Control Arm/Bushing Failure

2018 Honda CR-V

This problem may be covered under warranty. Ask your Honda dealer.

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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:
10,650 miles
Total Complaints:
1 complaints

Most Common Solutions:

  1. replaced bushing and control arm (1 reports)
2018 Honda CR-V suspension problems

suspension problem

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2018 Honda CR-V Owner Comments

problem #1

Sep 172019

CR-V EX-L 1.5L T

  • CVT transmission
  • 10,644 miles

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

Around 10k miles we started to hear an odd sound going over bumps and it got progressively worse as time went on. I brought it in to get checked and sure enough it had a bushing that was leaking and the entire control arm had to be replaced.

- Tom C., Cranston, RI, US

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