My car has 163,000. I was wondering what problems I can expect to come up in the next 10,000 plus miles.The car was driven by a grandma before me and it has no oil leaks at all plus the clutch, timing belt, and water pump have been replaced. Im in college and I can ethier get rid of the prelude now for a civic hatch with a 100,000 or keep my Prelude until it dies. Witch one is going to cause the least amount of problems? Also is it safe to take it to the redline now that it has 163k or Im I going to blow it up if I get on it hard?

 

I would keep your Prelude. Just stay up with the maintenence (oil changes, tune ups, tires, brakes, etc) and you should be fine for another 100k. Random things always happen like alternators, window motors and such, but that's a given over time.

IMO, you should take it to redline every now and then to keep things from building up as bad (like carbon). It shouldn't hurt anything as long as you don't go past redline.

 

my 93 si vtec has like 165k and no problems here...i hit vtec like 5 times a day lol...

 

keep the lude

 

Thanks for the answers guys. I guess Im keeping the Lude!

 

you could get 300000 if you take good care of it. My 88 had 400000 kms and I only traded it in (for 500 off my 4th gen prelude) because it had a huge crack in windshield and had a bad leak in gas tank.