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I have to give Honda Credit...

PricklyPete

PricklyPete

Lifer
So as some of you may have seen from my A3 thread, my wife's car was totaled. It was a 2004 Civic Coupe...LX.. absolutely bare bones other than the automatic transmission. The car was fine on long highway drives...but otherwise I hated it. The engine/trans combo was soooo gutless. If we were dating when she bought this...I would have definitely pusher her in a different direction.

That being said, it was a 2004 with 110K miles on it. She bought it new for like $14.5K. The insurance people are giving us $7600 for it. Are you kidding...less than 50% depreciation from an insurance company in 6 years and 110K miles..freak'n tits. I may not like the car, but I'm happy Honda has done such a good job convincing everyone and their mother that they are such good "buys".
 
It was still worth $7600 because it had another 200,000 miles left in it. Which is roughly twice as much as you'll get out of that new A3.

A co-worker of mine just sold her 98 Accord with 380,000 miles, running perfectly (not that it didn't need a few repairs along the way). I sold my last Accord with 240K+, running great (needed some work but I beat the fuck out of it the entire time I owned it). The only VW product I've owned was a complete heap by 90,000 miles and it's the same with everyone I know who ever drove a VW product. Electrical problems up the ass, and those aren't just rumors because I've baby-sat multiple female friends on the side of the highway waiting for tows for their "cute" VWs with their "cute" little Jaguar-style electrical systems. Honda have done very little marketing related to their longevity, certainly not any more than any other car maker. They earned their reputation with 30 years of bullet-proof 4-cylinder cars. No convincing was necessary. They offer one of the shortest warranties in the business.

But hey, it's just the wife, so no biggie when she gets stranded at night, right?
 
My mom had her year-old Civic totaled a year after she bought it brand new...the insurance company gave her a check greater than she paid for the thing originally.

She replaced it with another Civic.
 
evident said:
i don't get the honda hate in the garage here.
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Its not Honda hate, its Honda Fanboy hate.

See louisss and other trolls that think honda is some magic car that is worth more than gold. Yet will run or just outright lie when issues such as their problems with Distributor, transmissions, etc… are brought up.
I have recommended NEW Hondas before to some. But the price of used ones is joke for what you get.
 
thomsbrain said:
It was still worth $7600 because it had another 200,000 miles left in it. Which is roughly twice as much as you'll get out of that new A3.

A co-worker of mine just sold her 98 Accord with 380,000 miles, running perfectly (not that it didn't need a few repairs along the way). I sold my last Accord with 240K+, running great (needed some work but I beat the fuck out of it the entire time I owned it). The only VW product I've owned was a complete heap by 90,000 miles and it's the same with everyone I know who ever drove a VW product. Electrical problems up the ass, and those aren't just rumors because I've baby-sat multiple female friends on the side of the highway waiting for tows for their "cute" VWs with their "cute" little Jaguar-style electrical systems. Honda have done very little marketing related to their longevity, certainly not any more than any other car maker. They earned their reputation with 30 years of bullet-proof 4-cylinder cars. No convincing was necessary. They offer one of the shortest warranties in the business.

But hey, it's just the wife, so no biggie when she gets stranded at night, right?
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Tell that to my GF whose glass transmission grenaded and stranded her on the side of the freeway.
 
thomsbrain said:
It was still worth $7600 because it had another 200,000 miles left in it. Which is roughly twice as much as you'll get out of that new A3.
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It's ok to like a brand, but to say ridiculous things like that... just shows how much of a fanboi you really are.
 
Malak said:
It's ok to like a brand, but to say ridiculous things like that... just shows how much of a fanboi you really are.
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Sorry, but the reliability of the average Honda will cause it to live much longer than the average VW/Audi with everything being equal.
 
Marlin1975 said:
Sorry, but the reliability of the average Honda will cause it to live much longer than the average VW/Audi with everything being equal.
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He is stating an Audi won't last past 150k miles, which is plain ridiculous. Your Honda won't last "much longer" than my Audi.
 
