Federal complaint record · Honda CR-V · model year 2012

2012 Honda CR-V

Owners submitted 399 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 54th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2010 to 2014 compact suv cohort. The largest reported component group is engine. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Engine · 18% · group n = 91Electrical · 13% · group n = 67Other · 11% · group n = 55Powertrain · 10% · group n = 49Visibility · 7% · group n = 37
399
Complaint records on file
35,500
Median mileage at the reported problem · 277 complaints reported mileage
18%
Of classified component reports name engine · group n = 91
54th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Engine · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Engine18%

Engine reports

Honda CR-V · model year 2012

Reports in this group91
Share of classified reports18%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2011
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
551 matched incidents
This car
2012
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
399 matched incidents
2013
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
381 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Steering effort · 35 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 1 of 32012 Honda CR-V
Brake performance · 31 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32012 Honda CR-V
Electrical faults · 30 reports

Reports describe electrical faults or battery drain

Cluster 3 of 32012 Honda CR-V

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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