Honda abuse??

[princess]

What's the most abusive thing you've done to your Honda??

When we had the '82 sedan as our main car the poor thing was a work horse. We needed to buy wood to build a new fence in the backyard. We put on a tempory rack (roof) & hauled a BUNCH of lumber home. Luckily we only had to drive about a mile. She was so loaded down though! I can't remember why we didn't use the ol' Chevy truck. Probably went to & the starter had gone out. That used to happen sometimes. Or maybe the camper was on it. I didn't allow messy stuff in the "home away from home" very often.

That was a good car! We bought it broken for 650$. She was only a couple of years old at the time & was valued at 4500$. The former owner had neglected to have the timing belt done & at 130K it broke. So we bought it with broken valves. Rebuilt it one weekend, then put about 150K more on it before she was passed down for the "trainer" car as the kids started driving. The youngest traded it in on a new '98 Civic at 385K. They gave her 1K towards her new one!

I don't know which was more abusive.... using her as a "work horse" or letting her be the training car!! That last 100K was HARD miles!!

[BenjiBoy650]

LOL they gave her 1K? That's 1K too much, I want to hear what dealer this is and if they're still in business lol.

My worst abuse was probably redlining...once a 5 --> 2 downshift at 55MPH (1st week driving stick, missed 4th dunno how)....figured was just at about 5500RPM. Second time (and the last time so far) was when I got pulled out onto a busy highway from a stop and didn't see a Maxima coming full steam so I just went because that was the first time I actually redlined it on purpose haha.

I've abused it a lot daily too. There's so many steep hills around here, shift out of 1st at almost 4000RPM and you'd get into 2nd and it'd be at 1500RPM. I hate it when I have to rev like that going up the hill because it seems like its just making a bunch of noise and not much else.

[princess]

It was Honda of Concord! Her ex & her bought new vehicles the same day. His was a Nissan pickup & her's was the Civic. He trading in a "ninja" bike & she traded in the old Accord. We were in shock at the amount they gave her! This car had been so abused! When she took it over it was nearly flawless, then with her the ashtray in the back was missing, the PS door pocket was gone, a window knob disappeared, a butt had sat on the hood, it had been crunched & repaired 3 times..... BUT she did make daddy keep up the oil changes & services! It still ran strong! Nothing mechanically wrong with it, just very high mileage!