Car Opinion----Inspired By The Clash Song --- Should It Stay or Should It Go

The Issue
I have this car and am moving 700 miles from a small town to a large city. Not many cars in the paper here.... so low supply...but not sure of demand either. It's a college town though. If I sell it here I will have to hit the buying trail after the move to get another basic transportation vehicle. If I decide to sell I will first have to deal with the selling... then. later.... with buying. I paid $2000 for it.

The Car
'91 Honda Civic DX 1500
160,000 miles, cleanest engine I have seen for a car that old. Looks great, Runs really well. Tires decent, no leaks, shimmies a bit at 60. Small crack line coming down from top of wind shield. It does have some sort of muffler issue... there's a hole somewhere.

Thoughts anyone?????

How's it smell?

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Originally posted by Jack

How's it smell?

oddly enough... not bad. the dealers dangly thing scent wore off after I burned some incense in it!!!

i was gonna buy similar to that, had a new JDM engine 86 k's onit body had 300k. he asked for 1800 cad. new cluthc radiato everything and drove like a charm. but my parents said it looked like it was gonna break down.

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Originally posted by caribonz

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How's it smell?

oddly enough... not bad. the dealers dangly thing scent wore off after I burned some incense in it!!!
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If she smells good, she's a keeper.

i paid 300$ for a 92 dx with 200,000 miles on it. nothing wrong with it at all no rust super clean. i put another 90,000 miles on it too with out replacing anything untill my girlfreind wrecked it. that seems to happen alot. i think i got it cheap cause the millage on it, but these cars seem to last forever engine wise.

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Originally posted by Jack

[reply=caribonz]
[reply=Jack]
How's it smell?

oddly enough... not bad. the dealers dangly thing scent wore off after I burned some incense in it!!!
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If she smells good, she's a keeper.
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Keep her, hell I married her.

Wait, we are talking about women right ?

Civics will drive until the wheels fall off. Done school? And do you have a girlfriend? Important questions!!

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Originally posted by caribonz

The Issue
I have this car and am moving 700 miles from a small town to a large city. Not many cars in the paper here.... so low supply...but not sure of demand either. It's a college town though. If I sell it here I will have to hit the buying trail after the move to get another basic transportation vehicle. If I decide to sell I will first have to deal with the selling... then. later.... with buying. I paid $2000 for it.

The Car
'91 Honda Civic DX 1500
160,000 miles, cleanest engine I have seen for a car that old. Looks great, Runs really well. Tires decent, no leaks, shimmies a bit at 60. Small crack line coming down from top of wind shield. It does have some sort of muffler issue... there's a hole somewhere.

Thoughts anyone?????

well heres some buyer advic for your next car:
Do the cluch test i.e stall the car if it keeps moving that has gone demand they replace that before sale or lower price.Get dealer to rev it look for blue smoke out the tail pipe.if there is then might be buring oil or needs some engine work. and all the papers look good with service history take it...but play hard ball and get them to do a oil change before sale, It's only fair car that amount of miles dealers will always crack for that sale. if push them hard I should know I am one!

@caribonz - Rotate and balance your tires... that should stop the shimmy at 60

hard to say what to do... no matter where you go... your not gonna get more than a few hundred bucks for it.. You know this car and you trust it... why get rid of it? 160k on civic that was taken care of... should have a good amount of life in it.

my 2 cents

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Originally posted by ++speed++freak+

dealers will always crack for that sale. if push them hard I should know I am one!

thanks for the replies... yeah.. i think she's a keeper!! keeping fingers crossed for the drive across kansas on monday.. of course the weather is not looking so warm that day (it's been really nice most of the winter).