USED Honda CR-V (2nd-gen) - The common problems and should you buy one? | ReDriven used car review

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My nan loves her CRV, she is Italian and therefore never wrong

No interest in buying this car but I can’t stop watching these vids. You guys are going great, love it 🍻

My wife and I took one of these around Namibia and Botswana in 2023. Almost 15000km of mostly offroad and sand - no drama’s and really easy to live with. Came back to Oz and bought one 👍

Adam I bought my mates 2nd hand 2003 CRV Sport (at trade price!🤭). He & his wife had it from new. Serviced its entire life with Honda I bought it with almost 200,000km on it for my then teenage kids to learn in. I only sold it some two years ago to my daughters boyfriend. It’s now nudging around 300,000km & doesn’t leak a drop of oil. I had only two issues with it. A left hand rear wheel bearing & the indicator stalk which I got dirt cheap from a Honda wrecker & fitted myself. I still say to my kids & daughter’s boyfriend, it was one of the best cars I’ve owned. For practicality, yep loved that picnic table, the fold down console & ease to drive & live with, a bloody fantastic little runabout!👍🏼😎

My wife had one of these for 12 years, sports version with cruise, sunroof and colour coded exterior. It was the best car we have ever owned. The auto gearbox was replaced under warranty due to a torque converter fault, but apart from that, the only things that were replaced were tyres, brake pads and rear struts. We traded it in with 249000kms on it and it still never used a drop of oil between 10000km service intervals. We found it very comfortable and loved driving it. They don't make them like that anymore.

At last, some gen 2 CRV love.

2002 CR-V now with 460000 km. Unscheduled maintenance-replaced interior ventilation/demist fan, ignition switch, starter motor. Thats all. Apart from increased oil consumption and electric door locking issues it runs beautifully still.

I've been waiting for this video, finally! My '04 CRV is still going good at 313,000km. Very reliable.

An unbelievable car. My 2006 Sport model has a sunroof, leather seats, heated seats and a TON of space in the front and the back. People are always amazed that it's nearly 20 years when they get in. I bloody love it!

Just replaced the original clutch on mine after 340,000 k's. Never had a single mechanical fault & it's a great drive in a manual. Sooo much practicality (looks better with body coloured bumper). Way better imo than the bloated practicality compromising curves of todays designs.

Haha, no wonder you were throwing out the ash tray and pulling out the side light. Great video, we had a 1st Gen CRV, it also had the column auto, table and cup holders in the front and of course the picnic table. 🙂

Got a 3rd gen CRV myself and honestly these cars are utterly fantastic, cute trick they have too is that you can remove the headrests in the front seats and fold them down flat into the rear seats to make a psuedo flat chair/bed. Excellent little car

Knew it had to be yours AK. You’d never treat another person’s car like that. What a little nugget. These things are great! Much contemplated that these are the perfect 5th or 10th car for car enthusiasts that just need a nugget that does everything with little care.

I've been waiting for this review for a while. Glad to see it here. Congratulations on your purchase. It's a fantastic choice.

Who ever decided to add a picnic table was a genius

Great video, and always fun to see a model from another country! I just purchased a dead '05 EX with manual 5spd transmission 7 months ago. I paid $1,200 for it. 271,000mi on it at the time of purchase, 1 owner. It had been sitting for 3yrs due to a failed starter. It cost $16 for a starter rebuild kit on Amaz 0n. I can do my own wrench spinning, so I did all the service work to it, had the broken windshield replaced, then had the roof and bonnet/hood repainted. I love the silly thing, and I think it's the best car I've every owned. It's a good idea to adjust the valves on them, because the exhaust valves tend to loose their adjustment gap, and then you risk having a valve burning because it doesn't cool well. Mine were all tight. They're prone to the front bushing in the lower front control arms being torn away, and the bushings in the upper rear adjustable tie rods being compressed sideways. These 2 issues create tire alignment issues, and the front control arms will clunk and pop as you make a turn in and out of a driveway ramp. Both are easily replaced, and then have a 4 wheel alignment done. Having a quality set of shocks on them will return the ride to being very nice, so spend up on good shocks. It's worth the extra. They'll run better if you put a can of SeaFoam in the fuel tank, and let that clean the injectors and the backs of the intake valves. Not a bad idea to do this once a year. I purchased mine solely as a road trip tool, and it's been absolutely fantastic.

Mine is going strong at 380K kms! @redriven, I started following your channel because you guys talked sense and told the truth about all cars without bias. Seeing that you personally own and drive the CRV, I now have more respect for you👍 You guys are doing a great job. Keep it up!

Fantastic review! I love my CRV for so many reasons mentioned in this video! Had a oil leak when we first got it and it was a $3 part that fixed it completely. Reliable and practical. The fact that you ended up buying it is legendary!

I’ve been waiting for this video haha. Had a 2006 Sport in Cosmic Grey (best colour for the CR-V/CL9 imo) with a 5 speed manual transmission and full leather interior. It was clean. Learned how to drive manual in it, unfortunately got hit by a roo and totalled it after only a month of owning it. I didn’t have the funds to fix it :( I miss it so much so I did what any normal person would do. I went and got another one! This time a 2005 in Silver, also with a 5 speed manual transmission. It has been my daily for almost a year now. It has been reliable to say the least. With almost 300,000km on the odometer now and the K24 is still going strong. The only things that break for me are the light bulbs lol. Recently had to replace the A/C compressor tho.