10-08-2009, 07:04 AM
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My wife was visiting our new neighbours yesterday when the subject of older cars came up. She mentioned that we have a 1998 Honda Civic (which has 185,000 km or 115,000 miles on it) and were thinking of buying new snow tires for it. His reply was that we should not spend any more money on it and he strongly advised us to buy either a small new car or slightly used car. He said that he's seen far too many fatal accidents caused by old cars which are still on the road. Usually the engine is still good, but it's something else that's worn out such as the suspension or part of the steering mechanism, etc.
So now I'm wondering if he's right. Our old Honda has been excellent but I'm wondering if I should trade it in for a similar car that's (say) 2-4 years old? Or, maybe I should simply take our Civic into our local garage and have them do a thorough safety inspection of it?
We only put around 15,000 km per year on each car (our mileage is spread out between the two cars). But, when you add it up, we do rack up a fair bit of mileage per year due to frequent drives into the country (visiting family, going on hikes or driving to railway events
).
Thanks in advance for any feedback or advice.
Rob
My wife was visiting our new neighbours yesterday when the subject of older cars came up. She mentioned that we have a 1998 Honda Civic (which has 185,000 km or 115,000 miles on it) and were thinking of buying new snow tires for it. His reply was that we should not spend any more money on it and he strongly advised us to buy either a small new car or slightly used car. He said that he's seen far too many fatal accidents caused by old cars which are still on the road. Usually the engine is still good, but it's something else that's worn out such as the suspension or part of the steering mechanism, etc.
So now I'm wondering if he's right. Our old Honda has been excellent but I'm wondering if I should trade it in for a similar car that's (say) 2-4 years old? Or, maybe I should simply take our Civic into our local garage and have them do a thorough safety inspection of it?
We only put around 15,000 km per year on each car (our mileage is spread out between the two cars). But, when you add it up, we do rack up a fair bit of mileage per year due to frequent drives into the country (visiting family, going on hikes or driving to railway events
).Thanks in advance for any feedback or advice.
Rob
Rob
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