I am looking on a 96 4door Integra LS with 101k miles. It was crashed in 2007, and had 97k miles. The guy I am getting it from say that he fixed it up, and seem to be decent enough, and decent condition. It is re-painted and everything else seem decent. It drove fine in the test drive. Felt like it shifts fine too.

It has the following check engine light codes. I am unable to find much information about them.

P1792
P0118
P0700

I am getting it for $2.5k. Should I walk away? I am also looking on a 98 4door Civic LX with 105k miles for $3k. Everything is good with the civic, except, it came from FL and so has sun burnt paint, and decently badly need a paint job. This is a car for my sister, with a budget of $3k, it is pushing it, and she wanted it to look pretty. I want reliability more. Both have clean carfax. Should I go with the teg or the civic?

 

P1792 HONDA - Problem in Engine Coolant Temperature (ECT) Sensor Circuit
P0118 - Engine Coolant Temperature Circuit High Input
P0700 HONDA - Automatic Transmission Fault

walk away!

 

not worth it. For the price of anj ls you can find a gsr. igorka_91 here purchaced a 97 gsr with 115k for $2550. I got my 95 si with 95 gsr swap....clean for 3500. That was cheap 5.5 years ago.

I missed 2 gsr's on CL in cali. 99 gsr with 200k, second owner, older dude, never modded, had no spark for $999. 1996 gsr, clean title, was smoking a bit and needed some motor work, $1200.

Just look around. Take in consideration the $$ and time you'll put into that car to fix the CEL.

 

Could those codes come up out of replacing the front end with the radiator components?

 

drive it and see how it is.then work on the price.if u got a tech that would be good.

 

The car racked up a total of 4K miles in 4 years? It probably sat out somewhere for a long@$$ time, plus with those trouble codes, I wouldn't touch it.

 

This has trouble all over it....

"break the wrists, and walk away"

 

Agreed. I have fixed many integras myself and had them be fine, but for whatever reason any that I have looked at that were suppposedly done "right" by other people were junk. So many people leave the little things out that make all the difference in my opinion. I would say stay away.

 

Unless you live somewhere where car prices are higher than normal (such as WA) that seems very expensive for a salvaged car with a bunch of CELs. 4k miles in 4 years also doesn't seem right...

 

These are literally the easiest and cheapest fixes why would he walk away?

 

WTF bro that **** was 12 years ago. My teenage kid was 1 year old then!

Also, I'd like to see how you consider "automatic transmission fault" to be a cheap and easy fix.