Honda Car Forum

I am saving to purchase a car on my own and really like the versitility that is offered with a cuv. The car that properly fits my budget and seems to best suite me is the Honda CR-V around a 1996-2000 model ($4000 price range or lower). I would love to hear about your opinions and experiences with this car. What do you like about it? What don't you like? Do you think this car is a good fit for a first car? How reliable is it? Best Answer goes to answer with best/most opinons/info! Thanks!

Its a Honda, You cant go wrong. Make sure it has been maintained and it will go 300000+miles for you.

I own a 2000 ex AWD, it's fantastic in the winter, it will plow through any amount of snow and it's a solid well put together little truck-let. If you can afford it, the 1999-2001 model years had a slight HP increase. Very reliable, all I've done is routine maintenance, an upper ball-joint on one side and a pair of sway bar links up front, for this I blame crappy Toronto streets as I had the same things go on my last vehicle. Don't forget to get all service records, it has a timing belt which is a$700 service to do including tensioner and water pump. This is something you can't ignore and if it's not done at this point it is over due. Regular valve adjustments are important on this vehicle and not expensive to do, something easily done when the Timing Belt is done.