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Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke
My first Honda, I drove for 210,000 miles and then gave it to my son, who put another 100,000 miles on it, and got a good price when he sold it because it was still running,
My cars get their scheduled maintenance. That car needed new springs when it got to 200,000 miles and I can't remember any other parts ever needing replacing. It just ran and ran, got 52 mpg, and could carry two adults and 5 German shepherd dogs and fully loaded with camping equipment and still go like a scalded cat.
It had a stick, not an automatic transmission, if that makes a difference.
I wouldn't hesitate over a Honda with 240,000 if it had been well maintained and wasn't currently showing any mechanical problems.
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Wow, we both have similar stories. I’ve owned one Honda, a 2001 CRV that I bought new that year. Like yours, mine was a 5-speed manual too (it wasn’t easy finding a manual when I was shopping for it). I put 215,000 trouble-free miles, except for some self-inflicted damage that I’d cause every now and then because I would take it offroad and I was rough on her. The original clutch lasted over 200,000 miles.
Just routine maintenance and, of course, regular oil changes.
And then my son took it over and this is where our stories diverge — he put several thousand more miles but he didn’t keep up with the maintenance. The timing chain finally broke on him. That broke my heart, it was a great car.
Anyway now I drive a Jeep and that’s a different story, reliability-wise.
But that CRV was rock solid when I was done with my turn. It could have run hundreds of thousands of miles more, but of course the frequency of maintenance would have to increase over that time.