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That initial estimate doesn't surprise me too much considering the amount of work required. I replaced a starter on a Passport several years ago for a friend. I jacked up the car and started taking it apart thinking it would be an easy job. Low and behold the starter won't fit through. I ended up taking the starter apart, feeding it through the hole in pieces and putting it back together up in the engine. What a pain, but it worked and didn't have any problems for the rest of the life of the vehicle.
My significant other has a Passport too. The last year they were made, and it has been totally trouble free for 98,000 miles (knock on wood).
The Honda dealer I went to for parts for that car told me they called them "Trashports" in the service department because they started falling apart around 60k. Luckily ours seems to be a well put together one. I think it's the first generation ones that gave them a bad name. The later models seem to be pretty well put together.
An interesting fact about the Passport (to me anyway), they were made at the Subaru plant in Indiana!
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1981 SC ROW Coupe
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