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2010 Honda CR-V Ex - Vibrate/Rumble at 1500 RPM
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My brand new 2010 CR-v EX rumble/virbate at 1500 rpm. I love the car, but the rumbling drives me crazy. I contacted the dealer and the American Honda. They could not help me to fix this issue. Dealer says "Its the characteristic of the car". How can annoying rumbling, vibration can be a characteristic of the car? Does any one have the same issue with their new 2010 cr-v?
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Your complaint is not uncommon. What's reasonable and what's not varies with each driver. I assume the dealer says everything's within normal operating parameters? Try another dealer, I guess.
I tried another dealer. He mentioned that I am not the first one to complain about this issue. Even they tried to fix one of the CR-V's as per American Honda's advise.
Since the engine is at this low RPM, were you driving in 25-35mph zone when this is happening?
I wonder if the transmission box is going up and down a gear whenever you step on the gas pedal?
When the gear box is going up or down, you will have a feel of vibrate or rumble. It is normal unless you have a CVT.
In 5th gear? If so, that's just about the point in which the engine will lug. Before the pressure to increase mileage the shift point would have been a couple hundred RPMs higher. My CR-V gives signs of lugging at 1500 RPMs in 5th, especially if on even a slight incline.
I wouldn't call my experience a rumble. But you've got plenty of company who would.
Honda probably should have used a active noise canceling system like they use on the Odyssey, Accord V6 and Pilot taht deavctivate cylinders and GM uses on the Equinox/Terrain, for what I suspect is the same problem. Tuning engine mounts to work at a wide range of RPM's is chllenging...especially lower RPM's which tend to have larger amplitudes and are closer to the 2nd and 3rd order resonant frequencies of the chassis and interior components.
As the car breaks-in and the engine loosens up, it will get less noticeable.
Most 4 cylinder vehciles have similar issues. Our Nissna Altima "hunts" for the right CVT ratio at 35-40mph that causing an intermittent surging or sorts as it alternates between 2 gear ratios. even though it's a CVT, it's does not have infinite ratios, it's something like 300 predefined pulley positions.
Also, I complained of the very harsh ride. They re-balanced the wheels and said that the other items are just normal for this vehicle.. Their work today didn't change a thing....I am really disappointed in this vehicle....I traded in a 6 yr old Saturn with 115K miles that didn't have these issues....wish I had it back!!
I went back to the dealer and had their ace service tech ride with me to demonstrate the noise to which he acknowleged hearing as well. He said I was the first to notice this as they have had no complaints about this. He agreed that the engine was laboring at this speed and is so to get the gas mileage up by putting it in 5th gear as soon as possible. They do not have any TSB's related to this problem as of yet. I requested that I test drive another new one to see if it exhibited the same problem and it indeed did. I will live with the problem as is since overall the car is very nice.
What changed was this. The car was driven in some mud and needed to get the under carriage power washed and wheels balanced. After that the car has not been the same. I needed to get a TSB 10-077 done since the engine was very sluggish (didn't feel that way before, but the tsb fixed that problem), but I am still experiencing much more vibration and rumbling than before. The car just doesn't seem the same. It's pretty upsetting that this car drove like a dream until now. I am pretty ocd when it comes to noise from my cars so this bothers me every time I get into it.
I do remember test driving a crv back in 09 and thought the car felt the same way which shyed me away from it.