Very leggy CR-V, to buy or not to buy?
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Good morning Honda folk
I'm going to look at a 2006 CR-V today. It's going for a song (under £2.5k), but has 139,000 miles on it, which strIkes one as a LOT.
Does anyone here have a CR-V (or perhaps more likely did your mum, I know, I know), and can attest to its ability to do big miles? Or fell apart at 40k, etc etc.
Words of wisdom VERY gratefully received.
I'm going to look at a 2006 CR-V today. It's going for a song (under £2.5k), but has 139,000 miles on it, which strIkes one as a LOT.
Does anyone here have a CR-V (or perhaps more likely did your mum, I know, I know), and can attest to its ability to do big miles? Or fell apart at 40k, etc etc.
Words of wisdom VERY gratefully received.
We bought a 2004 CR-V last year - a special edition Premiere model and we love it! It was to replace a 3 year old Peugeot Partner Tepee and this Honda is streets ahead in quality.
Before we took the plunge, I noted virtually every reg number of the CR-V's we saw anywhere (yes, I have an anorak!!)
Back at home, I checked to see what each vehicle MOT history had to say. NONE of them had ever failed with serious corrosion on chassis members, sills or anything close to suspension mounts. Many very high mileage (some well over 200k) had only ever failed on the usual stupid stuff like wipers, tyres, chipped screens - why do folk take cars for MOT with silly faults?
One common fault seems to be anti roll bar links, which are cheap DIY items anyway.
We've had lots of Hondas over the years, cars and bikes and the quality always shines through.
Ian
Before we took the plunge, I noted virtually every reg number of the CR-V's we saw anywhere (yes, I have an anorak!!)
Back at home, I checked to see what each vehicle MOT history had to say. NONE of them had ever failed with serious corrosion on chassis members, sills or anything close to suspension mounts. Many very high mileage (some well over 200k) had only ever failed on the usual stupid stuff like wipers, tyres, chipped screens - why do folk take cars for MOT with silly faults?
One common fault seems to be anti roll bar links, which are cheap DIY items anyway.
We've had lots of Hondas over the years, cars and bikes and the quality always shines through.
Ian
Edited by Orcadian on Wednesday 8th February 18:59
Orcadian said:
Many very high mileage (some well over 200k) had only ever failed on the usual stupid stuff like wipers, tyres chipped screens - why do folk take cars for MOT with silly faults?
Because it's a free retest.Because the garage are going to be doing some work anyway.
Because owners don't know how/can't be bothered to check tyres, wipers, whatever.
Because if the thing throws a major wobbly and needs welding, new brake pipes, suspension, discs, anything else then they can throw it away without having put a new tyre on it 2 weeks before.
I know what I'm doing but I've had a car fail a test for cracked tyre sidewalls.
Assuming all mk2's are the same layout, the rear seats slide quite a way forward in increments to alter boot space. There is also a big space under the picnic table boot floor, if that was still on the 2006. The rear seats also have a few positions of recline and that can be reduced to increase space.
Ian
Ian
Fully agree with Paul789, after driving our almost new Peugeot for nearly 3 years with suspension from a 1930's horse drawn cart and REAR tyres lasting a very careful 9000 miles, the CR-V is an absolute delight - I really wish we had missed out that step from our Mk2 Berlingo Van and gone straight to this breath of fresh air. It just feels 'right' in every respect.
Ours is a low mileage one previous owner fully loaded car and many folk who do not really know different models have remarked that it looks a couple of years old, although it does have an N reg plate I've used for years on many vehicles.
Ian
Ours is a low mileage one previous owner fully loaded car and many folk who do not really know different models have remarked that it looks a couple of years old, although it does have an N reg plate I've used for years on many vehicles.
Ian
Orcadian said:
Assuming all mk2's are the same layout, the rear seats slide quite a way forward in increments to alter boot space. There is also a big space under the picnic table boot floor, if that was still on the 2006. The rear seats also have a few positions of recline and that can be reduced to increase space.
Ian
Ah didn't know that about the sliding rear seats, thank you. Ian
Picnic table boot floor ?!
Yes, when you lift the boot carpet, there is a handle to lift the panel out of the boot floor which covers a very large space where the spare wheel would have been. This boot floor piece has fold down legs to make a picnic table. I hope they hadn't discontinued that feature on 2006 models now I've got you interested!
Ian
Btw, the previous owner had the car 12 years and didn't know it was there!
Ian
Btw, the previous owner had the car 12 years and didn't know it was there!
Deisel Weisel said:
Orcadian said:
which covers a very large space where the spare wheel would have been.
Is it large enough to store the full sized spare? For me, the spare hanging off the rear door, looks ugly. Gassing Station | Honda | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff