My FRV story

My Honda FR-V story from purchasing the vehicle

My FRV story

Day One

We have bought this Honda Family, some say Flexible Recreation - Vehicle or Honda Edix how they called in Japan, in spring 2017 imported from beautiful country of Italy, with about 150K Km on the clock.

To purchase this 2 liters petrol Honda FR-V, shipped, taxed, MOT-ed, insured and put on the road in Slovakia costed that time circa 6000€. Thanks to the 10 years of Italian childhood it came without a single spot of rust.

The first year it was - well a car.  Than I had an animal-accedent and wrote-off my 2009 Mondeo 2.2 tdci thus the Honda become our daily, workhorse and shortly a family friend. We soon discovered that this is almost an ideal shifter for us - either for the shortest trips to the local shops, across the Austrian Alps down to the Slovenian sea side or to the Scotland. It also doesn't complain about our camping, gardening and building activities. The good old geisha starts on her first /almost/ crank in -20 or +40C, needs 1 Km to warm up, never moans, still looking sexi /at least from some angles/, quite unseen and damn practical, combining the little Jazz's city advantages with the CR-V's comfort, room, performance and mainly with one of the best engines Honda ever packed under the hood. 

Dead bicycles, 250 lit. aquarium, Mondeo left overs were kicked out and we accommodate her in the garage, to prolong her rust-free life ...

My FRV story, 2nd part

Day One

... so our version is the well-known K-series Honda powerplant in a sort of semi luxurious wrap:  cream heated leather, same door panels, carpets and dash, el. sunroof, bi-xenon, fog lights, heated folding mirrors, some anti-thief bullocks, 6xCD changer, and few other goodies. To the full load of my immodest imagination /not the car makers from that age/ it was missing a heated front wind shield /loved that on the old Mondeo/, revers-cam and sensors, auto DRL and a LCD android type stereo-satnav.

By now most of that stupidities were put in her. She also came without a tow bar. On one hand a possible sign of a healthy clutch, but when you are after one a head-scratcher like many other spares for the FR-Vs. 

Honda FR-Vs few and far between street occurrence  /not only in this country/  is perhaps the basic excuse to  launch this web  but I do admit, I am keen on this motor best out of all 2nd. hands I had.