Honda will start rolling out fixes for their faulty Honda CR-V turbo engines in December in these states, first.
Earlier last month I wrote about how some Honda CR-V’s in cold climate areas, most notably China, were suffering from rising oil levels that was later found out to be a mixture of fuel and oil. As per Consumer Reports who were one of the first news outlets to raise a stink about this problem, getting the rest of the world’s attention, they’ve provided an update from Honda earlier this week (Oct. 31,2018.) It looks like Honda will be rolling out a comprehensive “recall” (notice the quotes) that will see several key parts of Honda’s 1.5T engine either upgraded or replaced.
By informing the consumer, one of the key tenets to a successful recall, Honda dropped an informational video shortly before informing Consumer Reports and CR-V owners what they would do. Dubbed, understanding oil dilution, Honda says that rising levels of oil and gas is totally normal.
The “recall” repair of sorts includes new software for the engine and transmission control units, an oil change, and possibly replacing your air conditioning control unit, which is interesting.
Honda of North America will roll out this repair in Maine, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, which, not surprisingly, are cold-weather states.
Over the following two months, the company will extend the fix to those vehicles in 16 additional states: Alaska, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Consumer Reports does recommend this vehicle despite this worrying issue.
The fact is that the amount of people actually reporting rising oil levels is very low. With the CR-V Turbo being on sale for the better part of two years now, selling more than half a million CR-V’s, the vast majority, I’d guesstimate 99.5 percent of owners, aren’t experiencing rising oil levels normal drives burn up any fuel that collects in the oil reserve. So, it’s no surprise when this issue hits the news when a couple thousand CR-V’s could be affected.
A full-blown recall with every CR-V coming in for a fix would be unnecessary and counterintuitive. Honda is taking a cautious approach and focusing on those CR-V’s most likely to be affected.
For everyone else not in those states with a CR-V getting the first fix, rest easy and drive on.
Source: Consumer Reports