Malak said:
He is stating an Audi won't last past 150k miles, which is plain ridiculous. Your Honda won't last "much longer" than my Audi.
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I don't ever remember hearing someone say how long audi's last. If you talk to a random guy on the street they have had or know someone that has had driven a Honda over 200k miles.
 
I remember wayyy back my parents bought a used '83 accord. Some guy t-boned it and thus it was totaled. With the insurance payout we paid for something like 50% of a used '88 accord.
 
Malak said:
He is stating an Audi won't last past 150k miles, which is plain ridiculous. Your Honda won't last "much longer" than my Audi.
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Thing is Hondas are fine cars for what they're supposed to do. My brothers Accord EX is a fantastic highway cruiser, good seats, soft suspension, etc. Its just the owners think they're made out of gold which usually isnt the case.

About 70% of my female friends have some sort of VW, they all love them and haven't had anything go wrong other than scheduled maintenance or little things. Its a car, if you maintain it, it'll be fine
 
OILFIELDTRASH said:
I don't ever remember hearing someone say how long audi's last. If you talk to a random guy on the street they have had or know someone that has had driven a Honda over 200k miles.
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Have you considered that the type of person that buys Audi/VW isn't the type of person that goes around bragging about how they have 200k miles? It's a different kind of owner. It's a different kind of car.
 
PrPete, I sent you a PM. Basically, I am wondering if you should have received more from your insurance company for a 2004 Civic which sells for $9-10k around here (SoCal).
 
thomsbrain said:
It was still worth $7600 because it had another 200,000 miles left in it. Which is roughly twice as much as you'll get out of that new A3.

A co-worker of mine just sold her 98 Accord with 380,000 miles, running perfectly (not that it didn't need a few repairs along the way). I sold my last Accord with 240K+, running great (needed some work but I beat the fuck out of it the entire time I owned it). The only VW product I've owned was a complete heap by 90,000 miles and it's the same with everyone I know who ever drove a VW product. Electrical problems up the ass, and those aren't just rumors because I've baby-sat multiple female friends on the side of the highway waiting for tows for their "cute" VWs with their "cute" little Jaguar-style electrical systems. Honda have done very little marketing related to their longevity, certainly not any more than any other car maker. They earned their reputation with 30 years of bullet-proof 4-cylinder cars. No convincing was necessary. They offer one of the shortest warranties in the business.

But hey, it's just the wife, so no biggie when she gets stranded at night, right?
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LOL...I love your candor.
 
evident said:
i don't get the honda hate in the garage here.
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I'm sorry if my OP seemed bent toward honda hate...it wasn't intentional. I just didn't like her car. I have liked many Honda's in the past...just don't like any of the current lineup. We are going to test drive an Acura later this week to see how she likes it...we do like Honda as a company.

And it definitely would have gotten another 200,000 miles out of the car...and maintenance was DIRT cheap. Other than a set of tires and a brake job...it costs us less than $100 in oil changes and spark plugs.
 
lol at this thread.

but seriously, i don't get who out there BUYS the used civics etc that are ridiculously expensive for being "used"????? i'd just buy a new one, damn.
 
I'd say Honda is similar to Apple. They make good quality, well built products that have a premium on price, but people buy them because of the name/reputation
 
Malak said:
Have you considered that the type of person that buys Audi/VW isn't the type of person that goes around bragging about how they have 200k miles? It's a different kind of owner. It's a different kind of car.
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I haven't heard of many Saturn owners bragging about longevity either 😉.
 
yh125d said:
I'd say Honda is similar to Apple. They make good quality, well built products that have a premium on price, but people buy them because of the name/reputation
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Honduh owners aren't smug though.

My German friend said there was an old saying that each ring on the Audi logo means 100,000km, so supposedly they last 400,000 kms. That's about 250 k miles.
 
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