GlennH

I'm not trying to start any arguments, but which year Civic's and CRX's are the most dependable and easiest for a shade tree mechanic to work on? What should you look out for when buying a used one?

Thank you

poweredbyhonda2

Well if you want the easy way and the most dependable and the most economical? It would have to be a 88-91 CRX HF. That motor is so detuned and so geared for everlasting mileage its hands down the #1.
With that 5th gear able to glide @ 100mph @ 3000 rpms and sipping gas @ near 50 mpg. That is a cheap ride. The wear and tear of that type of gearing is getting you a car that has almost half the normal wear as a Si model. NO POWER, but what im saying is that its 200k miles is like 125k of wear on a Si version of a CRX. So light like under 1949lbs I think. No power steering and some had air though. Its so humble of a car its so fun to drive and so cheap to operate. Anyone got a better one?:dunno:

shorty_boy

i agree with what he said --^ . I drive an almost fully stock 89 hf. Mine has air and blows icebergs. Betsie indeed has no power, i have about 62 hp at the engine and she bogs down once i turn on the a/c. I would say if you could find a 91 hf, the engine hp is around 90hp.

sherwood

uh.... the at best the CRX you're going to find is going to be 17 years old, at which point reliability is thrown out the window.

brandanintegra

i think the all around best crx is the 1991 jdm CRX SIR ,shit it has the b16a1 motor/whitch means you nead no motor swap , it has power windos ,a glass ruff , a back seat ,and its right hand drive/ pluss its 160 hp .

sherwood

You know that you made a fool of yourself there?

A-series

That being said, after I was done reading his post, I wanted one :chuckles:

Old yes, but I drive a '92 h:

This won't help much but if not all CRX models have that jacked-up steering wheel that connects only at the bottom, then I'd say go for that 'cause I find it actually makes it hard to drive the car.

IMO the best Civic (USDM) as far as being not-slow and relatively cheap would be a Del Sol VTEC or 6th Gen Si.
All civics are dependable if kept up properly which can be a little expensive once they pass 10yrs. As far as the ease of working on them there isn't really a huge difference in most cases - don't know about the newer ones though.

gingas

Yeah, the best USDM is the 99-00 Si. You can do alot to a CRX. It's up to you which Civic you want.
Good Luck

1WIKID1

I work at a honda dealership. We have a customer with a 91 civic del sol with 489,000 original miles,NO JOKE! If it helps your decision.

daveb91

91 civic delsol??????