Accelerator Stuck problems of the 2003 Honda CR-V

Two problems related to accelerator stuck have been reported for the 2003 Honda CR-V. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2003 Honda CR-V based on all problems reported for the 2003 CR-V.

1 Accelerator Stuck problem

Failure Date: 12/18/2015

On December 18 my youngest daughter was returning from a babbysitting job. . Her 2003 crv accelerator stuck open . . For 5 to 7 miles she pressed on brakes as car was accelerating over 100 mph. . She managed to slow to 60 and engage neutral while car still revving. . And shut off vehicle. . No dash or warning lights. . The car is now at a Honda dealership in chattanooga. . The dealer has pics of what happened and brakes were fried as they were new. . Im 2 1/2 weekks waiting on a reply or investigation from Honda . . Im out a car and my daughter needs to get to college. . She was on a long stretch of highway at incident. Which is what likely saved her by the grace of god. . Or could have been serious injury or death.

2 Accelerator Stuck problem

Failure Date: 12/04/2013

My wife was accelerating her 2003 Honda Cr-v onto the massachusetts turnpike from the on-ramp, but the car continued to accelerate well above normal highway speed. The brake only slowed it partially, so she tried tapping the accelerator which released. Alarmed by this she got it serviced where mechanic blamed the problem on buildup of deposits on the throttle plate, which they cleaned, and did other preventive maintenance. Several weeks later I was leaving the supermarket on an very cold day of about 10f. I started the car in park, at which point the throttle went to maximum by itself, at very high revs. Fortunately it was still in park. I tried all kinds of tapping on and around the accelerator. I inspected the accelerator area for a stuck floor mat or a foreign object, but found nothing. I turned the car off, but when I turned it on, it continued to rev as if floored. The second time I turned it off and on, it returned to normal operation. It drove normally for the next few weeks. Finally, my wife was driving on a busy divided highway with many businesses when the accelerator stuck open again. The car sped up to dangerous speed, and stomping on the brake only partly slowed it. She shifted into low gear which actually made it speed up. She was approaching a traffic light with stopped cars. Not wanting to hit a column of stopped cars, she steered into a thick snowbank by the side of the road, hoping to stop it non-destructively. But the Honda did not stop until it hit a telephone pole very hard, with airbag deployment and total vehicle loss. She escaped with only minor bruises.


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