[quote=squat250]i have been having strong feelings of mortality in my car, as never before. I spend more time on a risky two lane road.
Have you all read the iihs mortality figures by model car? Honda Acccord does extremely well.
Course it may just be the broing ass safe dudes self select and all buy honda accords. Still, the numbers are the numbers.
Is it too late to put that drain plug in if I’ve already had someone strip the threads and an oversized plug is in?[/quote]
RE: drain plug..You probably need to get a larger drain plug than the one that was originally designed for your car…
Honestly though, after spending $3000+ in maintenance in 18 months on a car that couldn’t be sold for that much, it just ends up becoming a money pit… It doesn’t matter how reliable your civic is…It no longer makes sense to keep it… Just wait until you need to get your timing belts done on that car…Hondas will run you a good amount for that because what they have to do to get to it. So rather than actually do the repair work, just wait until the belt snaps and you have a catastrophic engine failure. Unless you’re good at doing your own repairs, getting stuff done like re-uphostery etc is just throwing money away.
I saw an add recently for a brand new Toyota Corolla lease and it was like $99/month, with a initial drive off of like $1200. I’m not suggesting you go that route, but seriously, you’re $3k in repairs of your civic could have paid for almost 2.5 years worth of lease on a new corolla. Sure, any car you can keep for XXX,XXX miles…If you throw enough dollars at it…
