Other visibility problem on the 2012 Honda CR-V
1 injury 1 of the 21 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 visibility problem gets reported
Owners of the 2012 Honda CR-V report other visibility problem at a median of 20,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 300 miles and a quarter after 40,000 miles, from 19 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 75,000 miles. It is the 6th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 100 miles at the tenth percentile to 55,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 57,165 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
Reports bunched into a band this tight usually mean the component has a life of its own: it goes at roughly the same mileage regardless of who owns it.
68% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 115 miles | 300 miles | 20,000 miles | 40,500 miles | 57,280 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, 1 an injury is 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 $150–$1,400 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 2023, at a median of 20 miles, and latest on the 2002 at 150,000 miles.
By volume the 2018 carries the most reports, with 35; the 2012 has 21. 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.
Tl* the contact owns a 2012 honda cr-v . The contact stated that there was a line on the driver's side mirror that caused dizziness while operating the vehicle. The line in the mirror was part of the mirror's design. The manufacturer was not contacted in regard to the issue. There were no repairs and the VIN was unavailable. The failure mileage was 150 and the current mileage was 400.
When I attempted to move the sun visor to block the sun coming in the drivers side window, it fell out of the overhead. I had to pull over and stop the car while holding the visor. With luck, I was on a rural road with no traffic. I was able to put it up in place and lock it into the clip to hold it. I contacted my local dealer and took it in to have them look at it. They said that they would order a new one. After a couple weeks when they didn't call, I called them and found out that the visor was on backorder. It took about five weeks before they got the new visor. I took the car in to have it fixed and after a couple of hours the service rep told me that the new part didn't work and that they didn't know why. They said that they were going to contact honda technical for a resolution, and they would have an answer in about two days. The next day I found out the passenger side sun visor was doing the same thing. When they didn't call, I called them and got the two day story again. After the third time that they didn't have an answer, I called honda's main customer service and registered a complaint. I got a complaint number and…
Tl* the contact owns a 21012 honda crv. The contact stated that he rear lift gate window was struck by a rock and caused the wiper blade to separate from the window as the glass exploded and shattered into several pieces. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure and the current mileage was 115. ...updated 10/03/12 *bf updated 10/09/2012 *js
Also reported on the 2012 Honda CR-V
Other engine problem
Other electrical problem
Other powertrain problem
Other body or interior problem
Other steering problem
Heater core failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 21 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 visibility problem happen on the 2012 Honda CR-V?
Across 19 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 20,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 300 miles and a quarter after 40,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other visibility problem on the 2012 Honda CR-V?
21 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 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