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i already have the 2020 mitsubishi in thailand, my wife and in-laws are using it. but mum's car here is a manual transmission piece of shit that has done 250,000 kms. i hate driving it except maybe 5% of the time when i enjoy shifting gears for shits and giggles

anyway i am thinking honda CR-V

do any of you have it the honda CR-V

I looked into them.

I have to get a new car too. Mine died.

My parents had a crv at one time, and you see them a lot here in wv. Old and new models they are great little suv's

2007-2010 CRVs are still fairly common here and parts are abdundant. I have a buddy who's got the entry level trim with the 6 speed manual tranny and it still runs smoothly to this day.

There's also the Hyundai Starex from the same model years and both cost about the same and are fairly common here too and considered as reliable. If you need a big vehicle, it could be an option as well.

Crv ain't bad at all

i think it will be the CRV then

my first honda since 2006. full circle. i went honda -> ford -> kia -> bmw -> mitsubishi. seems i don't have much loyalty

Oldsmobile - chevy - vw - vw

User wrote: ↑

11 Nov 2024, 08:18

i think it will be the CRV then

my first honda since 2006. full circle. i went honda -> ford -> kia -> bmw -> mitsubishi. seems i don't have much loyalty

You went through the experience of owning a modern-day Ford? I feel sorry for you, buddy.

While I agree with you buddy, he didn't say what year it was. Could have been one of those square body F150s from the 80s!

or an ecosport

Yeah. I was going to get a B Max. 1.0 engine.

That went down well with my mechanic friends.

Z's bouncy tits wrote: ↑

11 Nov 2024, 21:45

Yeah. I was going to get a B Max. 1.0 engine.

That went down well with my mechanic friends.

We only had the c-max over here. Still had the same shit ass engine in it though.

I thought of the C too.

I'm a terrible judge of engines.

You gotta buy an older vehicle if you want a damn near bulletproof engine.

2.5L in the vw mk5 body styles
2GR or the 2AR in Toyotas

Absolutely unfuckwithable if you do basic maintenance.

my ford was 1989 and kicked ass

i looked at some CR-Vs today. they were not the ones i wanted. and i had to deal with car salesmen. ugh

How about a used Toyota RAV4 or Hyundai Tucson? At least those are what I can think of as CR-V equivalents. You also have a diesel option with the Tucson if that's your thing.

Hyundai/Kia are great if you don't use their engines. Those things are absolute dog shit.

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12 Nov 2024, 13:49

and i had to deal with car salesmen. ugh

We'll add in a velvet steering wheel cover and fluffy dice.

Methuselah Honeysuckle wrote: ↑

13 Nov 2024, 00:14

Hyundai/Kia are great if you don't use their engines. Those things are absolute dog shit.

Fortunately (at least in my area), we don't have those problematic GDi engines that plagued a lot of Sonatas and Elantras in the US. All trims of Tucsons and Santa Fes here use turbocharged diesel engines since the early 2010s I think.

In any case, I would definitely prefer a RAV4 over a CR-V but that would all depend on herr luke's options.

Dude it's not just sonatas and elantras. It's every single vehicle they make!

...my daily is a hyundai

i do not have it the cr-v. i do want a newer car but newer cars are too expensive and manuals are getting very hard to find

jawn galliano wrote: ↑

14 Nov 2024, 02:01

i do not have it the cr-v. i do want a newer car but newer cars are too expensive and manuals are getting very hard to find

Couple more got killed off this year too. I think it's down to under 15 total available in the states on new car models. Pretty much every one of them is a sports/high end car too.

now i am thinking of going down to a mitsubish asx, old simple car, since i have a mitsubishi already, and a brand new one with roof racks and a 10yr warranty costs the same as a 4yr old cr-v about to be out of warranty their 5yr warranty. but then the warranty is actually km limited hmmmm

asx is smaller, but has 2.0L displacement and 18" wheels, but engine is worse "stroke me, for i wish to orgasm"

Are Mitsubishi still big overseas? There's only like 3 dealers left in my state and they are all attached to other dealers.

yeah plenty of mitsubishi still in australia and thailand

That's a mini Montero Sport.

now i am thinking skoda kamiq

Just get one of these and be done with it

hahahaha

Methuselah Honeysuckle wrote: ↑

14 Nov 2024, 04:29

jawn galliano wrote: ↑

14 Nov 2024, 02:01

i do not have it the cr-v. i do want a newer car but newer cars are too expensive and manuals are getting very hard to find

Couple more got killed off this year too. I think it's down to under 15 total available in the states on new car models. Pretty much every one of them is a sports/high end car too.

