I purchased a 2006 honda cr-v 2 years ago. My trade in vehicle was a 1997 honda cr-v. Since shortly after purchasing my car, I have had a recurring problem with the headlights blowing out, and sometimes the dome light inside the passenger area of the car. The headlights are blowing out on average, every two months. During the last year or 2 before trading the 1997 cr-v, I had similar problems with the headlights blowing on that vehicle also. I purchased my car from hendricks honda in charleston, sc. I have most of my service, including oil changes, done at that dealers service department. I have repeatedly asked that they investigate the problem, and have been told repeatedly that there is no electrical problem with the car. I visited superior honda recently in orangeburg south carolina. The service department manager there told me that in recent months, he was aware of at least one cr-v owner and several owners of civics who have come back and forth to their dealership because of similar problems with headlights blowing out. Hendricks honda advised against contacting the corporation and said it would likely refer the matter back to them. I commute to work 120 miles round trip daily. I have been stopped on numerous occasions by police officers and highway patrolmen regarding one of my headlights being out. I now carry copies of the service requests showing that I reported the problem with the headlights during my visits to the dealership. I show these to the office as proof that the problem is recurring and I have been attempting to resolve it. I have been unable to get the service department at the dealership where I purchased the car to take the issue seriously and/or to try to determine the source of the problem. I have check to see if there are any recalls related to this problem, or any service bulletins, and have found none. Post script: there are numerous "incident dates". The one listed is the most recent.
2006 Honda CR-V electrical complaints
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I have a 2006 honda crv which has a light that keeps coming on telling me that the rear door is open. It is not. The biggest problem is really a safety and security problem because when this light is on, the car cannot be locked. I have had this problem corrected twice , the last time being nov. 15th 2007. I am ready to take it back because now it comes on and pretty much stays on all the time.
The front acc adaptor in my 2006 cr-v constantly blew fuses. I requested service on my car three times, and all three times the fuses were only replaced. No one seemed to know the cause of the surge. I finally took the car back again in november 2006 and told them to find the problem, not just replace the fuse. The housing of the acc adaptor had faulty connections that caused both contacts to touch and thus blow the fuses. The manager of the maintenance department gave me a printout explaining that the company had knowledge of the defect since march of 2006 but did not wish to do a recall due to the limited affect the surges had on the operation of the car overall. I personally travel extensively with my job and use my acc adaptor daily. This specific defect caused me to be unable to charge my phone while away from my home on business. The phone died and I was left without a way to contact anyone. It would have been great for honda to publish this defect in the acc adaptor housing to all owners of 2006 cr-vs.
Non-driving failure: at night, when opening car the door, meter needles keep shaking regardless if key is in or out. In-driving failure: for each day first driving, all meter needles suddenly point at 0-position, and brake & maintenance light on and display keeps flashing, regardless if car is moving or at a stop, or fuel tank is full. Such problem keeps several minutes and automatically goes away. The failure is repeated for the first driving of each driving day. Dealer said they do not know the root cause but saw one similar case a few months ago and after replacing the entire meter panel the customer never came back. Dealer mentioned that early build of 2006 honda cr-vs have such problem and american honda already knew the problem. But american honda claimed to the customer that it does not know such failure. Though not knowing the root cause, american honda instructed dealer to replace entire meter panel, the car is still in repair as of 6/22/2006. We found odi id #10156440 has similarity.
Electrical problem. From the first morning after I purchased vehicle until warmer weather came. In cold weather, below 34 degrees, even before key is placed in ignition, the speedometer is twitching showing electrical current going through. Once key is placed in ignition, for the first 3-8 minutes, the electrical system does not work. Trip meter is reset, inside dashboard panel has a mind of it's own. Dealer has so far replaced the fuse box and the electrical cluster. They don't know what to do so have called american honda to take over.
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