imadigitalgod

I was talking with a tech that works at KIA so this is why i am skeptical of what he said. I didnt go to KIA but where I work currently, the tech came to get somethin to eat so him and I were talking about my timing belt change and how much dealers charge. Then he talked about his integra that he had a while ago. Then he started talking about a honda with a million miles on it:

He said that if you keep a honda up or past 1 million miles(that many miles total, doenst have to be origional origional owner) and give it to "Honda"(corprate, or the headquarters, idk how to give it to them tho) then they will keep it, show it and give you a choice of any honda on their lot for free.

Has anyone heard of this?

mwieczorek43

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by imadigitalgod &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I was talking with a tech that works at KIA so this is why i am skeptical of what he said. I didnt go to KIA but where I work currently, the tech came to get somethin to eat so him and I were talking about my timing belt change and how much dealers charge. Then he talked about his integra that he had a while ago. Then he started talking about a honda with a million miles on it:

He said that if you keep a honda up or past 1 million miles(that many miles total, doenst have to be origional origional owner) and give it to "Honda"(corprate, or the headquarters, idk how to give it to them tho) then they will keep it, show it and give you a choice of any honda on their lot for free.

Has anyone heard of this? </TD></TR></TABLE>

Sounds like a great idea.
But do you seriously think this is for real? There's no way they'd do something like this...

**DOHC HaTcH**

damn... nope never heard of it but it seems like a lot of crap.. thats a lot of mileage

FalkenSiR

If you guys search deep in to the archives, you will find a thread a member on here started. He bought a civic with a lot of miles to achieve this goal. I don't know if he is still going for it or not, but you can contact him if you find the thread, it was on GDD a few years ago, I remember. His car had 300k already and he did a lot of hwy driving, it would be nice if he brought the thread back up.

Targa250R

Some courier up north did it a few years back. He had a '90-93 Accord 5-spd wagon and racked up over 1,000,000 miles on the original drivetrain. Honda gave him a new car for free.

Edit: http://www.vtec.net/news/news-...53478 There used to be a video for it, but it's not online anymore.

DaveSi677

ya I heard of it and it's apparently true, I do know that there was a guys in Germany that had a 92 GTI did a million Km and VW gave him a brand new GTI 04 I believe.

Dave

Nick M

I went to high school with someone who had a Jetta with 500k on it and Volkswagen gave him a new one.

FalkenSiR

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Edit: http://www.vtec.net/news/news-...53478 There used to be a video for it, but it's not online anymore.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Website says 615,000 miles

Targa250R

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Yeah, I had the story wrong. The car they gave him for free was the one that he put a million miles on. I remember seeing the video of it several years ago.

imadigitalgod

I am going to go get some things for an oil change. I am going to stop by honda to figure this out. My car has 107K miles on it and works perfectly. I know its a LONG ways away but im keepin my car as long as i can, hopefully till 1million miles . Ill post when i get back to see what they said.

I would see why honda would give a new car if they kept if it had over a million miles on it. What better else advertisment than to have your own brand car with a million miles on it when many domestic cars crap out at an early age(well compared to the life of a honda with that many miles). Just my opinion

Shouldnt be too long till i get back from Honda.

swatteamtimmah

I know this happened at a dealer near where I live they had a newspaper article on the wall of the guy who did it. Im not to sure if it was a civic though i believe it was an accord and he got a new one for free.

civiccoupe94

does it have to be the original engine/drivetrain?

imadigitalgod

i hope not, if i try it with mine, i think ill need a new one b4 then...this is my first stick so the first few weeks on my trany came with a lot of grinding sounds

still shifts perfect tho. anyways im on my way to ask them that also if this is true.

TurboEM1

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I would really like to know more info on this!!!!!!!

Does it have to be 1,000,000 miles? I see one of them was 615,000 which is CONSIDERABLY less then a million.

Is this a random thing Honda did or do they do it for any car that reaches that high?

I have a crx capable of this. Please fill me in with the details! I would love a BRAND NEW CRX or any new honda for that matter (s2000?)

civiccoupe94

I would like to know also. my friends dad had a 84 crx a few years back that had 420k on the odo, and the engine needed a tuneup, but the body was really bad so he gave it to the junkyard. if reaching 600k and getting a new 06 civic, i woulda took that crx LOL... put it on jack stands and let it run???

IHateJDM

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615,000 miles is pretty damn close to a million kilometers though, maybe we're using the wrong unit of measure?

wez

thats a good idea, i have a 91 civic with 250 000 on the clock, only 750 to go

sohcvtec1995

maybe i will go buy another civic, and roll the mileage forward. do you think they would be able to tell?

cyang08

hahah im sure they wont be able to tell. these days you dont know if a car has 50,000 or 500,000 on it.

liznadrian

highly doubt it

imadigitalgod

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Only if its a honda

my friends 95 chevy blazer has 140K, looks/runs like s**t everyone really wonders how that thing even runs still.

Earthworm Jim

I'd love to see it happen, although I don't think it will.

I've never heard of such a thing till now.

civiccoupe94

i think it would happen since honda engines are very reliable. theres vovlos that made it to a million, and theres a club tingee going on, its on their website. gotta be a shitload of driving to reach that milestone IMO.

Desired_Speeds

does it have to be original tranny?

volcomsocal

Sounds like when Al Bundy drove his Dodge for a million miles (not successfully because he rolled it over just a million) and Dodge would hand him the keys to a new Viper.