1989 Acura Integra RS from North America - Comments

Replace clutch at 95,000 km's.

Replaced ignition coil at 105,000 km's.

Replaced brakes (pads, rotors, and calipers) at 120,000 due to previous owner neglect - otherwise just pads.

Replaced alternator at 135,000.

This car is fun to drive, gets great gas mileage, and is very reliable. It fired up at -40 degrees without being plugged in on numerous occasions.

I honestly believe that if someone hadn't have hit me, that I could drive this car to 350,000 - 400,000 km's with merely maintenance repairs.

My Integra has 8,000 more miles to go before 350,000.

I bought my '88 in 2001. It had 290k and ran like new. I put about $1000 on rims and tires, plus extra for tint and a pounding stereo. This car looked awesome, performance was awesome, gas mileage was good. It did die on me once out of town. I had to tow it home and spend about three days trying to figure out why it wouldn't start. It turned out to be a 1 cent screw that fell out of the distributor rotor. It took about 10 minutes to fix it and it ran like gold. At 320k the clutch was beginning to slip, but I still drove it like a race car. The only other problem was a small rust spot getting bigger in the usual Honda spot. My wife insisted on getting a bigger vehicle so I drove my little silver integra harder and faster than ever before. It would not die. I tried real hard to blow the motor and it just wouldn't die. I highly recommend this car for anyone, without more than one child, to buy this car and drive the snot out of it. I'm going out tomorrow to buy another one.

My wife unfortunately purchased a lemon. I DO find it hard to believe that no one on this site had similar problems. Her Acura Integra was a really SHARP and quick car, but when it stranded us on the road, twice, the problems and cost of them more than made up for it's performance pros! My mechanic even suggested taking it back to an Acura dealership, although it was already out of warranty, because he did not have the capability to service the electrical problems in the car! His estimate, which was cheaper than the dealership's, was around $ 1,000.00! The Integra actually started running fairly smooth again, just long enough to trade it in for a more "family friendly car, since we wanted to have more children. I won't even say what we traded it for because you guys would fall over! Well... OK. A 93' Plymouth Acclaim. Before you start blasting me, let me say that that Acclaim made it 95,000 miles before a trans. service and 109,000 before a trade in on an even more reliable Chevy Lumina 95'! That is abut 75,000 miles more than the Acura that gave us a monetary headache. American is NOT as bad as some foreign car owners say!!!

I have an 1989 Acura RS. I've had it parked in the brush/snow pile behind my house for the last three years as I have been using my truck. Anyway, the truck died so I went out to see if the old acura would start. Third crank and it fired right up!! After three years!!And it was -20 out!! I was shocked. Replaced the belts and lubed it up and now its ready to rock again. Now I can't wait to get into again, I forgot how fun that car is to drive. Needs paint, new rotors (later) and I hate changing the alternator on that car, but I have honestly not owned a more reliable car in my life.