2011 Honda CR-V problems
Owners have filed 652 complaints with NHTSA about the 2011 Honda CR-V. Air bags is the most reported problem area, at 45% of complaints. Next are electrical system (8%) and body & structure (7%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 652 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 45% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 42 and 3
- Injuries and deaths
- 24 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 50,000 miles 274 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 | 56 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 59 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 41 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 35 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 30 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 13 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 18 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 6 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 7 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 4 |
| 200k+ miles | 5 |
What the data shows
Of the 274 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 50,000 miles. For air bags specifically, the median reported mileage is about 61,000 miles (38 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 42 complaints mention a crash; 3 complaints mention a fire; 24 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2011 ranks 9th most-complained-about out of 30 model years of the Honda CR-V with enough data (436 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 13 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.
I was pulling out of parking spot in reverse in a crowded movie theater parking lot when my 2011 honda cr-v accelerated at full speed into the cement pole behind me. Confused, I put the car in 'drive' to pull myself away from the pole, when the car once again accelerated at full speed forward toward the spot I was original in hitting and continually pushing a parked mini-van, which in turn pushed and kept pushing the parked car next to it.
Tl* the contact owns a 2011 honda cr-v equipped with cooper cs4 tires, size: 225/65r17 (na). While driving 60 MPH, the rear driver side tire blew out. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic where it was diagnosed that the inner tube ruptured. The tire failed and needed to be replaced. The tire was replaced. The tire was a replacement tire. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate vehicle failure mileage was 65,000 and the tire failure mileage was 44,000.
When starting vehicle car turns on with no problem sometimes and will run with little to no problem. When all of a sudden vehicle begins to lose power and all lights on instrument panel lights up car shuts off. This can happen randomly at any given time, weather condition, speed, parking or pulling out of parking space on the highway or multi-lane streets within city limits; and or one-way streets, back roads or country roads with inclines and higher elevations or not.