2014 HONDA CR-V — Complaint #1172107
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING filed April 6, 2015
NHTSA complaint #1172107 (ODI reference 10703916) concerns a 2014 HONDA CR-V and was filed on April 6, 2015. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 2, 2015. The vehicle had 5,682 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same HONDA CR-V cohort independently describe similar engine and engine cooling failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2014 HONDA CR-V shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I'M HAVING THE SAME VTC ACTUATOR PROBLEM AS MANY OTHERS ARE HAVING. STARTED AFTER FIRST OIL CHANGE. SEVERAL TIMES IN WEATHER BELOW 40 BUT HAS NOW MADE SAME GRINDING NOISE FROM 60 DEGREE DOWN. JUST NOT AS MUCH AND NOT AS BAD SOUNDING LIKE WHEN BELOW 40. ALSO HEARD IT WHILE DRIVING ON A TRIP FOR 3 HOURS AT 75MPH. HONDA CUSTOMER SERVICE ( I RECORDED CALLS )SAID THEIR JOB IS TO FIX UNDER WARRANTY . BUT THEY HAVE NO FIX AND ONLY TRIED ONCE. I WAS TOLD NOT ALL DO IT, SOMETIMES REPLACING THE PART WILL FIX IT. THEY ONLY TRIED ONCE. I TOOK IT IN 3 TIMES AND MENTION IT MORE THAN 3 TIMES BUT THEY WILL NOT EVEN TRY. MY GUESS , THEY DON'T WANT 4 FAILED ATTEMPTS ON FIXING IT. THEN YOU COULD FILE LEMON LAW ETC. THEY HAVE FOUND AWAY TO WORK THE LAWS IN THEIR FAVOR. SO NOW OWNERS ARE SCREWED. A QUOTE FROM ANOTHER COMPLAINT I READ PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT UP FOR ME EXCEPT, I BOUGHT CRV IN LONGVIEW TEXAS. LITTLE OVER 5K MILES WHEN PROBLEM STARTED. I THINK THEY SHOULD GIVE A LIFE TIME WARRANT ON THE VT
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1172107 |
| ODI Number | 10703916 |
| Date Filed | April 6, 2015 |
| Failure Date | January 2, 2015 |
| VIN | 3CZRM3H55EG |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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