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I loved my first car, a Honda Prelude, but I really needed to take it to a mechanic that had time to really look at it. Two different mechanics pointed out things that were wrong and the guy took care of some, but persuaded me others were fine. The clutch was failing after 56,000 miles. Nobody saw the ripped CV joints and the brakes and tires needed to be replaced far sooner than I was told.
My sister went looking for a car maybe a year after I bought mine, with the same amount of money. I think she was supposed to pay around $5,600 for her 1993 Accord EX (in 2,001), she financed, after telling me that she just did not want to drive the kind of car that you could purchase for that amount.
She was only partway through her payments when she filed for bankruptcy.
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