2003 Honda CR-V: jerking or lurching

Filed Feb 1, 2019 · Transmission · 168,885 miles · MA

While driving, the check engine light flickers and the transmission jerks while in 1st gear.

Filed Dec 16, 2010 · Steering · 139,100 miles · VA

In my 2003 honda crv ex I had been noticing that my steering wheel tilt lock lever had been getting looser after each time I adjusted the steering wheel position. Sometimes I would just be driving down the street and the steering wheel would suddenly go up and down and I would have to react very quickly by pushing the steering wheel tilt lever back up into the locking position. Eventually this problem would occur up to 5 times a day. Recently I was driving on the interstate with my entire family in my crv. I was going approximately 64 miles an hour when suddenly the steering wheel lurched almost out of my hands after going over a small bump. I was surrounded by vehicles on all sides and almost lost control of my vehicle. If I did not act very quickly by pulling the tilt lever back into the locking position there would have been a terrible multicar accident on the interstate and me and my family could have been injured or killed. I called my local honda dealership and explained what happened and if there was a recall on the faulty tilt lever. They said they were not aware of a recall for this item. This is a very serious and potentially life threatening defect that should be addressed by honda immediately.

Filed Jan 23, 2006 · Acceleration · 35,000 miles · OH

I was driving my 2003 honda crv on the second day of our trip from ohio to florida. There were two adults, and two small children in the car. We were traveling at highway speed with the cruise control on. I had my feet tucked near my seat away from the pedals. The car accelerated on its own, nearing the car in front of us. I put my right foot down on the brake, and it went completely to the floor with no braking or slowing down. I then put my left foot on the clutch to make sure my feet were in the correct place, and the clutch went to the floor with my left foot. I tried my right foot again on the brake with no resistance, and no slowing down. I then tried to disengage the cruise control with the hand controls on the steering wheel, with no result. All during this time,the car continued to consistently accelerate to the car in front of us. Knowing only that the steering worked at that point I jerked the wheel to the right in order to avoid ramming the car in front of us. Thankfully, there was not a car to our right, there was to the left. The car swerved violently, and shifted upwards as to roll. I pulled the wheel to the left and swerved again. We swerved several times, and at that point I was able to get the car back in control again. We took the car to a honda dealership in florida, and they tried to recreate the situation. Good thing they couldn't. They, too, may have nearly died. They suggested we take it to the honda dealership once we were home in ohio, which we did. They said it checked out fine. This is a classic case of sudden acceleration. At least 4 very valuable lives were nearly taken, and probably more, given the inevitable entanglement we would have caused with other cars near/behind us on the highway.

Filed Jan 10, 2005 · Transmission · 43,000 miles · LA

While driving in a fog convoy at about 30 miles an hour, after about 15 miles the check engine light came on, and the transmission started to "jerk" during downshifting and "hang" during upshifting.

Filed Oct 28, 2004 · Transmission · 25,000 miles · CA

Honda cr-v 4wd, auto, 2003 with 25000 m. Incidents - as the automatic transmission down shifted from up gear to 1st, there was a "jerk" and I almost hit vehicle up front my during the wet weather condition. After that I made testing on parking lot, that I can reproduce this jerk, and it reproducible. I drive car slow on first gear and slowly push a brake, not any jerk. But when I let car to shift to up a second and third gear and than gently to push brake, before car completely stop I feeling a jerk, that very dangerously on wet surface. Also I found in several forums, that people got roll over and thinking that case of ABS or brake problem, but a same effect can be case when gears unexpectedly shifted down.

Filed Nov 6, 2003 · Acceleration, Transmission · 15,000 miles · NJ

After the shift cable the federal safety agency recall campaign 03v 274000 was performed the vehicle jerked forward when slowing down or stopping. Also, when starting the vehicle it idled high.