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Electrical · 3 owner reports

Ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure on the 2020 Honda CR-V

Only 0 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 3
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $250–$1,500
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 36th

When ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure gets reported

There are 3 reports of ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure on the 2020 Honda CR-V. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 36th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $250–$1,500 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 19 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2023, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 1999 at 175,000 miles.

By volume the 2007 carries the most reports, with 59; the 2020 has 0. 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.

Median
  1. 1997 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 70k
  2. 1998 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 124k
  3. 1999 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 174k
  4. 2000 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 146k
  5. 2001 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 159k
  6. 2002 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 85k
  7. 2003 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 46k
  8. 2004 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 160k
  9. 2005 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 75k
  10. 2007 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 84k
  11. 2008 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 67k
  12. 2009 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 85k
  13. 2010 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 67k
  14. 2011 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 57k
  15. 2012 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 53k
  16. 2013 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 25k
  17. 2014 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 6k
  18. 2015 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  19. 2016 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 6k
  20. 2017 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 36k
  21. 2018 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 15k
  22. 2019 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 10k
  23. 2020 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  24. 2021 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  25. 2022 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  26. 2023 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 4k
  27. 2024 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  28. 2025 Honda CR-V ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure 11k

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2020 Honda CR-V

Other driver assistance problem

64 reports median 27k

Other engine problem

24 reports median 36k

Other electrical problem

21 reports median 12k

Other fuel system problem

19 reports median 6k

Fuel pump failure

18 reports median 47k

Other powertrain problem

18 reports median 8k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 3 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 3 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.

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