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Old 12-08-2003, 09:39 AM
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Mystery Honda Fluid?

Does anybody here own a CR-V? I have been advised by an online CR-V owners group that the 'binding' my mom's CR-V is experiencing in tight turns is caused by contaminated fluid in the rear diff/MPT. I suspect that this fluid is just ATF, but the people on this group are brainwashed and swear that it's a magical concoction only available at Honda dealers. If I don't find anything out to the contrary, I guess I'll have to tell my mom to take it to the dealer.

And let me just say that I find this CR-V owners site a tad frustrating. On this site, if I want to know anything about the SVX, I can find out. Somebody on here has probably performed the repair I want to do. But on the CR-V site, they all recite the Honda propoganda and swear that anything but Honda-brand lubricants, fluid, engine oil and coolant is downright damaging to their car.

<sigh>

Don't tell them I said that. They seem like a very nice group of people - they're just not into servicing their vehicles like many of us are, and therefore they don't seem to know them as well.
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