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Hi everyone!
I have a 2018 CR-V that’s about to turn a year old in a couple of weeks, and I was wondering if some of your older 2017/18 CR-V owners or maybe some of the newer 2018/19 owners have noticed any annoying rattles throughout the cabin? For the noises I’ve been hearing in mine I really haven’t found anything on anywhere online, so I wanted to start a conversation to see if my problems are just exclusive to my CR-V.
That being said, the first and most prominent one I had was the passenger side glove box rattling. I found out that due to the way that it latches (prongs protruding out on both right and left sides of the glove box), the space that was left in between where the prongs are and where it latches was causing a slight rattle. I fixed it by putting some velcro within where the prongs latch to close the glove box to try and minimize the movement, and so far it’s working pretty well (fingers crossed!).
The next couple rattles were fairly recent. About a month ago something was rattling from the trunk, and I found that one of the plastic covers on the tailgate portion that pops out so you can access the outside mechanical latch mechanism was loose. I don’t know when/how it got loose, but right now I have it secured with some blue tape; so if anyone has had/has a similar problem and has found a solution, please let me know, because I don’t want to have to keep tape on there forever.
The next fairly recent one (which I actually only found today after about a month or torment) was a rattle coming from the sunroof area. It only happened intermittently- hence why it took me so long- but nevertheless it annoys the heck out of me. I think this is a common problem for Hondas with sunroofs (found people were have similar problems on earlier model Pilots and Accords with a sunroof), but I have yet to find the actual source of the rattling, so wanted to see if anyone else had the same problem/has had it fixed? If you tap your headliner gently enough to simulate a bump just in between the rear left seat and the drivers seat, you should be able to hear it when not moving (at least that’s how I found it).
Thank you in advance for your input, and Happy Holidays!
~PS~
So with all that being said, I needed to vent a little and have to say that I’m extremely disappointed in the build quality of this car. Before this I had a 2003 Toyota Camry SE that has about 200k more miles than my CR-V right now and never really had any rattling problems (except the passenger glove box), even when I stopped driving it at 14 years as my DD and got the CR-V. Not only that, though, but with the extremely big engine problem (that shall not be named), I fear that Hondas are not as reliable as people make them out to be, especially after these quality issues that I don’t even experience in my 16 year old Camry.
I must admit though- as much as I still love my CR-V despite its flaws- the all-new 2019 Toyota RAV4 is looking pretty nice ATM (even though it is a tad bit slower than the CR-V :/ )
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I have a 2018 CR-V that’s about to turn a year old in a couple of weeks, and I was wondering if some of your older 2017/18 CR-V owners or maybe some of the newer 2018/19 owners have noticed any annoying rattles throughout the cabin? For the noises I’ve been hearing in mine I really haven’t found anything on anywhere online, so I wanted to start a conversation to see if my problems are just exclusive to my CR-V.
That being said, the first and most prominent one I had was the passenger side glove box rattling. I found out that due to the way that it latches (prongs protruding out on both right and left sides of the glove box), the space that was left in between where the prongs are and where it latches was causing a slight rattle. I fixed it by putting some velcro within where the prongs latch to close the glove box to try and minimize the movement, and so far it’s working pretty well (fingers crossed!).
The next couple rattles were fairly recent. About a month ago something was rattling from the trunk, and I found that one of the plastic covers on the tailgate portion that pops out so you can access the outside mechanical latch mechanism was loose. I don’t know when/how it got loose, but right now I have it secured with some blue tape; so if anyone has had/has a similar problem and has found a solution, please let me know, because I don’t want to have to keep tape on there forever.
The next fairly recent one (which I actually only found today after about a month or torment) was a rattle coming from the sunroof area. It only happened intermittently- hence why it took me so long- but nevertheless it annoys the heck out of me. I think this is a common problem for Hondas with sunroofs (found people were have similar problems on earlier model Pilots and Accords with a sunroof), but I have yet to find the actual source of the rattling, so wanted to see if anyone else had the same problem/has had it fixed? If you tap your headliner gently enough to simulate a bump just in between the rear left seat and the drivers seat, you should be able to hear it when not moving (at least that’s how I found it).
Thank you in advance for your input, and Happy Holidays!
~PS~
So with all that being said, I needed to vent a little and have to say that I’m extremely disappointed in the build quality of this car. Before this I had a 2003 Toyota Camry SE that has about 200k more miles than my CR-V right now and never really had any rattling problems (except the passenger glove box), even when I stopped driving it at 14 years as my DD and got the CR-V. Not only that, though, but with the extremely big engine problem (that shall not be named), I fear that Hondas are not as reliable as people make them out to be, especially after these quality issues that I don’t even experience in my 16 year old Camry.
I must admit though- as much as I still love my CR-V despite its flaws- the all-new 2019 Toyota RAV4 is looking pretty nice ATM (even though it is a tad bit slower than the CR-V :/ )
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