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MrJoshua wrote:So I have to ask: How much?
uh...with the awesome prelude wheels and sweet (kinda taller too) michelin tires, 3k should be get-able i think. that should be under the kbb value, i'll have to check.
just changed the oil today, and figured out it needs sway bushings. makes a "pop" once in-a-while.
on the way to church today, i remembered i wanted to add to this thread that the interiors in these things are virtually indestructable. (cloth)....its rather incredible.
One of my wife's co-workers has a 1999 CRV with 150,000 miles on it for sale. It's blue but I'm waiting to hear if it's an LX or EX. I do know it's an automatic. He's asking $1,500. Seems like a good price but the knowledgeable people here can correct me if I'm wrong.
In reply to Sultan:
Look for rust on the 1gens, but other than that you really can't go wrong. Great cars.
I like this thread...I'm also looking at small SUVs for DD and maybe even lowering it for aweswome wrongness. My first two options are the first gen Kia Sportage and the Suzuki Sidekick and now I might add the CRV to that list.
My mother has one with almost 300K on it. Just timing belts so far. I think its rocking the OG water pump. its been garaged its while life but the paint is fading very bad. Its an auto, Its been a really great DD
Vigo wrote:I actually really like the styling of the first gens.
Me too - I always thought it had a kind-of taut angular look to it, without a bunch of heavy crap tacked on (it is rather small by modern crossover standards I guess). They absolutely ruined the styling on the 2nd gen. 3rd gen is nice in some ways, but in modern Honda fashion a bit of a mixed bag. They must have at least 3-5 designers working in solitude over there, all working on the same car, but unable to actually talk to one another. 
One of these would actually work pretty well for our family as a 3rd car, a.k.a. German-shepherd-mobile.
I haven't looked at prices yet, but $3K seems reasonable for a useful, reliable, halfway modern conveyance.
I had one for a while, 99EX. Boring, slow, tippy, nothing good to say, but fine for its intended purpose. I was just surprised at how much I didn't like it.
Diff is sensitive and wants special Honda fluid (don't know how real this is but I wasn't going to find out). Rear door is heavy and cumbersome opening wide and the wrong way.
99 changed the rear door panels to include cup holders. That's about the extent of the excitement.
Good news is that there is a folding table under the cargo floor in case you ever need to have a spontaneous roadside picnic.
