1997 Honda CR-V problems
Owners have filed 129 complaints with NHTSA about the 1997 Honda CR-V. Electrical system is the most reported problem area, at 25% of complaints. Next are air bags (23%) and cruise control (7%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 129 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Electrical system 25% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 15 and 1
- Injuries and deaths
- 10 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 136,000 miles 27 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 1 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 0 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 3 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 3 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 3 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 1 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 3 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 3 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 2 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 1 |
| 200k+ miles | 7 |
What the data shows
Of the 27 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 136,000 miles. For electrical system specifically, the median reported mileage is about 125,000 miles (13 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 15 complaints mention a crash; 1 complaint mentions a fire; 10 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1997 ranks 29th most-complained-about out of 30 model years of the Honda CR-V with enough data (41 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 2 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Vehicle was completlely stopped, and another vehicle rearended consumer. Upon impact air bag did not deploy, and the seatback broke. Vehicle was totalled.
Consumer was stopped when a vehicle from the rear crashed into the vehicle, airbag deployed violently, it pushed the driver back with force, causing seat back to collapse, resulting in mulitple injuries.
I bough 04 michelin green x- tires(215-70-r15) on feb/09/2016 a 90,000 miles tires guarantee in puerto rico. I just used the tires 1,594 miles ,(four months later ) I had a blowout on the outer sidewall of the rear right drive side of the tire.when I check I had a big hole in the outer sidewall of my tire.there were no nails,glass or other debris responsible for these.the store replaced that tire with a ecopia-ep422 plus,because they don't have available a new michelin-x tire.
Car will stop suddenly while driving at any speed all lights will come on power steering will go out and car will not run I will turn it off and a few minutes later it will start again usually but this last time it stopped and wouldnt start again IV had the battery altogether and starter checked at auto zone and all are strong IV had them run a device on it to see if it has any error codes and it has non they said it was the fuel filter and it wasnt IV changed my main relay and ran fine for 2 days then it stopped…