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.

10.0

really awful
Crashes / Fires:
4 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
2 / 0
Average Mileage:
9,708 miles

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2018 Honda CR-V Owner Comments (Page 8 of 11)

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problem #62

Oct 292019

CR-V

  • 5,000 miles

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

While driving on slick roads I was using blueooth to have a telephone conversation. A car swerved in front of me causing me to swerve to avoid an accident. The bluetooth disengaged and I heard the doors automatically click to lock (they were already locked). I assume these are built in safety features. When I came to a stop, the electronic door lock overrode the manual lock for the driver side door and would not unlock; I could not exit through the driver side door. I tried many times to use the fob or to manually unlock the driver side door to no avail.I had to exit using the passenger door. The driver side door lock refused to work until I used the physical key to open the door from the outside. Using the physical key appeared to re-set the electronic door lock system and it then worked normally.

- Loveland, CO, USA

problem #61

Oct 142019

CR-V

  • 21,000 miles
My 2018 cr V has been in for service with the same problem 5 times. Basically on my morning commute from norco to los angeles I sporadically get an error message, road mitigation system problem, adaptive cruise control problem, collision mitigation system problem, road departure system problem along with a brake light cycle through my dashboard and all these systems fail to work. This will last the rest of my commute and all lights are off when I drive home later on in the day. The first couple of times I brought the car in, they sent it home with me because they could not find error codes, problem still present. Finally this last time the technician adjusted some cameras to see if that could fix the problem, it did not. My car is still in your shop at penske Ontario and the technician who called me yesterday said this is a normal feature of this car, and the Honda hotline does not have this problem reported. He informed me that the car is picking up something that is causing it to fail. My commute is at 4am on a non busy freeway, I have not noticed construction nor major road damage when this happens. If the road conditions were the problem, I drive this commute a lot and this does not happen then. This sounds like their is no solution to my problem and I am given a generic answer. I have done my research and I am not the only person experiencing this with the cr V. the dealer has informed me they will be doing nothing further for my problem. This happens multiple times

- Norco, CA, USA

problem #60

Aug 012018

CR-V

  • 7,063 miles
The contact owns a 2018 Honda CR-V. while driving 65 mph, there was a beeping noise coming from the screen and the screen went blank. The vehicle was taken to autonation Honda fremont (5780 cushing pkwy, fremont, ca 94538, (510) 224-4801), but the failure could not be duplicated. The vehicle was not repaired and the failure persisted. The vehicle was taken back to the dealer where they informed the contact that there was a software failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 7,063.

- Palo Alto, CA, USA

problem #59

Sep 272019

CR-V

  • 12,500 miles

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

The contact owns a 2018 Honda CR-V. while driving 65 mph, the cruise control and road departure warning indicators illuminated. There was also a mitigation system failure and a beeping noise was heard. The driver coasted into a parking lot and depressed the brake pedal, and all the warning indicators turned off. The contact called buerkle Honda (3360 hey 61 N vadnais heights, mn 55110, (651) 490-6600) where an appointment was scheduled. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer or an independent mechanic for diagnostic testing. The contact stated that the failure recurred twice. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 12,500.

- Woodbury, MN, USA

problem #58

Oct 022019

CR-V

  • 20,000 miles
On 9/23/19 parked the vehicle. Shut off vehicle while still in drive. The vehicle did not alert me that the car was not in park. Got out of car and door locked like everything was okay - no other beeps or notifications. Vehicle rolled out of driveway and hit a tree causing significant rear damage (thankfully did not hit any other vehicle or pedestrian). Brought to Honda dealership and they could not find anything although I explained that the warning indicators work intermittently. Finally on 10/2/19 I videotaped an incident where it did not alert me in anyway when I shut the car off and left in the drive gear (images from video attached). Honda states emergency parking brake should always be engaged; however, this does not fix the fact that the safety notifications are not working as expected. Definitely a vehicle safety issue.

- Auburndale, MA, USA

problem #57

Sep 212019

CR-V

  • miles
I bought a Honda CR-V 2018 last year in May. The vehicle only have 8000 miles on it. Now I recently notice that when I am starting the car when pressing on the brake and pressing the start button. It will try to start but fails. It seems you need to do this numerous times to start the vehicle. This have been happening to me in the last 3 days. I called the Honda dealer about it and schedule an appointment with them tomorrow.

