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Originally Posted by Xist
I briefly had a roommate with a Mini. During that short time he called a mechanic.
I watched some video where someone complained of his first-world problems of maintaining a luxury car.
My teenage Hondas with around 210,000 have cheaper maintenance than new luxury cars, even if I rebuild an engine!
I imagine that Lexus owners tell a quite different story.
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And here I think Honda's are overly complicated. Maybe it's just after 2000. Vtec is a PITA. The idle control is way over complicated and expensive. It doesn't seem to take much to have it running not right that has 7 possible failed parts all with the same symptoms. Each possible part is $100, if not $200.
I remember my 2000 Saturn had everything easy to reach, just a few $20 or less sensors, and it went 200,000 with just a $45 starter and $8 coolant temp sensor both that didn't take more than 20 mins to change out. It did need a clutch in there but that was before I owned it, still a reasonable job compared to my Subaru which pretty much needed the engine pulled.