Denverdave
Resident Ragamuffin
Other than your current strange noise & lock cylinder issue, it sounds like your repairs have been mostly just regular maintenance items. I know that upkeep expenses never have good timing but the more you drive & the more time goes by, the more things wear. Go to a good independent mechanic and show them your current strange noise to see if it's something serious or nothing much at all.
the place I usually go will do a free Transmission performance check. There was no sound when I first drove to work this morning, but it showed up after my first full stop at a red light. I think I'll schedule this in tomorrow morning.
Get a Honda and you'll have no issues
oh wait...............
seriously just sounds like bad luck/coincidence. My Acura has been rock solid for 17 years...sometimes it's not planned obsolescence it's just bad luck
Aside from this the CRV has been great. Well.....except the AC compressor blowing up four years ago. Honda lost a class action lawsuit becasue of how bad their AC compressors were. Unfortunately I am not the original owner so it did not help me.