mv945
03-22-2010, 04:26 PM
Hi, I don't post here a lot but thought I'd toss this out here...
Wifes current car is an '08 Honda Odyssey on a 3 year lease. We are slightly upside down on it right now but who isn't.
The situation we are in is that in the fall we are going to start putting a lot of miles on this vehicle driving over a mountain pass (daughter will be going to college in Eastern WA). Too many mile for the current lease. We want to accomplish 3 things:
1) Get out of the lease so we don't have to worry about mileage as much
2) Get an AWD vehicle
3) Reduce monthly payment
To achieve these goals we are looking for a used (like 2003 - 2005) SAV. It needs to be reliable.
We currently have a deal tentatively put together for a 2003 Acura MDX that we have not pulled the trigger on yet. The numbers have worked out fairly well for this car and it will accomplish the 3 goals. The biggest fear I have on this one is that there appears to be a major widespread problem with the transmissions in these vehicles (basically all Honda V6 5-speed automatic trannies from 2001 - 2005) and that is sending up a red flag.
The other option we are looking at is a '03 - '05 X5. The wife likes the styling a little better on these. We are going to look at an '05 this evening. The price is a little higher but if we can negotiate it a little closer to the MDX we may do that. I haven't seen as big of a red flag on anything with the X5 except for some window regulators and CV joint issues.
Thoughts, opinions, suggestions?
Wifes current car is an '08 Honda Odyssey on a 3 year lease. We are slightly upside down on it right now but who isn't.
The situation we are in is that in the fall we are going to start putting a lot of miles on this vehicle driving over a mountain pass (daughter will be going to college in Eastern WA). Too many mile for the current lease. We want to accomplish 3 things:
1) Get out of the lease so we don't have to worry about mileage as much
2) Get an AWD vehicle
3) Reduce monthly payment
To achieve these goals we are looking for a used (like 2003 - 2005) SAV. It needs to be reliable.
We currently have a deal tentatively put together for a 2003 Acura MDX that we have not pulled the trigger on yet. The numbers have worked out fairly well for this car and it will accomplish the 3 goals. The biggest fear I have on this one is that there appears to be a major widespread problem with the transmissions in these vehicles (basically all Honda V6 5-speed automatic trannies from 2001 - 2005) and that is sending up a red flag.
The other option we are looking at is a '03 - '05 X5. The wife likes the styling a little better on these. We are going to look at an '05 this evening. The price is a little higher but if we can negotiate it a little closer to the MDX we may do that. I haven't seen as big of a red flag on anything with the X5 except for some window regulators and CV joint issues.
Thoughts, opinions, suggestions?