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I guess the government has no tracking device to determine which cars have had work done, or if they do, they aren't enforcing the law.
Yes, it's a poor design and evidently the problem is chronic, but the warranty doesn't extend as long as some owners think it should.
I have a 2000 CR-V with a disintegrated AC compressor. It's been that way for about 60K miles and in the Summer it's hot. I cut off the drive belt when it locked up and I live with it. It stinks and I won't buy another Honda, but whoop, there it is. Life is tough.
The AC compressor disintegrated at about 90K miles, the rear window lifters don't lift anymore, the dash clock quit about 10 years ago, the hood and fenders are rusting a little, and the cat converter separated from the resonator when the bolts dissolved over 13 years of driving in Cincinnati salted winters. The plugs foul regularly because of those stupid tubes and gaskets funnelling oil directly onto them.
And the OBD connector is on the passenger side. Arrgh.
Other than that, it's a pretty good car.
says re: payment- "It cannot yet be predicted. The Court will hold a final approval hearing on March 26, 2012 to decide whether to approve the settlement. If the settlement is approved, the payment of benefits to settlement class members who submit valid claims will be made within 45 days from the deadline for filing claims, assuming no appeals have been filed. In the event there are appeals filed, this would delay the process of payment of the claims." I can't even claim because work not "performed at an authorized Honda Dealership." "Performed" is right- what a circus.
135,000 miles?? Nine years?? Hey, that's a lot of miles and a lot of years!
When this first came to light, before I retired, I asked our parts guys to check and see how many CRV compressors we had sold and the number was almost zero and no greater than any other Honda model.
Our 2003 with 62,000 miles is doing just fine but if it broke tomorrow I would consider it just "one of those things" that can happen on a nine year old car.
Yes, I'm in Seattle and temps don't get that high here. I understand this.
" I won't buy another Honda"...I understand your frustration but ALL cars can have problems of one kind or another.
AC goes out
Mechanic, private, says= total replacement BUT talk to honda
Look on Emunds
Lots of people call this a NON recall but event Honda is aware of .
Some guy posts how to get Honda to pay
I do what he says
Honda replaces whole thing free because it is a hidden recalll
3000K saved-complete replacement
This was 2-4 years ago so post may be hard to find
Good luck but don't give up or pay the money!!!
Best of luck
Still driving my 2002 crv with 140k miles, no other ac problems to date. Also own two other later model accords. Same dealer says the time has long passed for any Honda kick-in money other than the current class action suit. Honda Corp. has successfully managed to keep this well known dealer fact out of the main stream news and now that the cars are so old with high mileage it would not cause a public relations nightmare anyway.
tjx, "Honda CR-V AC Compressor Problems" #255, 6 Sep 2006 6:27 pm
lawsuit but cannot locate the compressor part#. Can you tell me what Part# you used?
Good Luck
Who's with me?! I'm in the DC area, so my message should reach a few people.
Yes, the whole situation stinks, but the warranty was expired and I had not purchased any extended protection. That's my problem, not Honda's.
Yes, their design was awful. Yes, it's unfair. No, I probably won't buy another one.
Question: Where can I get the form for the lawsuit? (I tried doing a search but got nowhere.)
I told the dealer to cut off the belt. 5 years ago. The money we've saved in gas mileage will probably pay for the repair, if I ever decide to fix it.
If this thread had the ability to poll, I would be tempted to ask a poll of CRV owners who both have had premature failures and those who haven't, if there is some sort of theme regarding how each uses their car. I have learned in the past few years only, that regular use even if only for 10 minutes daily, will help keep the system internals not only lubed, (there is a lubricating oil in the freon) but help the seals keep their resiliency and ability to seal the full quantity of gas in the system thereby prolonging the need for a top-up charge of freon.
The other thing, is, if you find your A/C has lost a good portion of its cooling ability, but does still cool somewhat, you have three choices.
Remove the fuse that cycles the compressor clutch. This will ensure you don't have compressor jam and put you on the side of the road in heavy traffic. It also may help keep system from having as many metal bits circulating in the entire system if the compressor had started to self-destruct and was the cause of diminished cooling due to freon loss etc. As these bits accumulate (usually at the condenser or later at the expansion valve) it reduces ability for condenser to bring the hot liquified gas having left the compressor, to ambient temps. This would create extra heat and pressure at the compressor which accelerates the compressor's demise. Or will trigger either high and low pressure switches that cuts current to compressor clutch to preserve the compressor. I suspect that the reason some compressors blow up and seize is because of a faulty low pressure switch (the one between the evaporator and the compressor) which allows it to run gas and oil starved. You can prolong the life of your compressor by keeping area in front of condenser clear of bugs etc. Once or twice a year I invest 30 min to carefully debug my compressor with a tiny pick so that it can get as much air as possible in to it. If you opt to do this, the fins are extremely prone to injury and requires a gentle, steady hand, hooking bugs and pulling straight out from between the fins.
Also, aways ensure the fans come on to pull air through it when A/C is on.
I do not like the stock position of the license plate as it hinders clean air to the condenser on those states that require a front plate.
Second choice is test to see if a recharge will restore cooling ability, but keep in mind this choice has no guarantee that by doing this you will avoid the results of the first choice.
Sending now due to thunder storm.
All that is accurate gimmestdtranny, but every time the driver operates the defroster in the cooler months, the driver operates the a/c compressor, perhaps unbeknownst to themself. Yes, the compressor runs in the winter months, too. So, with weather that might cause the driver to turn on the a/c or weather that might cause the driver to turn on the defroster, between these two the proper lubrication necessary should be satisfied for compressor longlife and seal elasticity and longlife. Cheers!
My 2003 CRV EX is within 300 miles of having 250,000 miles. I just figured out that the a/c has gone-out four times in the past. Now, it has suddenly started making a weird whinning noice each time I turn it on. (It also makes this noice when I turn on the defroster, because the defroster switch turns on the compressor. (In the past, the a/c has simply stopped.)
Anyway, if it's another "Black Death," than this will make it a precise 'once per 50,000 mile' event.
Here's the deal. I've never had a car/truck last nearly so many miles. So overall, I forgive Honda, and I consider it the best car deal I've ever had.
Thanks, Celeste
> With all due respect, when something breaks at 100K miles Honda
> cannot be reasonably expected to make it better. My AC compressor
> locked up on my 2000 CR-V at 105K: the dealer wanted 3K in Florida to
> make everything better. I told them to cut off the belt (charged me $90
> for that 'service') and I've been driving it that way ever since, another
> 60K miles.
>
> Yes, the whole situation stinks, but the warranty was expired and I
> had not purchased any extended protection. That's my problem, not > > > Honda's.
Sorry Jenny. Ordinarily, you would be right. However when a part this expensive fails for so many people, so pervasively, it IS the manufacturers fault. CRV's can go over 250,000 miles, so having a $5000-$6000 component fail at just over 100K like this on so many customer's cars is not acceptable. That is why a class action lawsuit is a good idea. It will succeed. In fact Honda will probably solve the problem before it even gets into court.
Cars today all go over 1000K miles, especially brands like Honda. 100K is no longer the magic "dead car" mark for most cars.