1989 Honda Civic DX review from North America

Not very much, really. the water pump died once.

A computer problem lasted a few years where the car would overrev until a mechanic figured it out.

A couple catalytic converters.

The flywheel is bad, but it's been bad for ten years and still works (sometimes makes a grinding noise when you start the car; just live with it).

Front seat is thrashed.

Rotor died (but honda covered it under warranty; only time it ever stranded me.

Paint's peeling a little on the hood.

It's a nice car. I bought it when I was 25 and had it for the last 17 years.

I just bought a new car today after reading a lot of reviews so I felt like writing about the old one.

I've had 3 kids in the last couple decades and they've so far all been shoved in the back of the Mighty Honda (that's what my oldest used to call it, after the book Dan and the mighty Dump Truck.

Today we bought a goddamn kia sedona minivan. I would've bought a honda, but it was 10,000 more.

I was considering living in my Honda at one point, but that never happened.

I do hate cars generally, I've been a bicycle commuter for quite a while, but my wife uses this every day.

Same engine, same transmission. I don't change the oil every 3k, more like every 6 or 7. the car lives with it. it burns aboua quart every 1,000 miles. I just keep an eye on it. it barely leaks any coolant.

There is ntohing rickety about the car. It got badly hit on the freeway, rearended in 1991, but the thing is still tight, no rattles etc,, evern though the rear bumper is kind of mashed in. it did get a short on the rear lights.

I would trust this car. it just hangs in there. I don't see why it wouldn't last another couple hundred thousand miles.