- Midland, TX, USA

problem #56

Feb 232019

CR-V

  • 7,500 miles

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

Reoccurring issue of the infotainment screen either freezing or going bazerk while driving. Either nothing works, including the power button to turn the whole display off, or the button works, cuts the display off and the radio continues to play, or the display starts flashing between screens, adjusting the brightness, beeping continuously and sometimes making phone calls all while driving down the road. The only way to get it to stop is to pull off the road and cut the car off. This seems to be an issue with multiple people posting here..... who knows how many people aren't going thru this process to report. Isn't this distraction while driving dangerous enough to be investigated and provide for a recall. I have a video but don't know how to load it. It has happened multiple times before and after the video I took, but I'll use the date of the video. Hoping that posting to this site will bring some action.

- Chesapeake, VA, USA

problem #55

Aug 242019

CR-V

  • 20,000 miles
All electronics started to fail, steering jammed, lost control of vehicle. Service center diagnosed problem to broken power steering motor. Vehicle was in motion entering a highway. Aug 24th 2019. Electronic brake failure and car wouldn't start - Sep 11, 2019.

- Allen, TX, USA

problem #54

Sep 052019

CR-V

  • 27,538 miles
My recent encounter was on a two lane road traveling at 40 mph. No cars were in front of me and a car was about 2 car lengths behind me. A MINIschool bus was heading in the other direction about 2 car lengths on the other side of the road. I had my two grandchildren in the car with me, when all of a sudden the car breaked hard sending all my things on the floor and scarring my granddaughters. I was shaken myself being nearly rear ended by the car behind me. I took it in to atlantic Honda, and was told ' no problems were found on the computer and could not duplicate the issue'. 'never had anyone complain of this'. I also advised them, the break light flashes 'out of the blue' while driving on the highway with no other cars around. I was told to bring it in if it happens again. I feel on edge driving the car not knowing if it will break unexpectedly!

- Melbourne, FL, USA

problem #53

Aug 142019

CR-V

  • 41,846 miles
I continue to get random "lane departure" when driving down a normal road. Have taken to the dealer twice and they can not repeat the problem. Today I was driving on a one way street in city traffic with nobody in front of me and several behind me, as I was going through a signal light intersection the CRV went into collision alert with a warning on the dash and beeping, it slammed on the brakes and I was almost rear ended. There was nobody in front of me or coming from either side of the cross street. This has happen one time before when I was passing through a construction zone and one lane had cones cutting a two lane down to one lane. It again slammed an the brakes as if I was leaving the road. I also have problems with the auto dimming headlights that dim when they should not and go to bright sometimes when meeting traffic and should be dim. I have taken to the dealer for this also more than one time and they could not repeat the problem. I also get random messages that power has been lost to my information center (pictures included). I do not feel safe in this Honda CRV and the dealer seems they are just wanting me to be out of warranty or don't care.

- Du Bois, IL, USA

problem #52

Jul 272019

CR-V

  • 6,900 miles

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

I was driving Saturday 27, 2019 about 9:00 am in the pulaski skyway in New Jersey then all of the sudden all the display warning lights went on and off until the car stall and the engine just stop working but the warning lights( every single one) just kept going on and off. I couldn't do anything as you may know the pulaski skyway has not place to pull over, you can imagine the traffic jam that my broke down car cause. The weekend of the 07/21/2019 I had a strong smell of gasoline in the cabin and when I check the oil dipstick it was overfill and had the strong smell of gasoline I called the dealer planet Honda and they told me to bring my car to check on 07/25/2019, the same day the dealer called me and said that is nothing wrong with the car and the smell of gasoline and the overfill engine oil was normal. I have no confidence on driving my Honda CRV anymore. I bought the car on 06/15/2019 with 5,300 miles on it.

- Roselle, NJ, USA

problem #51

Sep 232018

CR-V

  • 6,000 miles
The audio control panel (radio, heat, light brightness, etc) has a mind of it's own and at times will get into a mode where it cycles all the controls on-off-changing volume-brightness-switching radio stations and other things. It had been reported several times to the dealership with no faults found. I finall managed to capture this on my camera and sent it to the dealer. They then replaced the panel. No issues for a couple months and then it started again. I returned to the dealer who told me Honda would not try to do anything to fix the issue. The subcontractor who made these panels was aware it had problems and "were working on a fix". in the mean time I have to try to drive with it making all these changes while it blinks, changes intensity and volume. This is a very substandard situation.I have movies of the panel doing this but no pictures.

