Hello all,

I am looking on buying a 1999-2005 civic for my mom. Is there anything that I should be looking for when shopping for a used car? (i.e, my 2000 accord needed a timing belt change at 100K).

Thanks for everyone's input

 

If you haven't bought the car yet (it's been a month,) I did the same research and found that this generation has tons of transmission problems to the point where people want to start a class-action lawsuit. The advice given to me was to go a generation down because of my budget, so I'm looking at 2000s. Maybe you should look a generation up?

Hope that helps,

Kristen

 

99-00 did not have the transmission problems you are talking about. only 01-up

 

people tend to trash civics because they are so light and you can throw them around. If youre looking at one in particular it may be a pain but try and look underneath the car for scratches or dents, people tend to hit a lot of curbs which can cause problems in the future with joints and such.. and then there is always this handy list. :P

http://www.samarins.com/check/checklist.html