1991 Honda Civic 4WD Wagon
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
UPDATE, 2/24/09: We took the car off the road again last week at 313,213 miles, and just sold the car yesterday. You will be missed… Anyway, here’s a walk-around of my old 1991 Honda Civic Real-Time 4WD wagon. It’s old and beat but it still runs great, it’s has been in the family since new. In August 2007 at 298,000 miles I retired it and bought a new[er] vehicle. I kept it on the road though, and on December 28th 2007 it finally hit 300k miles! (see my other videos for that one) The next day it was parked and taken off the road for good. We thought… However, in early February 2008, my step dad slid his ‘04 Subaru WRX into a curb, messed it up real good. About $4,000 good. So we put the old reliable Civic back on the road so he can have a car to use while he saves his pennies so he can buy parts and do the work himself. So it was given a stay of execution until February of 2009.
IT HAS:
Original 1.6L 16 valve motor, with original head gasket!
Original 6-speed manual transmission
Original starter (thank you TufOil)
MAJOR THINGS REPLACED excluding preventitive maintenance and expected things. (i.e. timing belt or clutch)
Alternator replaced 3 times (1st at 180,000)
Distributor replaced because it seized up (common defect, replaced under Honda warranty. also that was the ONLY time this car ever had to be towed!)
Water pump replaced at 230k
Front axles replaced more times than I can count.
AC compressor replaced in 2006 (died a year later!)
Radiator replaced at 270k
Front tie rods, ball joints, lower control arms all at least once.
Front springs.
Driveshaft universal joint went around 265k
Brake master cylinder replaced around 280k
Front calipers replaced around 280k, then again 3k miles later (defective caliper, rebuilds!)
UPDATE: 5/20/08- We just replaced both front axles and lower control arms AGAIN. That was all replaced at the same time, only got 30k miles out of it, lesson here is don’t buy rebuilds installed by morons!
Duration : 0:4:54
AWD civic wagon doing donuts in the mud until it overheats…
too wet to get going very fast
just another trip down the strip in the 4wd wagon.
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