Hey all, I am looking for civic hatch, there are two car near my area. 1999 black 5speed with 182000miles. 1996 silver 5speed with 156000miles. the dealer is asking $4400 for the black one and $3200 for the silver one. Both body is in good shap and so is the interior. I really like the black one, but 182000 miles is a lot of miles. I know Honda make gooe reliable engine but who knows how long is the engine going to run. do you guys think is it worth to spend $4400 on a car with that much mileage? what maintenance should be done if I bought that car? thanks.

 

is the car going to be a basic dd, or are you going to mod it? the engine should still be pretty good, and if you need to swap it, you have lots of cheap/easy options. $4400 is just a touch high, see if you can talk him down $500 or so.

 

absolutely not. 182K and they want 4400?
Thats ridiculous.
I got my coupe 98 coupe with just over 80K for $4000.
Id keep looking or talk them down.

 

buy the cheaper one.cause sooner or later.
u are going to do a engine swap anyway

 

Wow, thanks for the fast reply. I want it to be daily driver for like 2~3 years until I save engogt money to do the engine swap. I used to drive a 1993 240sx, becuase the car is kind of old, some of interiors or whatever those are were loosing, everytime I pass speed pump or rough road, you can hear lots of loosing parts were sharking and annoying sounds were everywhere.... I just dont want that. What mainterance should I do if I bough thise car? thanks.

 

just change motor oil regularly..
i have a 92 hatch and its got more than 100k on the engine
single cam vtec..and no smoke..no burn oil..
and i have a b16a jdm sir II whole swap sitting in my garage..
planning to do the swap soon in the future.

 

Somebody loved driving, but the engine should hold up pretty well, stock?

 

Yes, It is stock.

 

my 92 hatch has 185,xxx...

 

thanks guys, I hope I could talk to them to bring the price down.

 

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shouldn't take that long... unless you're going b,h,f,k series... you can get a complete d swap for 500-800 bucks...

gl with he build and welcome to h-t

edit: if you get it just do a tune up... (i.e. flush all fluids, new plugs, new plug wires, new belts) and other misc things

 

Man dont worry about the miles..My 97 ej6 has over 220k miles and still runs strong. If you do the scheldued maintance it will run forever!