RE: Honda HR-V | Shed of the Week

[Jam_s160]

LochTay said:

A great Shed IMO.

For those saying 'refuse to die' and 'reliable' - my old boss had one then a mk1 CRV. Both ate suspension parts for breakfast on Highland roads, both developed (particularly CRV) squeaks and rattles that really annoyed. Yes generally reliable, but maintenance was relatively high.
Whack some winter tyres on and these make brilliant outdoor enthusiast cars - fling masses of kit in the back, boats or bikes on the roof and go.

See post above, Im in Aberdeenshire, running a CRV shed long term... no issues with the suspension or rattles and mine gets hammered weekly all year round. Mine is a 2004 so would that be a mk2? rather than the mk1?

[Vantagemech..]

I had one for a few years - it was to replace the Vitara my missus had and as we lived (at the time) at the bottom of a steepish hill that would strand us it it snowed so the HRV fit the bill nicely.
Not fast, but reasonably roomy. An estate car on stilts with 2wd until required. Mine started burning oil quite badly but a set of rings, a hone and a new head gasket put that right. I stuck winters on the OE wheels and RS3 on a set of civic sport wheels that made it look better IMO... Haters gonna hate but it was a good family car to move around in carrying bikes on the roof , easy to drive and sold if for £300 less than I paid for it and kept the private plate as well....

[WhiteBaron]

There is a chance its only fwd.. Lower powered engine and 3 door.

I doubt the dealer has actually looked...... Nice!

[knebworth01]

Always liked the spoiler on the 5 door with brake lights running full length, Audi is copying that now!
Could never figure out why they didn't put the 5 door spoiler on the three door though?

[chungasarnies]

I remember having one of these out for a test drive something like 20 years ago, and all I can recall is that the ride was astonishingly bad. Felt like it was riding on scaffold pole

[trails]

I almost committed to one of these as a bike shed...but ended up with a Forester XT in the end. Still some want though, the two door is such a quirky cool looking thing

[Tom _M]

For any sheddists with a 99-02 Hondas I had this in relation to an old CR-V that has now moved onto the scrappers. Presumably they had my details as I had some Honda coolant from parts dept before.

[crofty1984]

Frimley111R said:

I owned one of these, great little car, and look very individual. The next HR-V they made was shockingly dull.

Honda really need to get back to some individual styling as their range has mostly been cripplingly dull for the past 20 years.

I've got a 2017 HRV. It is functional.

[Jam_s160]

Tom _M said:

For any sheddists with a 99-02 Hondas I had this in relation to an old CR-V that has now moved onto the scrappers. Presumably they had my details as I had some Honda coolant from parts dept before.

Yup I got this too for my CRV, I took it to the Honda dealer last year for the recall work on a 2004 car. They also did all the other recalls on it too. Car was only worth £1000. Anyway they cleaned it nicely and gave me a courtesy car for two days while they had it. Really can’t complain... service chap said it was £2000 worth of recall work done.

[nunpuncher]

I liberated one of these off my old man about 10 years back. X reg 5 door in early rustgold with a blue interior.

At the time I was commuting 20k miles a year so couldn't afford to run a sporty petrol and fast diesels just weren't doing it for me. I traded my 330d against a z4c and ran the hrv as my commuter.

I grew quite fond of it because of its flaws and questionable looks and colour scheme. I ended up keeping it 2 years during which it was never serviced and nothing ever broke. It was quite a thirsty thing and it wouldn't pull the skin off a custard.

I've recently bought a cheapo MK3 CRV 2l and it is very reminiscent. It's not gold and blue though.

[hypermark]

Brilliant shed write up...brought a smile to my face. Keep em coming......

[Mr Tidy]

So it seems it may keep going for years, but I really wouldn't want to be seen dead in one - although the 3 door looks like it might be quite easy to convert into a hearse!

[BFleming]

Macron said:

£100 more, 78k, far better nick.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/2020111862...

£150 more, 53k.....

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/2020092843...

Doesn't count, has to be from the PH classifieds. Where we all buy our cars...

[BenRichards89]

My dad had a 2003 5 door one of these in the same colour. VTEC and 4wd.
Nice car but very bland inside. Front bumper colour match looked exactly like that too.

[Johnspex]

Tom _M said:

For any sheddists with a 99-02 Hondas I had this in relation to an old CR-V that has now moved onto the scrappers. Presumably they had my details as I had some Honda coolant from parts dept before.

My CRV never went near a Honda dealer, so, when I got the recall letter I assumed they'd got details from the DVLA.
Same with my 3 series.

[Minimad79]

Blue rinse paintwork to match your hair!

[Escort Si-130]

So strange, I was looking at used ones earlier this week. Remember the adverts also

[Escort Si-130]

Quhet said:

Quite like these but I'm not really sure what they were 'for' - they just seem to be a bit of a compromise of too many things. And slow. the colour of this one is horrible too. This sort of shade of light metallic blue rarely suits any car imo.

Its a small SUV, practically before VW group joined in on it with their T-roc, Tiguan etc

Nothing wrong with the colour, as long as its not "resale silver"

[Escort Si-130]

Drive Blind said:

In my head I’ve got a scenario where a genius Honda engineer finally gets his dream to lead and design his car. He comes up with the HRV, with ideas of young people having fun, roadtrips, weekends away, going windsurfing in his car.

Instead, every one built spent its days in a garage, then doddling along an A road at 39mph to the nearest garden centre. Never carrying more than 2 pensioners and a tartan blanket.

Maybe in the UK this was the case but the world does NOT revolve around the UK and its badge snobs. Many other countries they were not bought by just old people.

[Escort Si-130]

HTP99 said:

Drive Blind said:

In my head I’ve got a scenario where a genius Honda engineer finally gets his dream to lead and design his car. He comes up with the HRV, with ideas of young people having fun, roadtrips, weekends away, going windsurfing in his car.

Instead, every one built spent its days in a garage, then doddling along an A road at 39mph to the nearest garden centre. Never carrying more than 2 pensioners and a tartan blanket.

Exactly like the Renault Modus, the marketing bods said it would be great for young cool things (god knows why they thought that, did they actually look at it), in truth, only old people bought it.

The Modus was a piece of st, not even old people bothered with it, only clueless types that just wanted an A to B car bought them.