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Cars: 2015

How soon are you moving? Consider whether you need the small bit of extra clearance or cargo capacity of a small suv vs an accord. SUVs are a significantly higher margin meaning you pay more per unit car.

Otherwise it's a fine vehicle. You really can't go wrong with Toyota or Honda. The only reason I'd go with a Toyota moving forward over a Honda or Acura is the interference engine. That's a guaranteed $2k (maybe significantly more now) maintenance bill at 100,000 miles.
 
Kepler said:
I'm buying a used Honda CR V this weekend, change my mind.
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I have a 17 EX-L and an 18 EX, both purchased used. Aside from the hitch in the infotainment system, I like the cars. The hitch is that they’re just finicky. My 17’s screen will go black sometimes while doing nothing more than playing audio through my phone. It shouldn’t do that, but that’s its hitch. The 18 is better than that, just one day it wouldn’t display anything at all. I restarted the car and the display worked without issue.

Because they have CVT transmissions, make sure to get the transmission fluid changed every 30k. Officially, Honda says the fluid should last 90k miles, but CVTs should get more love than older generations of transmissions.

something people don’t like is the electric parking brake. My 17 auto-engages when I dirty off the engine, but my 18 doesn’t. I prefer the auto-engaged version because it relieves stress on the transmission when parked.
 
St. Clown said:
I have a 17 EX-L and an 18 EX, both purchased used. Aside from the hitch in the infotainment system, I like the cars. The hitch is that they’re just finicky. My 17’s screen will go black sometimes while doing nothing more than playing audio through my phone. It shouldn’t do that, but that’s its hitch. The 18 is better than that, just one day it wouldn’t display anything at all. I restarted the car and the display worked without issue.

Because they have CVT transmissions, make sure to get the transmission fluid changed every 30k. Officially, Honda says the fluid should last 90k miles, but CVTs should get more love than older generations of transmissions.

something people don’t like is the electric parking brake. My 17 auto-engages when I dirty off the engine, but my 18 doesn’t. I prefer the auto-engaged version because it relieves stress on the transmission when parked.
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Funny you mention the cvt. I have a 2017 forester and just made appointment to get it flushed since it’s at 80k now
 
We went with New over Used, put $10k down, got $8k trade in for my beat up 2016 Camry hooptie, argued the jackals down, eschewed the undercoating, and got out of there with a 2024 CR-V EX and a $17k 2-year loan at 3.9%. $700 total interest for the use of $17,000 in an economy with a 3.1% interest rate seems... pretty reasonable.

More importantly, I won the credit check, 874 to Dr. Mrs.' ghetto 862. (TIL FICO Auto Score goes to 900.)
 
Bought my 2007 Honda Civic in 2020 with 140,000 miles.

I am pleasantly surprised the car is still going at 272,000, and that I've only had to do some wear and tear maintenance on it thus far.
 
MissThundercat said:
Bought my 2007 Honda Civic in 2020 with 140,000 miles.

I am pleasantly surprised the car is still going at 272,000, and that I've only had to do some wear and tear maintenance on it thus far.
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You've driven 132,000 miles in 4 years? You nearly doubled the previous 12 or so. :D :eek:
 
My wife just had the original tires replaced on her 2015 Civic. She has 30k miles on it in 9 years.

Stupidly I had been checking them religiously to make sure there was plenty of tread. There was. But the mechanic told me the tires had decomposed so badly she was lucky they didn't just blow out. I simply didn't know better.

OTOH I doubt she's been over 30 MPH in that car... but still, it's bad when a horse throws you and that's only 20-something.
 
Kepler said:
My wife just had the original tires replaced on her 2015 Civic. She has 30k miles on it in 9 years.

Stupidly I had been checking them religiously to make sure there was plenty of tread. There was. But the mechanic told me the tires had decomposed so badly she was lucky they didn't just blow out. I simply didn't know better.

OTOH I doubt she's been over 30 MPH in that car... but still, it's bad when a horse throws you and that's only 20-something.
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When you drive such limited miles at such low speeds, do you even have to rotate? If you want to get 20 years out of them, I guess.
 
Kepler said:
My wife just had the original tires replaced on her 2015 Civic. She has 30k miles on it in 9 years.

Stupidly I had been checking them religiously to make sure there was plenty of tread. There was. But the mechanic told me the tires had decomposed so badly she was lucky they didn't just blow out. I simply didn't know better.

OTOH I doubt she's been over 30 MPH in that car... but still, it's bad when a horse throws you and that's only 20-something.
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Much past 5 years, the risk goes up pretty fast. I know on our trailer, when we get to year 5, I will replace the tires regardless how they look.
 
Kepler said:
My wife just had the original tires replaced on her 2015 Civic. She has 30k miles on it in 9 years.

Stupidly I had been checking them religiously to make sure there was plenty of tread. There was. But the mechanic told me the tires had decomposed so badly she was lucky they didn't just blow out. I simply didn't know better.

OTOH I doubt she's been over 30 MPH in that car... but still, it's bad when a horse throws you and that's only 20-something.
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I used to work at shot as a tire installer during college. Rubber rot is real…even if they’re not all rubber. We would see tires that looked like they were about to crumble even if they still had half their tread life remaining.
 
Kepler said:
My wife just had the original tires replaced on her 2015 Civic. She has 30k miles on it in 9 years.

Stupidly I had been checking them religiously to make sure there was plenty of tread. There was. But the mechanic told me the tires had decomposed so badly she was lucky they didn't just blow out. I simply didn't know better.

OTOH I doubt she's been over 30 MPH in that car... but still, it's bad when a horse throws you and that's only 20-something.
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That's true. And for some companies, like Michelin, it's a lot worse. Some European companies in the past few years have been forced to source their rubber from places which don't produce good rubber, due to various EU regulations. If you do some google searches on the Michelin tire crack issues, you'll get better details about it.

People with collector cars sometimes fall into this forgetful gap because they hardly put any miles on the car, but the tires are old. I'm guilty of that. It's easily two years past when I should have replaced my tires on my collector car, and now you can't find that size, so I have to look for specialty places which make those in low quantities. Ergo, I'll be dishing out some big bucks.
 
MissThundercat said:
I use my car for Uber Eats and Instacart, because money is money.
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I know you do quite a bit of that to get by. But that style of driving is fairly rough on equipment.

Have you put together a plan for when you have something break that is gonna cost more than the car to fix?

I'm not talking about looking into specific vehicles per se (like "I want the Blue ___ from XYZ Dealership for $XX,xxx), but more or less getting the lay of the land as far as what's available, what the general going rates for stuff are, what dealerships are non-douchey, and so on.

Doing that research ahead of time and knowing what your options are will go a long way in mitigating the stress when the inevitable happens.
 
Russell Jaslow said:
That's true. And for some companies, like Michelin, it's a lot worse. Some European companies in the past few years have been forced to source their rubber from places which don't produce good rubber, due to various EU regulations. If you do some google searches on the Michelin tire crack issues, you'll get better details about it.

People with collector cars sometimes fall into this forgetful gap because they hardly put any miles on the car, but the tires are old. I'm guilty of that. It's easily two years past when I should have replaced my tires on my collector car, and now you can't find that size, so I have to look for specialty places which make those in low quantities. Ergo, I'll be dishing out some big bucks.
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My late FIL gave us his minivan. never changed the tires. one evening my wife was driving it and the tires went poof. They had dry rotted after 12 - 13 years.
 
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