Honda CR-V, 56 plate, high mileage - yes or no?

walwyn1978

Long time lurker, but have signed up to get some opinions.


We're in the process of adopting two children (currently only me and Mrs Walwyn1978 in the household) and we're conscious that our current car, a Citroen C3 (2012) is potentially rather small in boot space.


We've been offered a '56 plate (post-facelift) Honda CRV from a friend. It's been owned by him from new. He works in freight distribution, managing a fleet of vans and trucks. After the normal warranty on his CRV expired he had it serviced by his company mechanics every six months (his job involves a lot of motorway miles). It's a 2.2 diesel.


Positives: It's being offered to us extremely cheap, less than we can get selling the Citroen so we'll have money to get other necessary things. They didn't have DPF's so there won't be hidden nasties with that in a year or so.


Negatives: It has done 170k.


Is that too much? Should we look elsewhere, or, as I'm hoping, are Honda's of that age and model built to last?



Edit: I'm also aware that by going from a newer car to an older car, I'm at the risk of incurring higher maintenance bills in the long term. Again, is the age of this car against it and should I lok for something newer?

Thanks all.

Herzlos

If it's mostly motorway miles, has been properly serviced & looked after and seems to be in decent condition then it's probably fine. I take it that it's priced appropriately?

walwyn1978

Herzlos wrote: »

If it's mostly motorway miles, has been properly serviced & looked after and seems to be in decent condition then it's probably fine. I take it that it's priced appropriately?

To help us out, he's saying 4k, which I think is slightly under what it should be normally for private sale

Marktheshark

Manual or Auto and if its manual has it had the DMF Flywheel replaced at any time, if not budget for one very soon.

walwyn1978

Marktheshark wrote: »

Manual or Auto and if its manual has it had the DMF Flywheel replaced at any time, if not budget for one very soon.

Manual.


I'll check, thanks.

Foxy-Stoat_3

Look on the autotrader....you can pick these up for £3500 with 120K on the clock. Theres one on there with 180K for less than £2,000.

Its over priced for a quick sale I think although the main positive is that you know and trust the seller, I dont think he is doing you main favours with the price.

walwyn1978

Fair comment, although all those all appear to be pre-facelift, not that it probably makes any difference to the mechanicals.

walwyn1978

More feedback in response to the above. Thank you for advice so far.

DMF flywheel and clutch has been replaced in the last 14 months so hopefully not an immediate issue.

Price has now come down to 3k.

Anything further I should check or does this seem ok?

Many thanks.

s_b

its still 9 years old have a pre purchase inspection carried out if only by having a local garage spend an hour on it

gzoom

We recently sold our old 2.2 CDTI Civic. It had done 90K and in our ownership didn't develop a single mechanical fault. We only sold it because my wife wanted something newer. It was a great little car, returned a genuine 50mpg, decent enough power, and really cheap to run.

Clutch main weakness, but if that's been done I think your be fine. Our Civic felt like it could have done another 90k with no issues. But 170k is big miles, make sure the turbo isn't about to go....No idea how long they last on the 2.2 engine, but no turbo lasts forever.

bigjl

Foxy-Stoat wrote: »

Look on the autotrader....you can pick these up for £3500 with 120K on the clock. Theres one on there with 180K for less than £2,000.

Its over priced for a quick sale I think although the main positive is that you know and trust the seller, I dont think he is doing you main favours with the price.

Facelift model is worth significantly more than a pre facelift.