2015 Honda CR-V · symptom sheet
Steering wheel shakes or the "death wobble"
- 31owner reports
- 3,450median miles
- 0involved a crash
Newest report Dec 1, 2023 · checked Oct 2, 2026
45 of the 667 complaints on this car are about the steering system. 31 of those describe death wobble.
Tick what matches of 31 reports
Death wobble on other CR-V years
No other CR-V model year has enough reports of death wobble for a sheet of its own. See every CR-V year.
What this problem usually is
This is the violent one. Owners describe the steering wheel shaking hard at highway speed, often right after the front end hits a bump or an expansion joint, and it keeps going until they slow way down. Six in ten complaints in this group use the word wobble, and plenty of owners call it the "death wobble."
What got replaced
Few of these reports name the part that was replaced.
Recalls and investigations
No recall on the steering system covers the 2015 model year as of Oct 2, 2026.
NHTSA investigations into the steering system on the CR-V
Momentary increased steering effort. Closed jan 28, 2025, led to recall 24V-744.
None of these investigations covers the 2015 model year.
When it happens
The middle half of failures fell between 1,900 and 11,800 miles, from the 17 reports that gave a mileage.
Is this a known problem?
The manufacturer has sent NHTSA 1 service bulletin or notice for the 2015 Honda CR-V that deal with this problem. Newest first.
Federal rules make a manufacturer send NHTSA a copy of any notice about a defect that goes to more than one dealer or owner. Most of these are service bulletins, the repair instructions manufacturers send to dealers. NHTSA generally leaves safety recall bulletins out of this file, and recalls are listed separately.
On December 2, 2015, Honda issued Service Bulletin 15-046 "Vibration While Driving and/or Stopped in Gear." This Service Bulletin and the product enhancements provided therein were intended to address complaints by some 2015 CR-V customers that they were ...
What owners wrote
No report on this problem is short enough to quote in full.
Should you keep driving it?
This page can't tell you that. 0 of 31 reports involved a crash. Owners who file are the ones who had a bad experience, and nobody checks their reports. If the problem affects steering, braking, power or a fire risk, treat it as a safety fault and have it inspected before a long or high-speed drive.
File your own report with NHTSA. Complaint counts are how a problem gets an investigation. How reports land on this sheet.
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