This model year has 330 processed complaint reports; STEERING is the most frequently classified system at 33.6% of reports.
Federal telemetry verified ● Model-year dossier
2021 HONDA CR-V
Complaint-pattern analysis from publicly available NHTSA safety records.
1.0Reliability score / 10
System health index
Reliability telemetry
A normalized signal from documented incident volume and NHTSA crash or fire report flags.
Documented incidents330
Reports with crash / fire flags15
Flagged-report share4.55%
Primary reported systemSTEERING
Crash and fire flags identify how a complaint was recorded by NHTSA. They do not establish that a reported component caused the event.
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Available adjacent years span 256–353 reports. This year has more reports than 2022.It has fewer reports than 2020.
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Component analysis
Most frequently reported systems.
STEERING111 documented reports
33.6%FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE87 documented reports
26.4%OTHER / UNSPECIFIED37 documented reports
11.2%ELECTRICAL SYSTEM34 documented reports
10.3%ENGINE32 documented reports
9.7%SERVICE BRAKES27 documented reports
8.2%FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM24 documented reports
7.3%LANE DEPARTURE17 documented reports
5.2%AIR BAGS14 documented reports
4.2%POWER TRAIN12 documented reports
3.6%Show all 26 reported components
VISIBILITY/WIPER10 documented reports
3.0%VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL6 documented reports
1.8%WHEELS5 documented reports
1.5%EXTERIOR LIGHTING4 documented reports
1.2%STRUCTURE4 documented reports
1.2%SEAT BELTS4 documented reports
1.2%FUEL SYSTEM3 documented reports
0.9%GASOLINE3 documented reports
0.9%ENGINE / ENGINE COOLING3 documented reports
0.9%SUSPENSION3 documented reports
0.9%SEATS2 documented reports
0.6%BACK OVER PREVENTION2 documented reports
0.6%HYDRAULIC1 documented reports
0.3%FIRE-RELATED1 documented reports
0.3%TIRES1 documented reports
0.3%AIR1 documented reports
0.3%What the data says
STEERING is the most frequently classified component, appearing in 33.6% of complaint reports in this dataset. This 2021 HONDA CR-V has 330 complaint reports in the records we have processed. One report can be classified under more than one component, so component shares do not add up to 100%.
Compare model years
These nearby model years have 2020: 353 reports · 2022: 256 reports. Complaint totals are not failure rates and should be read with vehicle age, sales volume, and reporting patterns in mind.