Thread: Hairdresser 4x4

I never thought I'd say this but I've been really impressed with my friend's CRV. It's a first gen, I think it's a 2000.

Cheap to buy, cheap to run, makes better use of interior space than an equivalent rav4, visibility is very good, the bottom of the boot comes out and turns into a table for convenient glamping with the whanau, and the 4wd system actually seems to work. It's 2wd (front) until it gets some slip then automatically engages the 4wd, at which point it seems to act like an LSD centre. No idea how it actually works, but that's how it behaves. In the words of my mate "I thought it would be shit, but it isn't." It's easy to drive. Drives like a car.

Theirs has 250k on it and everything works great with little maintenance. It was virtually ignored from 100k to 220k until my mate got together with the owner and it started seeing maintenance again. He did the head gasket a little while ago due to an overheating incident that came from it running the coolant low. Measured the head/block flatness and it was perfect, and everything else was in great condition so seems to be a good little motor.

It's pretty boxy so at highway speeds it's a bit noisy.