Fear over new purchase of 2001 Civic DX

Jul 19, 2005 4 Replies
M

Hi there,



Question.... I have just bought a new 2001 Honda Civic dc with 100,000 (even) km on it. It runs great, but it cost me a fair bit of money (I'm a new grad) and I can't afford realy to put anything more into it. I don't want to have payments, so I cashed in some RRSP's to pay for it.



I am scared though. I am scared that the timing belt is going to break or something else badwill happen to force me to dump more $$ into it.



Is it a safe car? Is it a safe buy? Should I sell it and get a fair price.



Please help as I feel sick about all of this...



Derek



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C
100k is about time for a t-belt job.

You should check into getting this replaced soon. If you need to save some $$ try and find a Honda shop (not dealer) to get the job done.

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J

100k /miles/, not kilometers. 100k miles = 160k kilometers.
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J

eh? if the car has 100k km, and the shop manual says the belt needs to be changed at 160k km, the op has 60k km of driving left, right?

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