CarComplaints.com Notes: It's rare when a newer vehicle has defect trends. Judging from the identical 2017 model year, the 2018 Honda CR-V is likely to have at least two — overfilled oil levels with a gas smell, & heat not working.
Both problems affecting the Honda CR-V's 1.5L "Earth Dreams" engine appear to be related to cold-climate regions.
CR-V owners report overfilled oil levels due to fuel in the oil, & sometimes a gas smell in the cabin. That problem appears to be related to fuel injection which Honda hopes to fix via a software update. Honda so far has only conducted a recall in China & a "product update" in Canada.
CR-V owners also report no heat even after warming up their CR-Vs for 30 minutes — not even enough to defrost the windshield. So far, there has been no fix from Honda for this issue.
9.6
really awful- Typical Repair Cost:
- $2,510
- Average Mileage:
- 75,400 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 5 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
- not sure (2 reports)
- change engine (1 reports)
- had to replace fuel injectors (1 reports)
- replace head gasket and injectors (1 reports)
engine problem
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
Initially started my car on the way to the dealership for oil change and B2 maintenance reminder, upon starting my car all the dash lights came on and stayed on, so I continued to the dealership. After a $180 diagnostic fee I was told the fuel injectors were bad, they initially thought it might be a head gasket since they were having a lot of cars coming in for that problem. But they replaced the injectors and blamed me because I have not driven the car enough, never heard of that. The car has 24k so why did fuel injectors go out from lack of use. I have a 2005 CR-V with 135k and its running great, never had on injector problems, I thinking there was a defect in this year model and Honda does not want to own up to it
- James C., Bellevue, US