Honda Civic 1.8

On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:16:34 -0700, K. stammered:

Unless it's rusting, keep servicing it as you should. It will outlive you. Hondas are like that.

Just sold a very serviceable two owner 1981 Civic with 260,000kms all the log books.

With proper use and servicing they will go on indefinitely, the first non service items likely to fail would be battery, then exhaust. I have had to replace radiators because of salt damage. You sell the car when you need to change. If I was spending the amount that you are, then I would be looking at a zero ved car.

Mr Cheerful, when civic Has to go? And how old it will be?

Hybrid: 1.5 engine, VED =3D 15, price=3D 17.695, I don't like engine, I don't like price.

!serviceable! 30 years old car. good luck to the new owner.

• I think you are joking.

japanese cars are probably the most reliable on the planet. older ones in particular were very well built, back then they wanted a foothold on our home based market, our cars were very unreliable, theirs were not.

I am not a big fan of the Honda hybrid, but the toyota ones are very good and zero ved. you change a car because you need to. either because the old one is broken , or the ashtray is full, or it is crashed, or you need a larger/smaller, faster or more economical car, or you fancy having a convertible etc. If money is no object then change your car every one to three years.

why wouldn't money be an object, simple reasoning: why pay more if u can pay less. but as I thought, there are reasons why people sell 4 year old cars: ' change your car every one to three years.' Second hand car market proves inevitable: over 60% of people in the UK earns up to 20 000pounds/year.

again, do I like prices of new cars? sure I dont :-) do I like prices of second hand cars - a little more, but, I will have to put money in repairing box of rocks. Plus I take 100% risk the car was stolen or it's a clone (and 99.9% it was stolen). I can check if that used car had accident hiring a guy from aa. but that's it. what about engine... anyway, buying a brand new car is an option.

you repair cars - your needs are quite different than mine

was it diesel?

Japanese cars of that era were practically always petrol AFAIK, certainly my sister's civic (1977 IIRC) was petrol and only eventually sold because it was getting rusty all over after about 20 years, it still ran like a little watch.

Rob wrote 'Just sold a very serviceable two owner 1981 Civic with

Thats why i asked if it was diesel, u say no way. and I say: good luck to the new owner.

why? petrol engines are much cleaner running and have lower internal pressures than diesels, which is why they generally need less oil changes and will better tolerate missed oil changes.

I service several cars with over 250,000 miles on the clock and they have japanese petrol engines, they still run like watches and with the bonnet shut are almost inaudible when running.

why, coz I don't service them :-) hope 90% owners service properly their cars. some don't. about japanese engines - no questions as u know what You see ( I don't).

my family members say: petrol engine, 150k and that's it. diesel - depends, usually go for longer than petrol.

I had 2 petrol cars and 1 diesel. Diesel - no probs at all, ever. 1 petrol-omg. 2nd petrol, very much ok (I actually loved that vectra). All second hand cars.

from my pov, I don't want diesel at all, usually dumb they are :-)

petrol- =C5=9Bmiga =C5=BCe heja.

Thank you guys, you are the best, all very helpful!

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:03:57 +0100, K. wro= te:

Depends on what you buy, I've had several go over 200K without the head = =

coming off.

K,

I once had a Rover 416GSi with a Honda engine (petrol). I sold that car with 250,000 miles plus (402,336 Km plus) on the odometer and it was using less than a pint (0.56l) of oil between services and no repairs of any sort done to the engine itself (other than cambelt and oil/filter changes at the required intervals).

Cash

Anyone asked so far says they buy second hand cars (for example 3 or 4 years old).Maybe 3 of them bought new cars, and it looks like they also have problems with new ones, when something is broken or whatever. That's a fact.

And you guys here say the same thing. I am probably overtly cautious myself, as a matter of fact, I don't want trouble, but maybe not wanting trouble at all costs is wrong. It's about that 10000 pounds on any price. Not a matter of life and death, just, what for - and if for being a chicken only - 10k is a lot.

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