Other steering problem on the 2009 Honda CR-V
Only 5 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 other steering problem gets reported
There are 5 reports of other steering problem on the 2009 Honda CR-V, 5 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 18th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 28,000 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
Putting it right typically runs $350–$2,400 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 26 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2005, at a median of 200 miles, and latest on the 2026 at 170,000 miles.
By volume the 2023 carries the most reports, with 236; the 2009 has 5. 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.
2009 honda crv veers to the right. If even for a split second one lets go of the steering wheel, the crv veers immediately into the right lane in a total time of 2-3 seconds. This has been a known defect over the years and honda has refused to recall and NHTSA has failed to follow through. If you just google this issue, you will see a number of similar complaints. I have had to have an independent mechanic skew the alignment to offset this defect as a temporary fix. Calls to honda regional rep says it is up to the dealer to fix it and refuses to acknowledge safety issue or recall. The dealer says "its normal". A report to NHTSA last year has gone ignored. *tr
I had been driving for about 90 minutes in a snowstorm. The road was snowpacked but it was daytime and visibility was acceptable. The vehicle was handling just fine as one would expect when taking extra care due to inclement conditions. I felt safe and in control at about 45 to 50 MPH. When suddenly the car began feeling strange....like everything about the handling had gotten loose. It felt like we were swaying, and like we were slipping into ruts, but there were none. Road conditions had not changed. My passenger said that it felt like she was in a boat. I kept fighting the steering so it wouldn't cross into the oncoming traffic lane. I slowed to about 30. I pulled off the road onto the shoulder to examine the wheels, but found nothing out of the ordinary. We pressed on at slow speeds as other vehicles began passing us. I pulled off again and shut off the engine. Thought about calling aaa, but we were in the middle-of-nowhere, about midway between guymon, ok and tucumcari, nm. We were determined to get to tucumcari where we could stop at a dealer for service. The out-of-control, swaying sensation persisted until we drove through…
I bought a new 2009 honda cr-v in dec 2008. After around 30k miles or so, I noticed the car pulling to the left at highway speeds. I took the car in to a local mechanic for an alignment and tire rotation but nothing they did fixed the issue. I then brought it to the honda dealership since it was still under warranty and they conducted their own alignment and tire rotation (at my expense since alignments are not covered under warranty). This still did not fix the issue and the dealership told me there was nothing else they could do. My car still pulls to the left at highway speeds. I am concerned that this issue may get worse and cause an accident. *tr
Also reported on the 2009 Honda CR-V
Airbag inflator rupture
Other body or interior problem
Other electrical problem
Air conditioning failure
Other wheel or tire problem
Rust or structural corrosion
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 5 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 5 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 steering problem happen on the 2009 Honda CR-V?
Across 5 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 30,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other steering problem on the 2009 Honda CR-V?
5 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.0 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