yeah when i was idly looking last year i was relieved to see they still had 6speed jettas, and of course they killed that off in '25 unless you spend $40,000 for the GLI. same deal pretty much across the board, the only 'low-end' models that still offer it only do on like a single premium trim that starts at 30-35k

Yup. Honda is the same way with the civic. Gotta buy the sti if you want a 6 speed.

yup. pretty sure the hatchbacks still had manuals up until very recently too, but even those are close to 30k just to get in the door

there is a lot more choice in australia for cars, make and model, than the u.s., and obviously most combustion engine cars have a manual option

australia is like a weird testing ground. like how do we have more makes selling here than in the u.s. when we are 1/10th the size of the u.s. market

We've got a ton of brands. It's just all shit for manual transmissions.

check this vid nick, you will like it

also i bought the car, well i put the deposit down

skoda kamiq 2024 with roof racks, tow bar, 7 year warranty, and prepaid 7 year service plan. $39,500 AUD, so that's $25,520 USD

and also UV tinted windows from the cancer council, which is like our big government public health cancer body, cos you know ... the only reason i am getting the car is because my mum is dying of cancer, so what the fuck

User wrote: ↑

16 Nov 2024, 09:34

check this vid nick, you will like it

The market here is absolutely nothing like that. I'm not up on every single brand for new car prices but it seems like everything is $30-$35k (about 46k-54k in a AUD) for the low end models.

I'm still not totally sold on flipping to an EV just yet. The range is still pretty lacking overall. Add in the time you have to spend charging and how hard it can be to find the proper charger for your brand. It's just a very easy pass until they get all that shit ironed out.

While EVs don't have much on the maintenance side of things besides brakes/tires. If you get an accident here and a single airbag deploys the chances of being totalled are stupid high. As it stands now there's no way to verify if the high voltage battery was damaged during an accident. So that becomes item #1 on any estimate for a body shop. Depending on the brand that can be anywhere between $5,000 to $30,000+.

yeah i imagine maybe the next car will be an EV. but now i am locked in with the 2020 model in thailand and the 2024 here.

took my car to the dealer for a diagnosis after the shop near my house couldn't work it out, they want to rip the whole fucking turbocharger out and replace it for $5000. despite the fact that there are no actual or obvious signs of mechanical failure, the tech miraculously diagnosed it as such after looking at it for less than an hour, clearly just pulled the codes and said "oh hey it's a turbocharger-related DTC, let's just replace the whole thing". everyone in the auto repair business can suck a dick, mine in particular

The 1.8L engine? What the hell was it doing that landed it in the shop in the first place?

yeah you know it. persistent CEL, started out with an upstream o2 DTC, replaced the sensor, no fix. fast forward a couple months, as it starts to get cold i'm getting some jerky acceleration out of 1st, clearly not getting enough boost but it's intermittent. as the temps continue to drop, i'm getting zero boost at all and it's about as energetic as a concussed slug, and after another scan it's now throwing a boost sensor voltage DTC. then a random 60 degree day, suddenly everything's back to normal. and as temps drop, the intermittent acceleration problems return. so the turbine's clearly fine, something's probably telling the BOV to stay wide open or some shit, i dunno.

It could be something as simple as the maf sensor is clogged/fucked enough to cause the problem but not enough to throw a code. This engine is also known for issues in the vacuum system. It runs all over the car and it's just shitty rubber hose that dry rots.

I'd start looking for a 3rd opinion. Hell you could even look in the engine bay to see if any of the vacuum lines are fucked if you know what a dry rotted piece of rubber looks like.

yeah, it's almost certainly the MAF, OAT or maybe a boost sensor? but absolutely not a mechanical failure, and if you have a rudimentary understanding of how cars and forced induction work, this isn't remotely difficult to work out.

I can't remember what year your car is but I know it's a mk6 generation. So it might actually be a map sensor instead of a maf sensor. But either way the boost and maf/map sensors are easy to get to if you wanna try replacing them yourself. Neither should require programing, just plug and play to my knowledge.

I did do a little more reading on this engine in general. Both of these sensors are prone to broken wires too. Worth poking around to see if you can put eyeballs on a break in any of them.

Grab your VIN and head over to fcpeuro or ecstuning and see what the parts will run you. Take into account that fcpeuro has a killer warranty program if you go this route.

what car is this again mark

Mk6 jetta

ohhh yeah that's right

well i am about to own a skoda so mark and i can be buddies

i like the interior

And me

i saw a jetta on my jog last night. it was black and said 2.0 tdi. i was listening to incantation. i thought of you guys