2018 HONDA CR-V Complaints

Driving on parkway at 50 mph, our vehicle began braking on its own. There was no vehicle in front of our vehicle. This occurred twice in past month.

On multiple occasions while driving at highway speeds with the cruise control on the vehicle has slowed down on it's own for no reason. There were no cars immediately in front of me and nothing in the road, but the car just suddenly slowed down. Thankfully there have not been instances of the vehicle braking hard, but is definitely slows abruptly for no reason. This has been noted to happen 3 or 4 times so far in the last month. I took it to the dealership and made them aware of the issue. They were not able to replicate it or find any issues. After I had this happen to me I saw an article on CNN noting that there have been several complaints over this same issue in similar vehicles, so I wanted to make sure it was reported.

Was driving yesterday (2018 Honda CRV) and the brakes suddenly engaged and the big orange brake warning light appeared on the dash. We came to a jarring stop. Nothing in front of us, no rain. Luckily, we were only going about 10 mph and no car behind us. This has happened before but didn't result in such a jarring stop. Other times it was on residential streets but also on freeway. In those incidents it was a quick engagement like a brake pump. The big orange warning light came on in all of those instances.

The automated braking system activation when there was no car in the lane I was traveling in. I pressed on the gas pedal in attempt to override the automated braking system. I don't know if that help but soon enough the braking system release. I was on a freeway in a city and feel lucky to have avoided a collision.

will automatically brake at some point on highway, I notice at some part of the highway exact point the brake will automatically trigger.

I have experienced my car braking when it shouldn’t (beeps and says brake but there is no vehicle or obstacle around) but today was scary. I had just left the highway and was going about 30 mph when suddenly the car stopped throwing me and everything in my car forward. The car beeped but the hard brake had already been applied. There wasn’t anything in front of me or in the oncoming lane. Fortunately the car behind me was able to swerve into the other lane. I have never stomped on the brakes as hard as my car stopped. There were no warning lights or symptoms that this was about to happen - just a beep after the fact. I will call Honda tomorrow to see what needs to be replaced. This could have caused a very bad accident and now I’m scared it will happen again.

The contact owns a 2018 Honda CR-V. The contact stated while driving 70 MPH with the cruise control engaged, the brakes were applied inadvertently. The contact stated that several unknown warning lights were illuminated. Additionally, there was an audible warning buzzer alert. The contact stated that the vehicle decelerated to 30 MPH. The unknown warning lights then deactivated and the vehicle resumed the preset cruise control speed. The contact took the vehicle to the local dealer, where it was diagnosed; however, the dealer was unable to determine the cause of the failure. The dealer confirmed to the contact that there were no associated recalls under the VIN. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact stated that the failure had occurred five times while the cruise control was engaged. The manufacturer had not been informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 29,000.

My car slows down significantly. It feels like I pressed the brake but haven’t. This has happened multiple times. Its disconcerting and I feel like I’m scrambling to make the car go. I think I just press on the gas to make the car go but am not sure this helped or the braking system let go. I believe sometimes I have had cruise on when this happened. The last time I took my car to the dealer I told the mechanic about this occurring and he was confused about what it might be. He did not check anything to evaluate the problem. There were no warning lamps or problems to indicate it was about to happen. I will enter a date below but I don’t know the exact dates it has happened.

I was driving through a green light at 40mph with no vehicles in front of me or next to me and in the middle of the intersection, my dash flashed with the warning to "brake" as it "detected" something in front of me. Within less than 2 seconds my vehicle lurched to a complete stop with the brakes totally locking up the vehicle. The brakes thudded to stop my vehicle entirely in the middle of the intersection. Within a couple more seconds the vehicle was totally fine and let me proceed. I was lucky I wasn't rear-ended and I'm very glad the light wasn't red by the time I was able to go through it. I was carrying my entire family in the car and everyone was so worried about riding with me that I automatically pulled over and disabled the Automatic Emergency Braking system altogether. I've not turned it back on for fear of the vehicle getting me into an accident. I have also received blind spot warnings with nothing in my blind spots. Most specifically, I was in the right hand lane and put on my turn signal to switch into the left hand lane, and my car audibly beeped and flashed its lights. There was not a vehicle or even a barrier to my left that it could have sensed. The sensor just totally gave out. It's at the point where I do not trust anything about the car. I won't even use cruise control because I don't trust that the car's "safety features" are actually safe enough to protect me. I have not had the vehicle inspected due to the fact that this seems to be an issue with other vehicles and I can't afford a mechanic to tell me there is nothing that they can do.

I was driving inside the steel mill where I work at approximately 25mph when the automatic braking light came on and the vehicle came to a sudden stop, hurting my neck and scaring me. There were no other vehicles in sight in front of me or (thankfully) behind me. The only thing I could think of that triggered it was a steel plate that is embedded in the roadway. I have to cross several of them to get to my office and they have not triggered the automatic braking before or since, but I travel about 20 miles each way day on a highway with heavy traffic and a 70mph speed limit. I am extremely concerned that this will happen while traveling at a high rate of speed with a semi truck behind me.