Registered: 28/08/01
Posts: 4806
Loc: East Bay, CA
This Honda is definetly the vehicle that I abused the most. I bought it for a measly $3800 from a friend and I drove about 100K miles in almost 6 yrs - mostly commuting to San Jose.
List of my abuses: - Drove with only 3 spark plugs connected for 4 months. Mileage went from 26mpg to 12mpg and pure gas fumes were coming out of the exhaust. - I striped the oil drain plug, put some epoxy on it to seal the leaky plug then made a mental note to fix it later. 10 months and some 11K miles later I finally got it fixed and was able to put in fresh oil (boy that old oil was THICK). - I blew out both CV joints from non-maintenance. The mechanic was amazed that I was able to drive at all - cause he said "the driveshaft was gone". - While I had the car, I went thru about 4 different passenger windows. (long stories)
In January of 2001 - I traded in this beater for $600 cash toward my new Xterra.
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