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Originally Posted by Ecky
The 95-2002 Corolla all use the same engine, and I consider it to be slightly more technologically advanced than the Civic engines in the same time period. I like the Civics though because you can get a 1.5L engine instead of the 1.8. You can't go wrong with either.
My father-in-law's 96 Civic just died, transmission finally failed at 278,000 miles. He never had to do much maintenance to it, and when I asked him how often he changed the transmission fluid he asked, "You're supposed to change that?"
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lol, ok thanks. but should i stay away from civics with cvt trannys?
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Originally Posted by LeanBurn
Finicky as in quirky, sometimes they just don't run right, they have problematic EGR valves and injection issues, electrical irritations. You have to tinker with them sometimes. When they run right they are awesome...but when they don't it can be irritating. If you go to Freds TDI page you'll understand in less than 5 minutes.
As far as timing belts are concerned and price...that is a VW thing, The belt itself is cheap ~$100 IIRC...but its the labor, everything is real tight in there and you have to get everything just right because it is an interference engine.
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ohh ok thanks. but any other suggestions for civics/corollas as to which models to look at?