According to this newsgroup thread, the anti-lock brakes on the Honda
CR-V 2002 EX were defective:

http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=w3rOa.3410%24H17.2079%40sccrnsc02&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26group%3Drec.autos.makers.honda

I'm thinking about buying a Honda Civic EX 2002 or 2003, which would
come with ABS. Is there any information out there as to whether the
Honda ABS issue was limited to CR-Vs, or whether other models also had
problems? Also, I'd like to know how common the problem is.