My beloved 98 crv has never given me trouble. I bought in 2004 and it had 140K kilometers on it. Now it has 300K. But since I have owned her not a single check engine light or any trouble. The only trouble I got was the ignitiion starter which had a recall. Lately my crv started shaking and I got it checked and all my bushings were shot due to age. I got the suspension bushings changed which include: upper and lower control arms, sway bar, shocks, trailing arm, rear upper control arms, ball joint cap, tierods, links. It made a lot of difference, it was like night and day. Now the crv drives like brand new. My driveshaft joints were also sticking so I ordered greaseable ujoints from rockford company. But the shop I got it installed from did a really bad job. They pressed it out, and hammered the new ujoint in like they had to catch a train. I watched online video called "staked in ujoints" and in it it said to clean and file the holes. But the shop did not do that. Now the ujoints are making noise while turning. Now I am thinking to get original japan No.10 ujoints from that were made a long time ago (high quality) and getting them shaved and welded in the driveshaft. They will last a long time. The rockford ones look light, but the japan ones are heavy and strong.

 

Noise while turning sounds more like cv joints or rear diff fluid to me.

 

rear diff fluid.. its about 40 max to change yourself with honda fluid. helped mine out alot as i think mines never been changed at 200 000 lol

 

40 max? its one 8$ bottle of dual pump fluid....

 

u need 1 and a bit to fill.. i flush out before i put new stuff in casuing a 3 of em. but it is always smooth

 

Sorry, youre right. i bought 2 bottles. flushed with half a bottle then used the other 1 and a bit to fill. so 16$.