Other body or interior problem on the 2003 Honda CR-V
4 crashes 1 injury 5 of the 46 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other body or interior problem gets reported
Owners of the 2003 Honda CR-V report other body or interior problem at a median of 70,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 50,000 miles and a quarter after 110,000 miles, from 41 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 1st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 37,500 miles at the tenth percentile to 132,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 94,349 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
7% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37,406 miles | 49,960 miles | 70,000 miles | 110,000 miles | 131,755 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 4 a crash and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $200–$2,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 28 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2022, at a median of 200 miles, and latest on the 2021 at 135,000 miles.
By volume the 2008 carries the most reports, with 256; the 2003 has 46. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
On 7/29/03 at about 7:45 am my grandson opened the hood of my new honda crv in order to get a "jump start" to start his car. I closed the hood, heard a snap, gently tested the hood for closure and moved on. At about 10:00 am I started to burlington and after about 10 miles, while on the interstate doing 60 MPH, the hood flew open and banged against the windshield. Thanks to scant traffic and about a 2 inch slot below the hood, I was able to pull safely to the side of the road. I was able to force the hood (reshape) enough to get it closed and drive on. At about 11:30 returned to the dealer (shearer honda in rutland vt) where the head mechanic and service manager determined that the hood latches worked correctly. They noted "creasing" of the coating on the hood support rod at about where it might have been creased had it mistakingly been inserted into the safety latch (the safetey latch has a u shaped area not unlike the support rod rod holder on my previous chevie s-10 pickup). I was told that since it was not a warranty problem I should contact my insurance company and file a claim. However, since it seemed to me to be a safety…
December 22, 2003, the hood of my 2003 honda crv flew up and broke the windshield, while I was crossing a bridge in very windy conditions. The car had been serviced the previous month and there was also an oil change (november), when the hood was last opened. There was no prior indication the hood was not secure.
I purchased my 2003 cr-v in april of 2003. In june I was on the highway with my kids in the car going 70mph when my hood flew up and hit the windshield. I called honda several times, and they said I have to turn it in to my insurance company, it is not their problem. It was late at night, and had that happened another mile down the road, we would have all been killed. The road had cement barriers and went down to one lane.
Also reported on the 2003 Honda CR-V
Other engine problem
Other electrical problem
Air conditioning failure
Headlight failure or clouding
Other speed control problem
Other visibility problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 46 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other body or interior problem happen on the 2003 Honda CR-V?
Across 41 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 70,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 50,000 miles and a quarter after 110,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other body or interior problem on the 2003 Honda CR-V?
46 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.3 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed