Honda owners?

mercymom
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:24:42 +0000

We are a Honda family and have had great luck with them; this after a terrible experience with a Ford Windstar. Talk about transmission problems! The Windstar drove like a dream, but after 60k the transmission went out (replaced under warranty), the at 65k the gaskets blew, but were paid for by a recall, then at 85k the transmission went out again (another paid for by a technicality) and at 116k there was a fluid leak where they only needed to put in a new plastic cap that cost $1.00, but it rqd taking out the entire engine to replace the cap, so it was going to cost $1,000 to replace a cap! We traded it for an Odyssey.

We also own two CRVs. The one the kids share was in a 5 car pile up (caused by a guy on a cell phone) and the car was pancaked with my two Ds inside. The girls were fine, no injuries and the insurance refused to total the CRV cause it was worth more than we paid for it new (!) so the math for totaling didn’t work out. It was 8 weeks to repair and after looked like new and drove like new - still does. You would never know that car had ever been wrecked and it’s now almost 6 years old. So I’m sold on Hondas.

fwiw - we origlly decided on getting a CRV when a good friend was in an accident that did total her year old car (must have been really bad based on our experience) and the friend walked away w/o a scratch. She got a brand new CRV with the insurance and still drives it almost 10 years later.