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Originally Posted by nightowl
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High mileage 2G CR-Vs give me anxiety, speaking from experience having been through Element ownership (very similar vehicle). Once all the suspension bushings go, and they will go, they're all such costly repairs and PITAs to press the bushings out, ESPECIALLY for the rear knuckle holy moly.
If I remember correctly, you can't get an OEM bushing for the rear knuckle, it only comes installed inside the actual knuckle itself, which is $$$.
Also the torque converters get all weird once you're near 300k.
Also, Honda loved fitting insufficient brakes onto all of their SUVs, CR-V included. My Element, as well as other high mileage CR-Vs I've driven, all had warped rotors. The rotors on my Element kept warping over and over and over again, it was the most fucking frustrating thing ever. When you change the rear rotors, the fronts warp, then the rears warp again, repeat by infinity until you get around to doing a TSX brake swap or something.