Re: The OT place for OGs to BS w/o BS.
Posted: October 21st, 2010, 5:50 pm
as long as all the common issues have already been taken care of it's as cheap, easy, worry-free as any honda.
Need to be fixed from the factory:
-plastic engine fan tends to shatter and destroy lots of stuff in the engine bay. Remove the fan (there is a secondary) or replace it with an electric fan on the rad.
-plastic waterpump/housing needs to be updated to the aluminum ones.
-plastic radiator end tanks crack and leak. Most replace with an all alum. one. Not necesary, but is a good idea.
-upper rear shock mounts need to be reinforced (simple bolt on shock mount)
-rear swaybar mounts break sometimes. (another easy fix) There are others like this, but these are the major ones unless you're heavily tracking or doing donuts constantly.
-o2 sensors fail as often as on any german/modern car. 95's have 1 instead of 4. Yet another reason 95s>the rest
-VANOS unit will have to be rebuilt/replaced every 80k-150k miles depending on how much they are wearing. They start making noise and sound like a diesel, but don't really cause issues beyond noise.
Most of these issues have already been taken care of on most used ones you will find.
oil changes every 3k-6k miles with roughly 8 qts. mileage between 20-30mpg. No other real costs in normal use. If you do have to replace something parts are a bit more expensive than hondas, but for the most part still reasonable and sometimes cheaper.
Need to be fixed from the factory:
-plastic engine fan tends to shatter and destroy lots of stuff in the engine bay. Remove the fan (there is a secondary) or replace it with an electric fan on the rad.
-plastic waterpump/housing needs to be updated to the aluminum ones.
-plastic radiator end tanks crack and leak. Most replace with an all alum. one. Not necesary, but is a good idea.
-upper rear shock mounts need to be reinforced (simple bolt on shock mount)
-rear swaybar mounts break sometimes. (another easy fix) There are others like this, but these are the major ones unless you're heavily tracking or doing donuts constantly.
-o2 sensors fail as often as on any german/modern car. 95's have 1 instead of 4. Yet another reason 95s>the rest
-VANOS unit will have to be rebuilt/replaced every 80k-150k miles depending on how much they are wearing. They start making noise and sound like a diesel, but don't really cause issues beyond noise.
Most of these issues have already been taken care of on most used ones you will find.
oil changes every 3k-6k miles with roughly 8 qts. mileage between 20-30mpg. No other real costs in normal use. If you do have to replace something parts are a bit more expensive than hondas, but for the most part still reasonable and sometimes cheaper.
