It might have had a hard life before I got it. Still typically I can re-work a used car and get it back to factory reliability. It works with Japanese cars. This one, it never ended.

I’d call not selling cars most people don’t want yet to be a canny strategy. Toyota can sell cars today because they protected their supplier sources after being caught short once in the past.

I didn’t say I didn’t like it. It was a fantastic car to drive. I just got tired of the constant repairs.

That’s a 3rd gen. 2nd gen was 09-13. I wouldn’t touch a 2015 3rd gen. They’re not reliable at all. They’re all that’s wrong with newer Hondas. Honda traded fuel economy for reliability in their cheapest newer vehicles.

I really recommend a 2nd gen Fit for kids cars. They’re as reliable as the day is long, good crash safety and easy to maintain. The last gen of super reliable Hondas with a conventional auto (or manual) and conventional fuel injection so no fuel dilution or valve coking problems. Prices are high but not crazy high…

I owned an E36 M3. It was always broken. I mean always. I even did a drivetrain out refurb on the thing to fix the transmission. The interior fell apart. The chassis cracked around the rear diff. It never left me stranded but there was always something leaking or needing fixed.

Just avoid the ones from 00-05. I have 220,000 some odd miles on the automatic in my Odyssey. Still drives perfectly. I beat it like a red-headed step child too. I load it up for dump trips. It’s not been an easy 200K miles.

Honda says replace the flywheel and don’t cut them. That’s what I do. I don’t know if this one is dual mass or not but dual mass flywheels are consumables. They wear out over time so even if they don’t need a cut, you should replace them anyway when you have it apart.

Yeah, there’s plenty to like about the HR-V.  Sometimes you just need an appliance to get you to the store reliably. 

Everyone is armed here in VA and DC.  A plan to “citizen arrest” people probably won’t go very well. 

This is how I learned to drive too. My grandpa broke his hip and I came down to shuttle him around for the summer.  I think I was 14-15. 

I can accept “Always online” with my PC games but, not for my console games. I want to be able to carry my console places and continue to be able to play my games. Not being tied down to the internet.

I agree that they’re asked to do too much but fixing that won’t prevent the rights violations or any of the many other illegal things the police do because there’s no consequences.

Then why are they there? What is their job?

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/17/re-funding-the-police-taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-more-than-billion-dollars-in-lawsuits-against-law-enforcement-officers/

So you don’t lock your car when you park it and walk away or you mean your gas cap door doesn’t lock? My 2009 Fit gas tank cover locks when I lock the car. That’s one of the cheapest cars you could buy back in ‘09.

Locking caps are a thing of the past. My cars lock the gas cap when I lock the car. It unlocks it when I unlock the car so, I just push on the fuel door to open it. Wife’s Acura doesn’t even have a gas cap. It’s self sealing after you fuel up.

Agreed. It would take a decent amount of time and effort to pull 10 gallons our of a small drilled hole.   Some cars, like my ‘00's subaru had a drain plug built into the tank. I’ve drained the fuel through the plug before. 

Lots of modern cars have plastic tanks. I’m skeptical they can be repaired. I’ve epoxied up leaky metal fuel tanks before. It held as long as I kept the car. A plastic repair would need another method. Maybe a plug made from gas proof rubber?

It’s not like anyone cares if another rich guy dies crashing his super-car. I certainly wouldn’t miss any sleep over it.