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Unclassified problem on the 2007 Honda CR-V

9 crashes 1 fire 7 injuries 1 death 18 of the 125 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 39 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.

Reports of this failure 125
With an odometer reading 39
Reports per 1,000 built 1.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 13%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 18
Typical repair —
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 58th

When unclassified problem gets reported

Owners of the 2007 Honda CR-V report unclassified problem at a median of 90,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 57,500 miles and a quarter after 130,000 miles, from 39 reports that carried an odometer reading.

It is the 58th most-reported problem on this model year.

The mileage distribution

The reported range runs from 20,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 147,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 127,874 miles across the middle 80% of reports.

A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.

13% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 39 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
19,432 miles 56,500 miles 90,000 miles 129,000 miles 147,306 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, 9 a crash, 1 a fire, 7 an injury and 1 a fatality 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 2007 has 125. 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.

What owners wrote

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.

Tl*the contact owns a 2007 honda cr-v. While driving approximately 35-40 MPH, the contact rear ended the preceding vehicle. As a result, the vehicle behind the contact rear ended her vehicle, pushing her even further into the vehicle she struck. The air bags failed to deploy and she sustained severe injuries such as a broken sternum. The vehicle was towed and taken to a repair shop, where it has remained for approximately two months. The failure and current mileages were 10,000. Updated 12/31/07 *kb updated 12/31/07 *tr

10,000 miles NHTSA complaint 640750 filed 2007-10-01

Tl*the contact owns a 2007 honda cr-v. The contact stated that there were sightings of mouse droppings in her vehicle, which was kept in a farm shed. The following day, she caught a mouse with a mouse trap. There had been no failure or physical damage to date. The current and failure mileages were 10,000.

10,000 miles NHTSA complaint 663309 filed 2008-03-27

Honda 2007 slid during icy conditions hitting a guardrail and damaging the rear of the vehicle. Side airbags deployed pinning the driver's head between the airbag and the side window resulting in a concussion and abrasions to the head and face. Front airbags did not deploy. *tr

50,500 miles NHTSA complaint 844275 filed 2011-02-26

Also reported on the 2007 Honda CR-V

Other body or interior problem

254 reports median 84k

Other electrical problem

215 reports median 80k

Airbag inflator rupture

179 reports median 101k

Other suspension problem

24 reports median 99k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 125 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 125 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 2007 Honda CR-V?

Across 39 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 90,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 57,500 miles and a quarter after 130,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is unclassified problem on the 2007 Honda CR-V?

125 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 1.0 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