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I bought a Prelude - $600 cash *UPDATED*

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Black88GTA

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Well, the Conquest is not going to work out for me as a daily driver. It would make an awesome project if I had a driveway and a garage, and a spare car to drive while I was working on it. As it sits, there's too much wrong with it for me to deal with. So, I'll be selling it.

I went out today and bought a 1989 Honda Prelude 2.0 si. It's not great, but not bad either. It has a problem with the idle - it idles really fast when you first start it, and then it rises and falls. Unplugging the IAC valve helps a little, but not much. Gotta fix that, once I figure out what's causing it. And the exhaust is missing, but they gave me a replacement exhaust when I got it, along with a spare front bumper. Brand new BF Goodrich tires on all four corners...you can still see the blue paint on the lettering on a couple of them. Kind of crusty aftermarket wheels. Alpine tape deck, power moon roof. Seems OK, if a bit boring. I couldn't pass it up for what I paid. There was a godawful ricer tip on it, I took that crap off as soon as I was near a wrench 😀.

Anyways, pics:

Right front
Left side (the bad side - note dented front fender)
Dashboard
Back
Seats (in AWESOME shape) 😀
A/C controls, stereo
One of the tires
 
That is is fairly nice condition. I got an old Sundance (91) with rusting rockers for 200. WIsh I could pick one of those up. How manyu miles does it have?
 
It's got about 117k on it. Yeah, it's an auto, but it was hard to find a decent deal on a good 5-spd car. It has two "sport shift" modes, whatever that means.
 
nice clean interior. could use a good wash+polish+clay+wax and a plastic polish+protectant(for extreior) though. and maybe take it to a body repair shop to get the dents out.
 
Originally posted by: Black88GTA
It's got about 117k on it. Yeah, it's an auto, but it was hard to find a decent deal on a good 5-spd car. It has two "sport shift" modes, whatever that means.
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Dayum, where are you at where you got such a good deal?
 
Yep...the pics right there are "as received." I need to clean it up and wax it....possibly look into replacing that front fender, and replace the front bumper. There's a little tear in it you can't see in the pics. I already have another red bumper, in fact - just have to slap it on there.
 
Originally posted by: mwmorph
nice clean interior. could use a good wash+polish+clay+wax and a plastic polish+protectant(for extreior) though. and maybe take it to a body repair shop to get the dents out.
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Why bother?
 
Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
Originally posted by: Black88GTA
It's got about 117k on it. Yeah, it's an auto, but it was hard to find a decent deal on a good 5-spd car. It has two "sport shift" modes, whatever that means.
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Dayum, where are you at where you got such a good deal?
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Long Island, New York. Usually everything around here costs way too much. I was actually expecting it to be really crappy when I went to look at it, but was pleasantly surprised. Has a full tank of gas, too. Motor ran great on the drive home, and everything worked...but the problem that's affecting the idle is screwing up how it runs, too. Acts like a bad TPS sensor, but I don't know. I just have to track down whatever is causing that and it'll be a nice driver.
 
Great deal... keep doing deals like that from now until you retire, put the amount you save vs. buying a new car into some sort of retirement/savings plan, and you'll retire with a lot of money. (It's odd that so many people never consider that. But, I suppose many people would rather drive around in newer cars. Oh well.) If reliability is an issue, you can always get a spare car to have around, just in case 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Black88GTA
Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
Originally posted by: Black88GTA
It's got about 117k on it. Yeah, it's an auto, but it was hard to find a decent deal on a good 5-spd car. It has two "sport shift" modes, whatever that means.
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Dayum, where are you at where you got such a good deal?
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Long Island, New York. Usually everything around here costs way too much. I was actually expecting it to be really crappy when I went to look at it, but was pleasantly surprised. Has a full tank of gas, too. Motor ran great on the drive home, and everything worked...but the problem that's affecting the idle is screwing up how it runs, too. Acts like a bad TPS sensor, but I don't know. I just have to track down whatever is causing that and it'll be a nice driver.
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Could also be a vacuum leak caused by degraded rubber hose somewhere.
 
Originally posted by: redly1
Originally posted by: BW86
sweet deal.
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go to automotive forums, IIRC, the idle problem is an easy fix by cleaning out some carbon.
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Heh, I've been doing some searching and reading...it looks like it may be easier than that!
I'm going to try this as soon as I have a spare minute. If that doesn't work, another trick is to bleed the cooling system. I might get out of this cheaper than I thought.
 
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