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14/06/2021 10:10 pm
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I recently bought my first & used 2007 Honda Accord (silver, 2.4L, 4D, 110k miles) and I wanted to get your opinion. I bought it with net costing $5700. I was happy with the price, but it became double with the maintenance.
It has been just about a month I bought the car, got some immediate repairs done - upper ball joint replacement, front disk brakes, and rotors replacement, fuse replacement of AC, gas filling for AC. After driving from Philadelphia to Urbana, as I recently reallocated, I had to get the starter replaced as the car was not starting one day. The Honda dealer said the car needed some 100k miles of maintenance including - tuning of the engine, transmission oil flush and fill coolant flush and fill, carbon cleaning, etc.
After all the maintenance, the next expenditure reached near to $11k. The car drives well now, however, its interior components aging - the sun-shade is not sticking up well enough, the glove box doesn't work (such a carp :D), etc. minor things.
Do you think, I just got ripped off, or is it a good buy? Please share your opinion. How many years should I keep the car, and still have a good resale value?
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14/06/2021 10:26 pm
It doesn't sound like a good deal to me. It sounds like it wasn't maintained properly and now you're stuck making repairs that should have already been done.
I hate to say it, but this is why having a mechanic check it out before purchase is so important.
