CarComplaints.com Notes: It's rare when a newer vehicle has defect trends. Judging from the identical 2017 model year, the 2018 Honda CR-V is likely to have at least two — overfilled oil levels with a gas smell, & heat not working.

Both problems affecting the Honda CR-V's 1.5L "Earth Dreams" engine appear to be related to cold-climate regions.

CR-V owners report overfilled oil levels due to fuel in the oil, & sometimes a gas smell in the cabin. That problem appears to be related to fuel injection which Honda hopes to fix via a software update. Honda so far has only conducted a recall in China & a "product update" in Canada.

CR-V owners also report no heat even after warming up their CR-Vs for 30 minutes — not even enough to defrost the windshield. So far, there has been no fix from Honda for this issue.

6.0

fairly significant
Typical Repair Cost:
No data
Average Mileage:
14,000 miles
Total Complaints:
1 complaints

Most Common Solutions:

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2018 Honda CR-V brakes problems

brakes problem

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2018 Honda CR-V Owner Comments

problem #1

Jul 012019

CR-V CRV EX

  • Automatic transmission
  • 14,000 miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

Unless car is not in cruise, it's only blinking BRAKE sign on dash board but not auto applying brake or slowing down car. You manually need to apply for brake. For me, its not worth having a radar system to avoid a collision, I must apply brake like other cars, regardless radar system sitting in front me.

There is device called CMS Collision Mitigation System that you can install any vehicle, that does the same job. I was overwhelmed having radar system in my HONDA CVR, but it's nothing but another CMS device scrap now for me.

- Dinesh J.,

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