I'm looking to buy a Civic coupe, year between 2002-2005. Found some with reasonable price but mostly high mileage (around 170k) after changing timing belt/water bump @ 100k, are these reliable?

Please help with your experience or opinion.

Thanks in a advance.

 

civics can last a lot more longer than 170k, heard of people hitting 300k. but in order to get that the car needs to be maintained well, as in performing maintenance as the proper interval. at 170k your going to need to replace the timing belt soon

 

my 00 civic has 150k on it, only thing done is oil changes, transmission flush, new power steering belt. I'm hoping my timing belt lasts until I get my engine built(for turbo purposes, nothing is wrong with it now)

 

I bought my 97 Civic new and I had the engine rebuilt at 305,000 miles on the clock. A few years ago when I had about 100,000 miles, my friend bought an used 95 Civic with roughly the same miles. His engine sounded a lot nosier than mine. I always thought the previous owner never did the routine maintenance.

Try to buy a car with some kind of service history. This may be tough since a lot owners do some of the maintenance on their own.

 

My '95 VX has over 196,000 miles, and when I had the head off (blown head gasket from overheating - hence the reason I bought it in the first place) I took stock in the condition of the pistons, cylinder walls, et al. Maybe half a millimeter of ring ridge, and since the pistons had just received a nice steam cleaning (thanks to the overheating and popped head gasket) no noticeable damage either. The cylinder walls were just as smooth as could be with no elongation or anything out of the ordinary.

Cleaned it all up, had the head done by a machine shop (unwarped and valve job), new gaskets, and the thing is still tight enough to pull 38mpg city with me driving like a fool. I haven't done a compression test (maybe I'll squeeze it in this weekend when I'm doing the clutch that's most likely original equipment) but it all 'feels' nice and tight.

A buddy of mine has a couple of Civic sedans ('90 & '91) that both have cranked over 350,000 and are still running strong. They look like *** (he doesn't care) but they run great!

I'd say, "Yeah - high mileage Civics are just fine. But like with anything else, it depends on how it was cared for."

Good luck.

 

i bought my 2004 dx with 113,000 miles on it from a company that used it for fleet purposes all highway miles so the car was maintained well with records and the lady that drove it religiously took care of it that car was mint but the best part was the dealer connections i had i scored it for
$3,000 bucks.but i did do water pump, seals,timeing,plugs,trany flush,.

 

170k isn't high mileage. It's a Honda.

200k is high mileage. And even then, I wouldn't call it high mileage until around 250k.


If it's properly maintained it will be reliable. That is the exact answer.

 

i got a 2000 si. mine was NOT properly maintained. i did an oil change, changed the timing belt, did a valve adjustment. and replaced some of the ac components. it runs like new and it's got 160,xxx miles on it.

 

BTW - filled mine up today. 197,112 on the ticker. I had 232 on the trip odo (divided by) 5.9 gallons = 39.3 mpg... city.

 

Mileage is like age. If you take care of yourself, 65 is just a number. If you take care of your car, 278,335 is just a number. So is 231,697. Those are the odos on my sisters' Civics as of today. Both still get around 40 mpg.