Motoring Discussion > Honda HR-V - Honda HRV as a temp used car. Any experiences? Buying / Selling
Thread Author: Fenlander Replies: 12
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New Tue 13 Nov 12 12:28 
 Honda HR-V - Honda HRV as a temp used car. Any experiences? - Fenlander
May end up with a 3mth gap between cars early 2013 so will need something cheap and temp. Sensible head says get an old petrol Fiesta/Polo/Corsa which will resell to a youngster easily in a few months. Daft thoughts though sway towards a £1000 big Volvo or Mercedes etc which would be very hard to move on.

By chance I noticed a middle ground option of a Honda HRV from around 2001. Basic 1.6 petrol plus 4WD might be a good winter car.

Anyone any experience of them?
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New Tue 13 Nov 12 12:33 
 Honda HR-V - Honda HRV as a temp used car. Any experiences? - Runfer D'Hills
There's a guy near me who has had one for years. Says he can't break it which seems a good enough recommendation. Funny metallic yellowish gold though. Still he likes it.

I expect they are the sort of car you'd imagine you'd not like but would find really very good at most things. Isn't that one of the famously reliable V-tec engines I want to think?
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New Tue 13 Nov 12 12:34 
 Honda HR-V - Honda HRV as a temp used car. Any experiences? - R.P.
Expensive door mirrors
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New Tue 13 Nov 12 12:35 
 Honda HR-V - Honda HRV as a temp used car. Any experiences? - Runfer D'Hills
Don't you start !
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New Tue 13 Nov 12 12:36 
 Honda HR-V - Honda HRV as a temp used car. Any experiences? - Focusless
Have you checked out HJ Fenlander? He's not a big fan (2*), although the one owner who's reviewed it sounds happy:
www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/honda/hr-v-1999/
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New Tue 13 Nov 12 12:45 
 Honda HR-V - Honda HRV as a temp used car. Any experiences? - Lygonos
Civic/CRV lovechild (more in common with the Civic).

Mechanically fine, especially if just a stop-gap model.
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New Tue 13 Nov 12 13:42 
 Honda HR-V - Honda HRV as a temp used car. Any experiences? - madf
Next door neighbour has had one since 1999. Faultless.
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New Tue 13 Nov 12 14:08 
 Honda HR-V - Honda HRV as a temp used car. Any experiences? - Gromit
Honda were said to have axed the HRV because they had difficulty explaining to potential customers why they should pay more for a CRV than a five-door HRV.

Considering that CRV owners seem to be a satisfied bunch, I'd consider that praise. Put it this way, I'd have been happy to have one instead of my old Forester as a winter car had one been on offer at the time.

If you're thinking of keeping it, or it needs new tyres anyway, or you'll drive it in genuinely bad conditions, you may want to consider a set of all-season tyres for it. AFAIK, HRVs and CRVs were supplied with summer road tyres as standard - at least, that's what the CRV loaner I got once had on it.
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New Tue 13 Nov 12 15:58 
 Honda HR-V - Honda HRV as a temp used car. Any experiences? - Fenlander
Thanks. Seems a very positive vibe.

The HJ 2* rating is a bit weird because if you read his summary it sounds good. They are a vehicle that have never attracted my attention but seem to have a good combination of understated looks, road/track abilities and well proven simple mechanicals. Many seem to have been cared for by typical Honda owners so have reached "banger" values in excellent condition... sometimes one/two owners with full history.

If nothing happens to change circumstances got to be a serious bet.

I quite like that met yellow but, on the early ones for sure, there is only one interior colour which is blue. Looks weird with paint colours other than blue or silver.

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New Tue 13 Nov 12 16:22 
 Honda HR-V - Honda HRV as a temp used car. Any experiences? - Runfer D'Hills
Strikes me as the sort of thing you might end up keeping longer than you first intended. Or not depending how you got on with it I suppose.

A good few years ago now, gosh it must be nearly 20 on reflection, but anyway, my wife's then newish Astra was stolen from a railway station car park while she was at work and it took a little while to get the insurance company to cough up because the car wasn't found for a few weeks. I guess they wanted to decide whether it would be fixable or not. It wasn't in the end but of course as usual, I digress.

We lived in a very rural area and with no public transport she needed a car to tide her over. So we went to one of the very early car supermarkets and asked them what was the cheapest car they had which had an MOT and which they'd give a 3 month warranty. The upshot was that we came away with an oldish very cheap but tidy enough Mk1 Panda. The idea was that once the Astra debacle was resolved she'd sell the Panda and either have the Astra back or get a new car.

In the end, she had the Panda for 4 years and did averagely 300 miles a week in it. Rust got it eventually. Never let her down mechanically. She just decided that actually it was fine and the lump of money which had been in the Astra got re-directed to presumably some better use at the time.

I used to love driving it. It reminded me of a terrier somehow. A bit scruffy, but willing if you see what I mean?

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New Tue 13 Nov 12 21:42 
 Honda HR-V - Honda HRV as a temp used car. Any experiences? - Dog
You've read the Parker's I take it bwana:

www.parkers.co.uk/cars/reviews/owners-reviews/honda/hr-v/estate-1999/
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New Wed 14 Nov 12 09:09 
 Honda HR-V - Honda HRV as a temp used car. Any experiences? - Fenlander
I have now thanks Dog, very positive.

We already run all seasons on one car Gromit so unless an old HRV came with almost new matching tyres (unlikely) I'd probably change them for all season.

Humph that's a well summed up scenario and one that could happen. It's nice to have something shiny with all the toys fall in your lap but there can also be pleasure in something basic and cheap. I think that's more true when you make a choice to go cheap rather than being forced to.
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New Wed 14 Nov 12 09:24 
 Honda HR-V - Honda HRV as a temp used car. Any experiences? - Dog
>>It's nice to have something shiny with all the toys fall in your lap but there can also be pleasure in something basic and cheap.
I think that's more true when you make a choice to go cheap rather than being forced to<<

Amen to that brother!
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