Thinking about a Ridgeline.

I keep thinking this may make sense for me for my next vehicle. At that price I'd be damn tempted if I was looking.

One of the guys at work hates them. He also hates caps on regular pickups as they do not look "truck enough" with them on.

personally I like the ridgeline. I am glad Honda found that niche and exploited it

The original is certainly weird looking for a truck, but I like it. The new one? Not so much. It really does look like someone used a sawzall to turn an Odyssey into a truck.

I've said this before, but if I could plow my driveway with a Ridgeline, I would have replaced my Tacoma with one a long time ago. My Toyota has been every bit as reliable as I would expect a Honda to be, but still rides like a truck. The Ridgeline is way more comfortable, it meets my towing needs and I actually like the way that the first generation looks.

Tim Suddard wrote: Oh and the guys at the office will now tease me because there is a Ridgeline love thread.

Pssshhht. If that's all they've got on you...

I've got a line on a cherry 2006 with 95,000 miles. The owner is a cop who has babied the thing and added nice extras: modern stereo with large backup camera display, brush bar with LED array, tow package with electric brake controller, 2" lift and such. The only thing that I wonder about is that it's much more complex than past Hondas that I've owned. The Civic and Element are easy 250,000 mile cars, but is the Ridgeline likely to start breaking sooner? Thoughts?

I'd never buy one. You can get a Z06 for the same money.

Oops, wrong thread. Sorry.

A Ridgeline was on my short list for replacement vehicles. I was going to sell my e46 wagon and 89 C1500 to replace with a single TruckUV. Luckily I am about to inherit a 99 Tacoma, so free is free and the wagon will remain as my DD.

Kreb wrote: The Civic and Element are easy 250,000 mile cars, but is the Ridgeline likely to start breaking sooner? Thoughts?

Not in my experience.

Well I did it. After years of defending Ridgelines I went and got one. What a great vehicle. I happened to drive a shortbed Silverado on the way up to pick it up and can honestly say that there are two things that the Silverado does better: It's got more pep (LSX baby!) and it's got a real pickup bed. The Ridgeline is tighter, better handling, smoother ride, quieter and has better build quality. Given that it rides more smoothly than my wife's CX-7 I figured that it would wallow in the turns. Not so! I'll miss the zippy around-town qualities of my Element, but the Ridgeline seems pretty addictive.

In reply to Kreb:

As a guy that daily drove a K5 Blazer with a pickup body/bed swap and 9" lift with 39.5" Super Swampers, that's a nice-looking truck (yeah, I said truck).

That picture makes me want to take the body off and turn it backwards and reattach it. I bet it'd fool a few people.

In reply to 914Driver:

Did you end up getting one?

With the second gen out now, I'm hoping to see the first gen drop in price. We drove one of these new back in '09, and ended up with an Odyssey. But my wife still wants one...

The styling grew on me over the years. It's quirky, but masculine and a little jaunty, whereas the new one for all its virtues suffers from blandness.

In reply to Kreb:

It's certainly an order of magnitude better looking than the new one. I like that color.

I have had a 2007 Ridgeline that I bought from the original owner about 3 months ago. Love it. Gets about 17mpg in mixed driving. have a stack of receipts since new. Timing belt done twice. Brakes 4 times and of course tires and oil changes. 228K. Still looks great inside, except for wear mark on driver bolster. Nothing out of the ordinary has failed yet. I see 300K being no problem.

BBC

Are all first gen ridgelines AWD?

In reply to ebonyandivory:

All the guys I knew in the early 80's rolled their K5's with those kind of lifts/tires. You?

In reply to OHSCrifle:

yep. only way they came. They're FWD, RWD on demand, or you can lock it in. No transmission tunnel.

Woody wrote: Did you end up getting one?

Not yet.

15 months ago I started chasing an electrical gremlin; replaced the alternator, added extra grounds, new cap, rotor, wires, starter, all the big electrical cables to no avail. Found the battery to starter cable grounding intermittently on the exhaust manifold.

A hose to the steering box was stripped by the PO, so a new box and steering pump was put in. Think I'm good for another 5 years of trouble free driving! For 5% of the cost of a Ridgeline I can fix the cab corners and have a new-ish truck.

Helping my son get settled into a new house, we stopped at a taco place in Norwalk. Two fish tacos and a Pacifica, the owner comes over and asked if we own the blue truck. OK. it wasn't the best parking job.... No, no, nothing like that, he is from Chile, his family emigrated there from Germany (in the mid-40s?) He made an offer on it. No. More, I have more. No. I couldn't replace it for that kind of money, you just don't see two tone Chevies.

So, no Woody, still kinda halfass looking, but with all the CT Hispanic community giving me the thumbs up and smiling at the truck, not looking real hard.

Dan

I am actively searching for a set of the 18x7.5 factory ridgeline wheels for the Odyssey. If any of you guys come across a set for a decent price, let me know.

Billy_Bottle_Caps wrote: have a stack of receipts since new. Timing belt done twice. Brakes 4 times and of course tires and oil changes. 228K.

How is it that Odysseys seem to blow through engine mounts every 70k and a Ridgeline will go 200k plus on a set?