Unclassified problem on the 2010 Honda CR-V
9 crashes 4 injuries 13 of the 92 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 22 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 2010 Honda CR-V report unclassified problem at a median of 65,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 80,000 miles, from 22 reports that carried an odometer reading.
It is the 49th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 20,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 100,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 80,640 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.
23% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20,960 miles | 45,125 miles | 62,500 miles | 79,852 miles | 101,600 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 and 4 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 2010 has 92. 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.
Driving first in the morning on highway (downhill), dthe driveline vibrates at 60 MPH and above. It felt like engine is not running fast enough to catch up the transmission speed. And fithe gear is engaged at 40-50 MPH, and does not downshifted to 4th or lower gear. It underpowers the car.
On the morning of may 17, 2013, my wife, daughter and I were flying out of town. My wife was in the passenger seat and our daughter in the rear seat. We had a normal drive up to the airport. We parked at express south parking inside the dfw airport to catch the shuttle to our terminal. While my wife and I came out of our car and put our luggage in the shuttle, my daughter did not get out of the car. When we checked on her, we found that she was stuck in her seat and could not get out. It was a big surprise for us to find someone stuck in the car seat who could not get out. Although she had removed the belt from the buckle, she was stuck between the lap belt that was on her lap and the shoulder strap that had gone on her back side. She is of short height (51). We found that the belt was locked and it had become a noose around her waist. We tried very hard to pull the belt to free her but it was very tightly locked and could not be pulled. This created a situation where the belt became a noose. It became a panic situation for us seeing our child stuck in the car and unable to move. Luckily, after a few minutes of trying, my wife…
The driver side air bag symbol lights up by itself and goes off by itself; sometimes it remains on for as long as 15 mins or as short as few mins. It is random and not reproducible on demand. There's nothing one can do on a highway if the airbag fails to deploy as one would expect. When I called the dealer, they wanted a diagnostic fee of $125 to find the problem, and if its not reproducible on demand it may take several tries. This is a manufacturing / design defect and honda should own and resolve this issue, as its not even a part that's subject to wear - like the tires/brakes, etc. *tr
Also reported on the 2010 Honda CR-V
Airbag inflator rupture
Other body or interior problem
Excessive oil consumption
Other electrical problem
Other engine problem
Other powertrain problem
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 92 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 92 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 2010 Honda CR-V?
Across 22 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 65,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 80,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is unclassified problem on the 2010 Honda CR-V?
92 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.7 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