The Civic hits 150K!
By some amazing feat I've managed to keep a car —in this case my 1998 Honda Civic EX coupe, intact for the outlandish period of 11 years and 1 month and captured it as it hit 150,000 miles. Ironically right in front of the GM plant on River Road that I loathe for oh, so many reasons:
For those that know of some of my past driving exploits (see September 10, 1986), this is a rather remarkable feat for me. It's certainly the longest period of time I've owned a car and about double the mileage of the most I've ever accumulated. We've talked about replacing it a few times over the past several years, but it's simply a great car. But the time will come for it to go, as it would be nice at this point in my life to have a 4-door car. But it's hard to stomach a new car payment after being without it for the past 7 years that this one has been paid for. It no longer rides quite like a new car, but it's very well maintained and averages 33mpg (30ish in the winter, 36 in the summer!) And although it doesn't shine or smell like a new car, and it only has a couple of small rust spots, it's still in good condition.
It's due for an oil change and the high speed front-end shimmy is back again, so I believe the left front tire also needs to be replaced. And earlier this week the wipers started to operate very slowly when you first turned them on. And of course today when I was out it poured rain and they won't work at all now. Thank God for Rain-X, one of the greatest inventions ever even with working wipers. So obviously a new wiper motor is needed. But even with this pending maintenance it's far cheaper than replacing it. And now part of me wants to push it to 200,000 miles. It's certainly a very realistic and doable prospect, it is a Honda after all. So even if I do decide to move —that's a little more than another 3 years of driving at my current rate, somebody is going to get a very low cost, but awesome used car if I do.
Roll, Baby, Roll!!!
