200 Series Quality/Reliability and Next Vehicle

[stonepa]

My cousin reached out to me about 6 months ago and was just about to trade his wife’s 2024 Honda passport (with 15k miles) for a 2015 LC with ~110k miles on it. He could have sold the Honda for about (~$40k) price of the LC. He was completely convinced that in the long run the LC would be vastly more reliable. I told him the hard truth, the 10 years from now the 2024 Honda will highly likely have been more reliable and much less expensive cost of ownership then the 2015 LC. But if you really want a 200 don’t justify it to your self based on a most likely false belief.

Maintenance may be cheaper for a Passport (maybe) although I have not found that to be true. Oil changes, plugs, fluid changes, etc are the same for like intervals and oil costs. Brakes and batteries are the same as well. Of course, the Passport does not have a transfer case so no maintenance there.

Reliability wise, my well maintained 2015 LC200 has been perfectly reliable (i did need to replace the rear AC o rings) even with almost 200k miles So my 200 has been extremely reliable. If we were talking about the 100, I would agree with the higher cost given the additional maintenance requirements like hand packing the wheel bearings.