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I think that I spent five or six thousand repairing my Prelude. Immediately after I purchased the car, I needed to replace the tires, brakes, and clutch, and since my mechanic persuaded me to use a clutch with a lifetime warranty, I replaced it twice more.
It also had ripped CV boot joints and I was told of the replacement boot kits, but told that as long as I do not hear clicking when turning, I was fine. Of course, once I hear clicking, the boot kits are useless.
The alternator went out and I do not remember what else, besides having a power steering leak. I kept replacing the fluid, often trying "stop leak," which was often non-Honda. Then I somehow tore out the cross-members at work, which my mechanic replaced, but then said that my motor mounts broke. I forget what he fixed after that, just that I went for an alignment and wheel balancing and they told me I needed to replace my rack and pinion because it was saturated with power steering fluid. I am not sure what other repairs I had in just two or three months, but each time the mechanics said that only the one thing was wrong, and then they found something else afterward.
Once I spent $2,200, my transmission went out, and then my car was towed. They wanted more money than my car would have been worth had it run.
I did not have the money. Had I the money, I did not have any way of getting my inoperable car forty miles to my home, I did not have anywhere to put it, nor any way to fix it. I evaluated my options, and blew off the towing company. They got a salvage title and I later paid the MVD $50.
However, apparently, the fine is now five hundred dollars, and I might still have chosen that over paying ransom to whom I considered to be car thieves. I asked if I could sign over the title. They said they would deduct $100.
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