Honda's reputation for reliability is well earned.

[Royal Tiger]

Almost as if Honda is the Apple of moto manufacturers.  

Exactly.



Posted using my iPhone.

D'uh, say what?!  

[Rogue]

I've owned three Honda VFR's.  One was in the 1980's--my first Honda.  Another was an '01.  The next an '07.  Not a single one of those gave me any problems...not ONE problem.  Zero.  All they needed was the standard maintenance....and my 1986 was rarely maintained by me either (was a kid didn't know anything).  Sister has had three Acuras.  Both pushed 200k miles.  Regular maintainance and wear items were done...never had any problems.  Brother in law had three Honda's (Civics & Accords).  His last Accord needed an engine rebuild at 400k miles but never had any single component failure except the clutch at 150k miles.  His son now drives it to college.  I regularly check JD Powers and Associates initial quality ratings--Honda consistently well above average in initial quality for years.

So I'm a Honda fanboi because of the above.

OTOH, my '06 Buell XB12R had a few parts failures on it that needed replacements within the 30k miles.  My Hayabusa started to burn oil at 40k miles even after a very careful break-in procedure by me.  My '01 Bandit burned lots of oil too at less than 20k miles.  So I will then say Buell's are low quality and Suzuki's are oil burners and all of them are POS.  [seriously no, I'm a Buell fanboi because I love the brand anyway]

Some of you people are just haters.  But that's okay because I hate H-D.  It all evens out at the end.

  

[Silverbird]

At least you know your Honda's stator will go out.  Replace the R/R with a proper unit, carry a spare stator in the trunk and good like finding anything else as reliable.

[Slartibartfast]

Ironically, the best fix for the R/R failure seems to be replacing it with one of Yamaha's regulators.

Still wouldn't have anything else under me though.

[atadaskew]

I hate H-D.  

  

What did HD do to you?
Posted on: January 08, 2013, 03:23:50 PM

But after my cage crash in a '99 Nissan Maxima, I'm not going back to small cars,  If I was in that Civic - I wouldn't be here to type this, but that's not a knock on Honda - any small car would not survive a head on crash on a interstate.

Will be buying a another Maxima or a SUV

I find this funny seeing we ride moto bikes with not much worry about how they perform in a crash.
Posted on: January 08, 2013, 03:25:57 PM

 

Oh yeah then there was the Gold Wing whiners club chiming in on frame cracks, engine issues etc.   Same haters  club whined about the weight of the thing too!   Wasn't it obvious before they bought it?  

To be fair, I did read about the weight on the stat sheet for my 2001 Wing 1800, so I was expecting that.
But no where in my owner's manual did it warn me that my frame would crack and that the motor would overheat.

[atadaskew]

Type "CBR250r Stalling issue" into google...

Even Motorcylist magazine's long term CBR 250 quits randomly.  Honda is 'investigating'.
Of course, mo-magazine's is the first that they have heard of...
 

and

 

plus some
 

[Silverbird]

I wouldn't buy a Honda built in the last few years. Their priorities are no longer what they used to be, have you seen the commercials? This is for a Civic, but if they want to get into the skateboard business then F*** 'em

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7vhqfErOlI