A Testament to Honda's Uber Reliablity

[Joey D]

CraigsList Find of the Decade: 930,000 mile '95 Honda Civic

There's high mileage, and then there's this. A 1995 Honda Civic is for sale in Atlanta with, count 'em, 939,899 miles. That's 200+ miles a day. Every day. Including Sundays. For 12 years. It even has a Carfax report from when the car had 907,000 miles on it. According to the seller, the car runs like new, with no leaks, no noises, no oil burning, and not even a scratch on the body. In fact, the only blemish listed is that one of the dashboard lights doesn't work, and that's only sometimes.

The car is on its ninth timing belt, ninth water pump, and fourth clutch. But the engine and transmission are original, as are the floor mats. The car even comes with records. The most incredible thing isn't the mileage, though. It's how the owner put the miles on the car: driving on business trips from Atlanta... to Seattle... and San Francisco. We want to know what kind of business -- or what kind of boss -- makes a guy drive across the country and back, and then some, every single month for 12 straight years.

To paraphrase The Proclaimers, if you buy this car then you can drive a million miles and you can drive a million more...

Oh my that's a lot of miles on one car. I don't care whether you like Honda's or not, this really shows what sort of engineering is involved with a vehicle. Yes I know you are going to say that it's mostly highway miles but still it's almost 1 million miles on one engine.

Oh ya here is the sales ad:

1995 HONDA CIVIC EX COUPE - $2300

It is about time to part with my beloved Civic which I had since 1995 and put many - I mean M A N Y M I L E S O N IT.I M E A N I T ! ! !.It is very hard to believe I know, but the odometer never failed and that's the actual miles - 930 000 ( Mostly Highway) miles ! .Yes it's true Hondas go forever ! ! !.The car is still in excellent shape - still runs like new - there are absolutely no leaks or noises of any kind - doesnt even burn oil ! The body and the interior is perfect -I never had it in accident and I still have the original floormats.The reason of the HIGH MILEAGE is because I travel for business very often from Miami to Seattle and San Francisco.If you look at the car you wouldnt believe the mileage.I have all the records for the maintenance - I VE REPLACED THE TIMING BELT&THE WATER PUMP 8 TIMES THE CLUTCH 3 TIMES BUT HAS THE ORIGINAL ENGINE AND TRANSMISSION ! ! !I SPOIL MY BABY AND CHANGE THE OIL ( CASTROL ) EVERY 2500 MILES ! ! !One of the dashboardlights doesnt work sometimes but thats the only problem.The A/C is ICE COLD and the tires are 7 months old.There is not even a scratch on the car.If you are scared of the mileage - dont look at the odometer! .Personally I think that my car will drive until One Million and One Hundred - One Million and Two Hundred - I am very positive and my mechanic agrees.Any way if you have any questiones or you wish a testdrive just e mail me and I will call you.

 

[JCE]

I just can't believe it. Honda or not, any engine with over 300,000 miles is by itself awsome...almost 1,000,000 miles? No way. I vote that it was towed behind an RV for a majority of those miles.

 

[Tornado]

Pft. A million? That's all? 190s pull that all the time. Especially the taxi ones.

 

[Philly]

That is one well taken care of car. True, Hondas may be incredibly reliable, but you have to take good care of the thing to get it to last that long. I wonder just what kind of shape the engine is in. It can't be bad, but I doubt it is as clean as most cars around the 100k mark.

Why doesn't he keep it to a million? I know I would want to keep mine until then if I was that close. He could probably get it there in a month or so.

I'm impressed. Are there other cars that will do that? Yes. Volvos and apparently Benzes could probably do that. I'm sure there are others that can as well.

 

[zdenko]

1millions miles. Thats like 1.6million k's.

I don't even see semi's with that much mileage in Australia. Thats like train milage.

Most I've aver perosnally seen on a car was on a Toyota Landcruiser it has 700000km's or about 440000miles. But at least thats believeable because its a diesel 4wd.

The exterior looks in to gooda condition considering it has been drwiving of freeways. The air would have wiped the shine off the side of the car by that time.
Now assuming thats a 1.6L enginge ba16 or what ever they are there is no way that is possible. Those things had such thin side walls it wasn't funny.

Anyway goodluck selling it. I would think that after driving a car that hard into the ground you would be taking your last trip in it to the local crap yard.

 

[YSSMAN]

Didn't some old Volvo do much the same not too long ago? I can't recall for certain...

...Either way, Hondas of ten years ago are still in fact much better than the ones we have today...

 

[Sakiale]

350000 mile 1995 Nissan Quest GXE!

 

[Philly]

The exterior looks in to gooda condition considering it has been drwiving of freeways. The air would have wiped the shine off the side of the car by that time.

I was really stunned by the condition of the exterior too. Maybe he waxes it after every trip once a month like I do to my car....

 

[Turbo Lag]

Wow i cant imagine this... Im pretty sure (as others have said) there was an old Volvo which ran a bit more than this...

 

[High-Test]

Didn't some old Volvo do much the same not too long ago? I can't recall for certain...

...Either way, Hondas of ten years ago are still in fact much better than the ones we have today...

It's a red 1968 p1800.

Mileage: 2,5xx,xxx. Original motor... Wow.

 

[Muzaffar]

Man.....that is sick! 930,000 mile with the stock engine and transmission? Well he must have been taking care of his car really. But he's selling it of? Maybe he knows that the engine could fail at any time now.... At least he ain't no ricer boy who says that their Honda's are very fast and can beat your Skyline and that.

 

[Philly]

At least he ain't no ricer boy who says that their Honda's are very fast and can beat your Skyline and that.

I'm sure if he was that kind of dude, the engine would have blown to shreds long ago. Can those things last longer than 50k?

 

[land sea air]

damn, the car I got my replacement speedometer out of had 330,000 miles on it but thats nothing compared to this, I've heard that if you can present an original Mercedes with a verifiable million miles on it you can get a new E class.

 

[Kent]

If I'm not mistaken (and on this particular fact I don't think it is the case)...
Al Bundy's Dodge made it to 1,000,000 miles and he was in the position to cash-in on it somehow (of course that didn't work out).
None the less, Bundy's Dodge got a million so I'm not suprised by a Honda Civic doing the same. 👍

 

[niky]

Although I do hold those D engines in high regard (I've seen one overheat catastrophically a dozen times due to bad hoses, and we never had to pull the head off of it... still ran like a champ!), a million miles is an insane amount to put on a small motor like that.

There's absolutely no way you could do it except on the highway...

 

[Flerbizky]

If I'm not mistaken (and on this particular fact I don't think it is the case)...
Al Bundy's Dodge made it to 1,000,000 miles and he was in the position to cash-in on it somehow (of course that didn't work out).
None the less, Bundy's Dodge got a million so I'm not suprised by a Honda Civic doing the same. 👍

Didn't he get to exchange it for a brand new Viper ?...

And then the deal fell apart - As usual :-)

 

[kjb]

That's amazing. My uncle has a 1994 Taurus with about 450,000 miles on it.

 

[Slick Rick]

The car must of had a respray and maybe some stone chip repair. No way could someone do all those miles and still keep a good finish on the bodywork.

 

[Danoff]

Shouldn't this guy be doing Honda commercials?

 

[1X83Z]

The car is for sale locally - I've considered going to look at it.

 

[Keef]

Any of you guys ever tried buying something simple, like main bearings, for a Honda engine? They're all different. Upper and lower for each journal have color codes that correspond to each other, and each one is a different size (but all engines are the same). I suppose Honda sized and balanced these things perfectly according to what forces are felt at each separate distance along the crank shaft. That's one of the contributing factors to the engines' reliability.