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My 02 Insight has 52k miles. The battery warranty is good until August 2013 (10 years from the in service date). A replacement battery is $1900 from the dealer. Mine is a CVT. Just got a new cat under the 8-80 warranty, which is good until August 2011.
My 94 Civic VX has 48k original miles. I bought it wrecked with 27,492 miles in March 2008. It sat in an air conditioned building for 13 years, used by the Insurance company to train adjusters. Drove it on the original tires until it had 42 k miles. The tires were 15 years old when I replaced them.
I like the VX for the highway, and the Insight for local driving, but either can do both jobs just fine.
There are some trim parts on the VX that are no longer available from the dealer, but I would think that will not happen with the Insight for quite some time, since they made them until 2006 model year.
The battery on mine is getting weak at 8.5 years age. I doubt it will make it for almost 4 more.
I just have a backup car, in case something like the windshield gets broken. I understand they are a bear to replace.
regards
Mech
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