NHTSA Safety Recalls
2001 Honda CR-V Recalls
The 2001 Honda CR-V has 1 NHTSA safety recall on file, the newest reported on January 17, 2020.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2001 Honda CR-V. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 1
- Owner complaints
- 142
- Crashes reported
- 11
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
3 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2001 Honda CR-V, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
1 recall on the 2001 Honda CR-V
Air bags: frontal: driver side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 20V027000
- Reported
- January 17, 2020
- Vehicles affected
- up to 875,966
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash, injury and death
- Same campaign
- also 2000 CR-V, 7 other models
2001 Honda CR-V complaints by year
NHTSA has received 142 owner complaints about the 2001 Honda CR-V, the newest on June 16, 2026. Of these, 11 describe a crash (8%) and 3 a fire; owners reported 9 injuries and 1 death.
In complaints about the 2001 Honda CR-V, the component group named most often is the air bags (37%), followed by the engine and engine cooling (17%) and the engine (6%).
The 2001 Honda CR-V's only recall also concerns the air bags.
Where 2001 Honda CR-V owners gave the mileage (73 complaints), the median was 100,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Air Bags52
- Engine And Engine Cooling24
- Engine9
- Tires8
- Visibility8
- Electrical System7
Complaints received, by year
| 2001 | 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 6 | |
| 2003 | 10 | |
| 2004 | 2 | |
| 2005 | 7 | |
| 2006 | 7 | |
| 2007 | 5 | |
| 2008 | 11 | |
| 2009 | 7 | |
| 2010 | 5 | |
| 2011 | 6 | |
| 2012 | 2 | |
| 2013 | 4 | |
| 2014 | 4 | |
| 2015 | 3 | |
| 2016 | 4 | |
| 2017 | 3 | |
| 2018 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 43 | |
| 2021 | 2 | |
| 2022 | 1 | |
| 2023 | 1 | |
| 2024 | 1 | |
| 2026 | 2 |
Complaints about the 2001 Honda CR-V peaked in 2020, when NHTSA received 43. 15% arrived between 2000 and 2004, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2001 vehicles, the 2001 Honda CR-V drew 0.1× the complaints of the median Honda CR-V year in the same window: 23rd highest of the 23 ranked years.
That makes 2001 one of the three best-measured Honda CR-V years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 3/5
The 142 complaints about the 2001 Honda CR-V are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Honda CR-V by model year
Other 2001 Honda models
Newest record on this page: June 16, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted