2018 HONDA CR-V — Complaint #2178630
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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY/WIPER filed February 19, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2178630 (ODI reference 11719175) concerns a 2018 HONDA CR-V and was filed on February 19, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 18, 2026. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility/wiper, 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 visibility/wiper 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 2018 HONDA CR-V shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
⢠The Incident: "The rear window shattered spontaneously while the vehicle was in motion. My wife was driving, I was in the passenger seat, and our two children were in the back seat." ⢠The Risk: "The explosion of glass occurred inches away from my children's heads. This is a severe safety hazard caused by a known manufacturing defect in the rear defroster grid".
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2178630 |
| ODI Number | 11719175 |
| Date Filed | February 19, 2026 |
| Failure Date | February 18, 2026 |
| VIN | 5J6RW1H56JA |
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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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