- Huntsville, AR, USA

problem #50

Jul 182019

CR-V

  • 22,000 miles
Driving down the hwy with cruise control on suddenly get errors listed below, has happened twice. Errors automatically clear after car is turned off and back on. Cruise control and other sensing features unavailable while errors show on dashboard. Errors: Brake system, adaptive cruise control problem, road departure mitigation system problem, collision mitigation system problem. Car has approximately 22K miles.

- Glastonbury, CT, USA

problem #49

Jul 032019

CR-V

  • miles
Warning lights flashing then had software update ac control all that was on the bulletin, lights flashing again warning lights so at 38,000 had to have fuel injectors, one warning light came on since then after cutting car off hasn't come back on yet both stationary, and in motion.

- Charlotte, NC, USA

problem #48

Mar 012019

CR-V

  • 23,000 miles
The contact owns a 2018 Honda CR-V. while driving various speeds, an abnormal beeping noise was heard and the radio lighting and instrument panel indicators flashed on and off. The vehicle was taken to jenkins Honda of leesburg (8865 us-441, leesburg, fl 34788, (352) 815-2482) to be diagnosed, but the cause of the failure was undetermined. The failure recurred. The vehicle was taken back to the dealer where it was diagnosed that the battery needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired; however, the failure persisted four more times. The manufacturer was notified of the failures. The approximate failure mileage was 23,000.

- The Village, FL, USA

problem #47

Jun 252019

CR-V

  • miles
The navigation/infotainment display works intermittently while driving the vehicle, it becomes unusable and also just blacks out so if you are using the navigation while driving it becomes inoperable and the only way to correct it is to pull over turn the car off and restart it which is dangerous. Honda has stated that they are aware of the problem but have no solution yet.

- Mendon, NY, USA

problem #46

May 222019

CR-V

  • miles
There are recurring problems with the infotainment system display: 1. numerous times the display has gone full freak-out while the car was in motion. The display turns itself on and off, attempts to adjust its own brightness and repeatedly beeps. The only way to stop the madness is to pull over and shut the car off. This is a totally uncool thing to happen when one is trying to pay attention to the traffic around them. Please also reference NHTSA complaint #11132814 for this same vehicle. 2. even though the touch screen sensitivity is set the highest level, sometimes you must press the 'cyber buttons' repeatedly before the unit registers that you have pressed a button. While I am motoring down the road pressing faux buttons 10-15 times to try to get the unit to do something guess where my eyes are not'yeah, on the road in front of me where my eyes should be paying attention. The manufacturer states that my infotainment system display/control unit is working per spec.

- Rohnert Park, CA, USA

problem #45

May 242019

CR-V

  • 8,000 miles
At random times while driving the infotainment screen randomly starts flashing and beeping. With the brightness control bar popping up at the bottom of the screen. This is very distracting to the driver while operating the vehicle. This has happened three time while the vehicle was in motion on at highway speeds and while driving in traffic. The only way to stop this is to turn the car off. This is a big saftey issue for safe operation of the vehicle and it will cause an accident for someone. It seems to happen randomly I belive it may happen when the navigation system is activated and the car has an android phone attached however I am unable to replicate it. It has happened 4 times. My vehicle has 8000 miles on it. Additionally there are report on the internet that this has happend to other drivers as well. I reported this by telephone to customer service at Honda as well 0N 05/30/2019. I also had an issue that onetime this winter I started the car and the sunroof automatically opened and could not be closed for about 1 hour. Luckily it was not raining or snowing that day. There seems to be a number of issues with the electronic control system on this vehicle.

- New York, NY, USA

problem #44

Apr 232019

CR-V

  • 11,000 miles
Radio screen randomly starts adjusting its brightness. The first time this happened was 4/32/19, but it has happened to me multiple times since then all while driving and there is nothing I could do to make it stop other then restarting the car. It is very distracting because it is constantly beeping while it is trying to make this adjustment. I tried turning the radio off, this did not help. I was told by the Honda dealership to hit the dim button on the screen, but this did not work either. The only way that I have been able to resolve this is to pull off the highway/road turn the car off and back on.

- Appleton, WI, USA

problem #43

May 222019

CR-V

  • 12,000 miles
While driving my 2018 CRV-ex the dashboard info display will randomly adjust brightness and turn it on/off. The only way to stop it it is to pull over and restart the car. Very dangerous. Will do it twice in one day and then not happen for several days.

- Waretown, NJ, USA

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