Unclassified problem on the 2004 Honda CR-V
13 crashes 6 injuries 19 of the 77 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.
Only 28 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.
When unclassified problem gets reported
Owners of the 2004 Honda CR-V report unclassified problem at a median of 112,500 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 77,500 miles and a quarter after 142,500 miles, from 28 reports that carried an odometer reading.
It is the 55th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 37,500 miles at the tenth percentile to 182,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 144,700 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.
11% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37,000 miles | 76,720 miles | 113,000 miles | 141,268 miles | 181,700 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, 13 a crash and 6 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.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 27 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2023, at a median of 600 miles, and latest on the 1997 at 200,000 miles.
By volume the 2017 carries the most reports, with 199; the 2004 has 77. 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.
I have less than 30,000 miles and my A/C is not working....and ofcourse the deals tells me it will cost me $700 to replace. I told him that the reason I bought a honda is its reputation...if an american car does not have these problems why should I pay more for a honda and pay more for maintainence. I told them it is a design flaw... It is 4x4 so they expect you not to ride on tough roads??? It seems that this problem is very common on new honda cars, SUV's and vans. If honda expects a f$x$ to ride on tough roads does it mean that your A/C should not work because a small peble gets in? Honda should be asked to fix the problem for free... It is a design flaw. Well...if it gets really hot do they expect you not to use the A/C? Are we supposed to fry in heat? Pay or you fry...nice money making machine that honda has found. I hope they are not allowed to do business in the united states if they do not have good business practice. We should all join in and fight for honda to correct their bad design. They should be responsible.
On august 13, 2009 my husband was involved in an automobile accident in which he was hit in the drivers side door. The car was totaled. The two front airbags deployed but the driver's side airbag did not. His injuries were not life threatening but he still suffers with pain from the bruises and abrasions plus a small hairline fracture of a lower vertebra. Perhaps some of these injuries could have been avoided or lessened had the side airbag deployed. We called our honda dealer and he referred us to honda company. I talked with a christine at honda and explained what had happened and her reply was that honda does not investigate accidents. I told her that I would be reporting the problem to the NHTSA and would like it documented that I had also reported it to honda. She gave me a case # n012009-0800615081700615. I will be contacting honda again as I was not satisfied with the response I received from them. I am reporting the problem to you in hopes that if this is a common problem with the side airbags something may be done about it. Thank you. *tr
Tl* the contact owns a 2004 honda cr-v. While driving approximately 2 MPH into an intersection, the contact crashed into the proceeding vehicle. The contact sustained minor injury to the back, shoulder and left arm. A police report was filed for the incident. The air bags failed to deploy during the impact. The vehicle was towed to a collision center and repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the malfunction. The approximate failure mileage was 40,000.
Also reported on the 2004 Honda CR-V
Other engine problem
Air conditioning failure
Other electrical problem
Other body or interior problem
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
Headlight failure or clouding
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 77 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.
Complaints are voluntary, so 77 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 unclassified problem happen on the 2004 Honda CR-V?
Across 28 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 112,500 miles. A quarter were filed before 77,500 miles and a quarter after 142,500 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is unclassified problem on the 2004 Honda CR-V?
77 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.4 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