[Closed] Any Honda CRV owners?

Considering one myself, neighbours had a couple as family cars and spoke highly of them. Functional and reliable with limited driving appeal as are many Japanese cars. Most bought with auto which suits the car. Diesels suffering from VW fallout as you’d expect. Also IMHO Japanese cars are about petrol and hybrid tech, diesel was just bought in for European market.

The torque of the diesel suits the car better, but if it is for short runs then petrol as the dpf will be an issue

Love ours (2010 1.9 Diesel, manual) but I only have brief dalliances with hire cars to compare to, it's the first car I've owned.

with limited driving appeal

Would contest this, but again, I've very little to compare to. When I don't have the wee man or my wife in the car with me it's plenty of fun, tend to seek out the scenic detours on minor roads when I can.

Ours suffered a rotten fuel pipe but Honda were aware of the issue and fixed under warranty despite us being the third owners, was happy with that.

Unfortunately we also suffered a cracked EGR pipe under the bonnet. Honda wouldn't fix for free (they would have were the car under 80,000 miles) but it didn't cost too much with our local mechanic.

No issues with DPF but I do treat the car to whatever premium diesel I can find at the pumps, on our mechanic's recommendation. Wife thinks I'm a mug but I'm happy to take the mechanic's advice.

Barely scraping 40mpg, probably not helped by frequent short hops during the week, so ultimately we wouldn't buy a diesel again as most of our journeys are short and slow 🙁

I looked at one briefly during my quest to replace an XC60.

Nice enough, suited my (complete lack of) driving style (think grandad in grandads slippers who drives at speed limits or below) I tried the diesel version, no idea what size engine and auto. And it pulled nicely, drove normally. I set the control to see what ave mpg (in the morning I test drove it) and it returned 45-47mpg on mix of A road-Motorway-Suburban stuff.
Nice open spaces inside, the materials were very nicely finished, quiet and very comfortable. Huge space in rear and the seats fold to open up the cabin like a van. Driving position nice and up, plenty of vision, all the controls were where they ought to be and TBH I got in it, stuck it in drive and drove out the dealership and felt like I’d been driving it forever. You can easily get bikes in with the rear seat folded with wheels on, I got 3 surf boards in it passenger side with rear seat flat and front folded backwards.
TBH there’s little more to say other than it’s an effective tool, large though (I mean big, not the footprint but the bulk of it)
Over riding feature was just how comfortable it was.

I didn’t buy it, I bought something else.

I have a 2014 1.6 Diesel as our family car, its a brilliant car for what we use it for and i would buy one again. Really practical, loads of space inside.

I think they have changed the 1.6 in the newer ones but i wish ours was a bit more refined, the engine is a bit chuggy compared to the smooth 2.0 TDI in my golf. It has enough grunt for the car fine though and i can get high 40 Mpg no problem.

I've had 20+ CRV's, starting with Gen2's.

In the past I've always prefered diesels over petrol and manuals over autos.

The last two have been 1.6 diesels with the 9-speed (ZF sourced) auto box, which I've found to be brilliant. This auto is really smooth and perfect for both urban commutes and longer motorway runs. Also found it a much more relaxed drive in the Alps and even had it off road, although if you're going to do that properly, you'll need to swap the fitted road tyres for M+S ones.

In terms of the option, always gone with the EX model, which comes with all the useful toys. Tried the 19" wheels a couple of times, but didn't like them.

I've only ever had to go through the DPF regen cycle once, which just involved a 35 mile blast on the motorway at 60mph.

Honda are dropping the diesel option for the CRV later this year. The line up will then be a 2.0 hybrid petrol and a 1.5 turbo petrol.

I've only ever had to go through the DPF regen cycle once, which just involved a 35 mile blast on the motorway at 60mph.

embarrassing 'haven't read the manual' question: How did you know when you had to do this?

I've done a couple of blasts along the motorway at 2500RPM as I'd heard this helped the DPF, wasn't sure if the car told you when it was going through a regen?

Mum & Dad have got one, they love it. It's a diesel and they get and mpg in the mid 30's which is they're only grumble as they thought it'd be better.

We looked at one a few months back.
Here had some great lease deals...
https://www.whatcar.com/car-leasing/deals/honda/cr-v/diesel-estate-1.6-i-dtec-se-plus-5dr-2wd-nav/personal/2527102/?price_id=30319317

I've had 20+ CRV's, starting with Gen2's

Good grief, surely that's more than 1 a year!

My wife has one, Diesel manual, with AWD. We live out in the sticks a bit so get lots of floods wind snow etc etc and she’s on call at night. Does about 40mpg which is a mix of country lanes, big hills Farm tracks A roads etc.

Really comfortable to drive, fast on the motorway, and has been no bother in the year and a bit we’ve had it.

I've only ever had to go through the DPF regen cycle once, which just involved a 35 mile blast on the motorway at 60mph.

embarrassing 'haven't read the manual' question: How did you know when you had to do this?

I've done a couple of blasts along the motorway at 2500RPM as I'd heard this helped the DPF, wasn't sure if the car told you when it was going through a regen?

Warning light on the dash and then read the manual, which describes the procedure for the regen.
Shouldn't normally be necessary, but I suspect I'd done a lot of stop start commutes, without a long run in between.

 

I've had 20+ CRV's, starting with Gen2's

Good grief, surely that's more than 1 a year!

Yep. Fortunate to be on their Friends and Family scheme, so get to change it every ~9k miles.

Had one. Slow, not great handling, very comfortable, cavernous with the back seats down, loads of legroom for back seat passengers so not much boot space with back seats in use. petrol and pretty thirsty. loved the free picnic table but not sure if they are still fitted.

Picnic table was Gen1&2 (1996-2006) which was much more of an off-roader, with handling to match

We're currently at Gen5, which is definitely a soft-roader and handles like a regular car. Boot space is also much improved.

Had a 2.0 petrol ex for the last 3 years, loved it, wrote it off 3 weeks ago after losing it on black ice. Managed to do £20k worth of damage and we both walked out without a scratch. Just ordered a 1.6d auto ex, felt better than the petrol to drive and hopefully the fuel economy will make a good difference. The petrol was quick enough but it needed plenty revs to make it shift for overtakes. Very comfortable on long runs, I don't feel nearly as tired after a longish trip as I used to in our other cars, leg room in the rear is great for my lanky teenagers and the dog cage fits great in the boot.