Federal complaint record · Honda CR-V · model year 2004

2004 Honda CR-V

Owners submitted 501 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 69th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2002 to 2006 compact suv cohort. The largest reported component group is engine. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Engine · 26% · group n = 155Airbags · 17% · group n = 103Electrical · 12% · group n = 73Other · 10% · group n = 58Lighting · 8% · group n = 46
501
Complaint records on file
69,850
Median mileage at the reported problem · 352 complaints reported mileage
26%
Of classified component reports name engine · group n = 155
69th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 27 model years

Engine · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Engine26%

Engine reports

Honda CR-V · model year 2004

Reports in this group155
Share of classified reports26%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

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2003
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
467 matched incidents
This car
2004
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
501 matched incidents
2005
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
479 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
Fire or smoke · 89 reports

Reports describe smoke, burning smells, or fire

Cluster 1 of 32004 Honda CR-V
Airbag concerns · 77 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 2 of 32004 Honda CR-V
Stalling or shutdown · 29 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 3 of 32004 Honda CR-V

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

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