I'm planning to buy this 2003 Honda CRV from a relative. The history of this was it was bought from a buy and sell car dealer. after a few months had a problem with leakage causing it to overheat. It was sent to a mechanic and the cylinder head gasket was replaced. then after a few weeks it still have the same problem. So the mechanic replaced the cylinder head and the gasket. This costed around 60K in repair. The mechanic adviced to have it breaked in for 1000kms and have it tuned up after that. Right now the initial acceleration feels lacking (not sure how to describe it), but after that initial acceleration everything is normal. The mechanic told my relative it should be gone after the tune up. Im near the 1000km break in period (around 600 already) I was lucky because my relative wants me to use the car for a month to try it and then decide. I have driven it from manila to tarlac, tarlac to subic, subic to tarlac and tarlac to manila last week. And so far no leaks (just looking at the water levels in radiator and coolant).

I really want to get this car, but if this will give me problems very soon with major expenses then I would just let it go. My thought is that the problems have been fixed by the owner but someone told me that once the engine overheated it will be very risky as the sealing wont be that good compared to the factory.


Any thoughts?

P.S. I am not very knowledgeable with cars so if I said something technically wrong please correct me.