Thread: Buying a used manual Jazz

My wife’s current 2006.5 Jazz has been written off with hail damage.
We bought it with about 37kk on it 6 years ago.
At about 100kk the clutch started to play up by not fully disengaging.
I had a couple of mechanics look at it and then paid $1k to have it replaced.
A couple of months later it started to judder and worse the input bearing of the gearbox became noisy.
So I bit the bullet and redid the job myself and what a PITA, especially replacing the bearing which luckily had a YouTube video.
Anyway has been perfect since.
clues to problem were that it was owned by a chef who no doubt wore doc martins.
the clutch place must have hung the gearbox on the input shaft to cause it to fail.
I can see how it happened as it is very time consuming to do a clutch properly as you have even remove the crossmember.
My question is am I stupid to consider a manual used Jazz bearing in mind the lack of manual skills in the general population? If I was to consider one what would be the max ks to look at where someone could not do too much damage to the clutch? LOL
The auto Jazz is a CVT and the first model was flawed, replaced by a 5 speed now back to a CVT with the problems hopefully fixed.
regards PhilipA

Honda learnt from the issues with the first CVT. The start clutch in the CVT was the issue. An upgraded clutch is available.
Apparently the new CVT doesn't have an issues. We've had both the 2004 GD bought second hand as a manual (now with one of our daughters) and the 2012 GE, bought new, as the 5 speed auto. Wouldn't hesitate to get the new one with the CVT or the manual.