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Older car safety concerns?

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Old Nov 22, 2012 | 03:36 PM
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Default Older car safety concerns?

We own 13 years old Accord with 13x,xxx miles and wonder about the wear an tear on the front end (suspension, ball joins, bolts, and nuts).

I wonder if there is anything that can catastrophically fail.

Should I have replace all the bolts, nuts, ball joins, and potentially struts?

Any experience in this area?

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Old Nov 22, 2012 | 03:41 PM
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Default Re: Older car safety concerns?

if you have worn parts then replace them.
its sort of the same with all cars actually.

and that's not an old Honda anyway.
I drive a 25 year old honda with 265k miles on it with original hardware and bushings on the front end.
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Old Nov 22, 2012 | 09:32 PM
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Default Re: Older car safety concerns?

Just make sure the boots on the ball joints arnt torn or bushings are bad. You dont need to replace bolts unless factory calls for it even then most times I dont.
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