Repair-It

Adam wrote:

kevm14 wrote: I do have a 98 Civic EX auto anecdote and it's not good. And this was back when it was not even a 10 year old car.

Go on...

Well I am not 100% sure it was the car or the dealer. I think executive honda of wallingford deliberately sold a car that was totaled and put back together without claiming insurance. There was bondo, unmatched paint, and body bolts missing.. And the long and short of it is everything on that car failed, sans the engine. The tranny breaking was when I donated it for scrap. Very untypical honda experience, but again. I feel fault might lie with the dealership. Again, that place soured me to car buying. from any dealership, what more Can I add?

The engine was zippy enough for an EX, gas mileage appropriate. The interior was Cheap cheap cheap plastic. I had to keep the stock stereo via Y-cable attached even with aftermarket as the main relay, and dome light sensor were integrated into it.
What else,,, well again off topic, but the dealership stripped the threads on my oil drain pan.. I always did my own oil but they claimed I had a "free oil change" due my way so I cashed it it...
I was left with a broken oil pan, and 2 days of arguing with the foreman (keep in mind this would have been at least a month later as i discovered this when the oil was next due to be changed), they would only pay half the repair,, $400+ out of pocket on my end.

... Yeah sure, headlight harnesses melted, alternator went twice, power steering went, main relay went, blower motor went, wiper motor went (that was an interesting one, it broke in a way that would make the wipers go off when you went over a hard bump....scratching the hell out of the windshield over time), lots of other minor issues too, I just forget over time.. I think it only had 140 to 145K when I got rid of it... total garbage.

kevm14 wrote:

bill25 wrote:

Yes, and every other one I've seen has not had any of that strange seat wear or even the heavy steering wheel wear (light steering wheel wear, yes). So...I blame the previous owner.

We saw multiple pictures of wrecked STS interiors including the steering wheel issueand the plastic plate coming off the back of the driver's seat.

I'll give you the trim on the driver's seat. That does commonly break. But do also remember that all of the cars we looked at that were ruined were bottom of market cars that were selling for 8-10% of their original MSRP (in extreme cases, 4-6%!). Let's look at a bunch of everyone's favorite cars for 8-10% of their original MSRP and see how perfectly mint their interiors are.

Any STS for real money (like $7500+) was not trashed. If they were just shitty cars, they'd all be shitty.

Let's look at a bunch of everyone's favorite cars for 8-10% of their original MSRP and see how perfectly mint their interiors are.