTMENT. THE CONSUMER REQUESTED THE DEALER TO FIX THE PROBLEM BUT THEY REFUSED. *SCC *JB
NAR 05/06/2003 MR THE CONSUMER WAS INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT WHERE SEVERE DAMAGES OCCURRED TO THE VEHICLE, THE FRAME WAS BENT, RADIATOR WAS DEFECTIVE, AND THE AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY. *CB
THE VEHICLE STARTED TO EMIT LOUD POPPING NOISES FORM THE BRAKES IN ANY DIRECTION THE VEHICLE WAS MOVING. THE DEALERSHIP EXPLAINS THIS A AS NORMAL. ALSO THE REAR TAILGATE GLASS WOULDN'T LOCK. *JG
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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