I took my car into the shop about 2 weeks ago (2000 Honda Accord with 234,000 miles on it). It's been shaking in the morning when I start it up and has been burning through coolant. I know it wasn't the water pump because I just got that replaced in January I believe. The shop checked it out and said it could either be a warped head gasket or a cracked head gasket. If it's warped, $1200. The guy didn't even give me an estimate for a cracked one :) . Since I only bought the car for $2900, there was no way I was gonna spend $1200 to fix that one issue. So I started looking into a new car.
I looked at a Hyundai Elantra, Subaru Impreza, and the Honda Civic LX. Long story short, went with the Civic.
As a side note, this car has an ECO mode which helps you save fuel by changing shifting, slows acceleration a bit, makes the AC work a little less, etc. I'll be doing an experiment where I drive on an entire tank of gas with both the ECO mode ON the whole time and with it OFF the whole time to see what kind of a difference it makes. Look for that in the coming weeks.
Here are some sexy pics:
Love pic 6
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