Ok, so my wife wanted a toy, 30th anniversary coming up, and something much better on gas to drive to work occasionally, so today we looked at a 2003 Honda Accord EX coupe with 155k miles. Guy was asking 1500 and had it listed as rings worn out needs motor, puffing oil on heavy acceleration. Rest of the car was really clean, new paint job, leather heated seats, 5 speed. Fully loaded, AC worked etc. only codes were O2 sensor from cats being deleted. Had coilovers installed, lowered. Aftermarket air intake, but at least it kept the airflow sensor. Anyway I was thinking if I could get it cheap I could replace the motor with a used one for her but initially but it ran really well, had plenty of power. Didn’t act like it had worn rings with blowby other than the smoke from exhaust. So I got it for 1200. PCV valve was just stuck, not working at all., No more oil plume. Still have a little black smoke on heavy acceleration but once I throw a universal cat into it and hook the O2 sensor back up it shouldn’t be running rich anymore and luckily the coilovers had enough adjustment to not be ridiculously kissing the asphalt.
1200 bucks for marital harmony. 🤣🤣
If you know what you are doing mechanically then great have fun with it.
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Yea those coilovers are definitely getting adjusted back up. I ran the numbers I could but the original struts and sell the
Coilovers on it and make about 200 bucks. 🤣
good for you
You got a good deal and the other guy missed out by not correctly diagnosing his problem, which more than likely self induced by the things he did.
Thank you, I was referring to the better deal of Marital Harmony for 1200 bucks to. 🤣 You can’t really put a price tag on that. But yea, his misdiagnosis was almost as bad as the Nissan Versa I also just bought for 100 bucks. Drives pretty good except for the four flat spotted tires. I see a trip to Walmart in my future. They always look sad when I roll them out in a cart and don’t let them install.