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Pkforbes87
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 04:48 am: | 
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http://oklahomacity.craigslist.org/cto/1386399108.html
Are you looking to buy your teenager their first car? Do you want to guarantee that they will not get involved in any street racing, "cruising the strip", or back seat promiscuity brought on by the appeal of a shiny sports car?
You're in luck!
I'm selling Rita! Rita is an 87 Honda Civic with 124,000 miles and change. She's got a 1.5L 4cyl and 5 speed manual. I bought this car about a year ago and have driven it all over the midwest to Nebraska and Missouri without any issues.
The good part about this car is basically that it will cost you $500 and get you from point A to point B. I've gotten as high as 43 mpg on the highway, and I average 35 in town - never gotten worse than 32. That being said, the good fuel economy is due to the 1.5L engine which definitely won't win you any races. I've always taken very good care of this car mechanically. I change the oil every 2000 miles, and changed the gearcase oil at 120,000 (it should be changed at 30,000 mile intervals)
Now for the bad:
A/C doesn't work - the compressor kicks on but the air doesn't get cold. I never even looked at fixing it because I assume that the system is still set up for R12 freon and I didn't want to spend the money to convert it to R134.
The brake light switch needs replaced - it keeps the brake lights on whether the brakes are being applied or not, and whether the car is on or not. I've been pulling the fuse every time I park the car. Again, I haven't even looked at the price of a brake light switch because I no longer drive this car enough to worry about fixing it.
If you're not good at driving a manual then this is not the car for you. The transmission in this car doesn't make it very easy to get into gear. Forward gears are ok once you get used to driving the car but reverse is a real pain every time. It's been that way for the past 10,000 miles since I bought the car and hasn't been getting worse, so I really don't think there's a problem in the transmission - it's just not going to shift smoothly.
Some times the stereo speakers all shut off at once, but if you kick the door panel on the driver's side they will come back on.
You'll be hard pressed to find any clearcoat left on the entire car. Especially the passenger side which has been sideswiped before I bought it. Someone patched up the scratched areas with what looks to be spray paint that isn't really very close to matching the bergundy color of the rest of the car. The good news is that being sideswiped didn't affect the passenger door - it still opens and closes without any issues.
The driver's side window won't roll all the way down any more. It just stopped one day with about an inch of glass still showing. It rolls up and down fine, just not quite all the way down. Yet again, it's a $500 car so I have never cared enough to tear the door apart and fix the window.
The "H" Honda emblem fell off the grill, but do not worry! I replaced it with a "Twin Turbo" decal from my roommate's Nissan 300ZX. The decal adds at least 20 hp.
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Fahren
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 07:36 am: |
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Dude - pimp that ride! |
Blks1l
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 01:53 pm: |
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Is that an MX6 in the background? That ad sounds like how I should have sold an MX6 I got rid of a year and a half ago. |
Pkforbes87
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 10:46 pm: |
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Yep that's an MX6. That's the first car I ever payed for. (parents paid for the Fiero before that) I put that car through a lot of abuse and it's always kept on going strong.
I recently sold it to another family member with specific instructions to contact me when he's done with it. I want to put it on a local dirt track  |
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