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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MrCat" data-source="post: 30420580" data-attributes="member: 38575">I am actually about 400km away from home (small holiday) and came across this thread. Speaking of Honda's, my CRV with a K24A (2.4 petrol) just reached 230k on the clock. It hasn't seen a garage/service centre after 100k kms. I've been changing fluids on time (every relavant fluid: diff fluid, gearbox etc..). Oil filter housing started leaking a bit, I just changed the gasket (1 hour job with the car on Axel stands). I replaced both front drive shafts due to a minor vibration at around 180k on the clock. Absolutely no other issues or repairs, not even an A/C regas/service. This thing gets used 7 days a week. I may come back from work (1 hr drive) and the wife may go to the gym/shopping after. Then all the school/class runs with the child. And holiday drives too.. The engine don't get a chance to cool down during the day most days.. lol..  <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😀" title="Grinning face    :grinning:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" data-shortname=":grinning:" />I'm having a serious issue selecting a new car (it has to be a medium SUV) from what's available in this market (AUS, not SL). I have second fun car (a 3 liter turbo) and a couple of motorbikes, so the daily hack needs to be something to jump in and drive with relatively cheap maintenace. Just don't have time to waste, even if it's getting repaired under warranty.At the moment, the only rational choice is the RAV4 Hybrid. Not because i am a Toyota fan, but every other medium SUV in the market is having one drawback or another. That's how crazy car engineering has become. Lexus NX 350H is using the same RAV4 platform, so that's also an option, though with a $30k price hike.I think the car market is going full cycle. Back in the day, the Brits used to make shit cars (Land Rovers that leaked from factory, etc...) but people were used to the issues and kept buying/repairing them. Then the Japs started making superior cars and killed the British car industry. The Americans used to make fantastic cars in the 50's , 60's etc... (most of the innovations in the industry were American, including the intermittent wiper..) Then they dropped the ball by the 90's.. Looks like the Chinese have started to own the electric car market now. Who knows, in a decade or so, thet may produce highly reliable EV's good for a couple of decades with no maintenance. Only issue is software though, software based systems do get outdated pretty quickly (the nature of software).</blockquote>

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