My condolences. I've never had a Honda, but got rid of my 87 Celica at roughly 345k, it was leaking oil like crazy but still running. I hope i get another 100k out of my Corolla.

my wife had a civic, i hated that thing.I must admit they are great engines but the rest of the car was a peice of junk. Sold it last summer thankfully.

A customer rolled in today with his 07 Camry. Said the brake light was coming on when slowing down. 67000kms. Nope, not the brake light. How about the oil light? No oil on the dipstick. No oil change in 25k...

Here's a good one.
An old lady who "no speek english" came in the other day complaining of "no air warm" and "no air from here" as she pointed to the centre vents. I showed her how to turn the dial to the red (for warm) and how to turn the other dial so it points to the center vents.
How do these folks get drivers licenses?

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my 95 civic blew a head gasket (i think) yesterday. exhaust coming out the rad cap and next to no coolant is my clue. with over 350 k my mechanic said if he owned it he wouldn't fix it. so on monday i pick up my new to us 2000 saturn, 4 dr, 5 sp, air. silver. only option i can tell is air, which i'm good with.

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Had an 89 Civic, never a problem, but couldn't pass the Out Of Province inspection, Drove it til I had 3 no registration tickets the sold it to a friend for a parts car.  Also had an 86 Corolla GTS, AWESOME car, very quick and easy to slide around in...LOL, then came my 94 Saturn, had 325Kms , on her and ran great, that was also an excellent winter beater...

Don't get me wrong, I do have some really good customers from all over the world. Some have some interesting stories on how they got here.

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A customer rolled in today with his 07 Camry. Said the brake light was coming on when slowing down. 67000kms. Nope, not the brake light. How about the oil light? No oil on the dipstick. No oil change in 25k...

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I was wondering if you were at work today.  My wife and I finally went to check out the new Tepperman's this morning.  I thought i'd go over and look at some of the cars on the lot.  Those new Corolla's look huge compared to my 01'.  They come with traction control optional?  My wife still likes the Prius, i'm just not a fan at all.  Saw a gold Camry in the back that i liked.

dragged it home tonite. probably stay there still spring, once scrap goes back up.

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Here's a good one.
An old lady who "no speek english" came in the other day complaining of "no air warm" and "no air from here" as she pointed to the centre vents. I showed her how to turn the dial to the red (for warm) and how to turn the other dial so it points to the center vents.
How do these folks get drivers licenses?

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When I was in the bodyshop at the local GM dealer an old woman came in with a 68 Pontiac Parisenne 2-door hardtop 327 auto, she's tired of driving the big car, to hard on gas, always tuning it up, starting to rust (this is in the early 1990's) so a salemen sells her a new pontiac sunbird which she just loves-the saleman tells her how great these cars are compared to the old ones-you don't have to do anything they are fully electronic and the car has a great warranty if something did go wrong. The old 68 sells the first day on the back row-one week later she is back crying car on the hook it won't run no way no how, cranks and cranks but thats it ! how disappointing after having that 68 all those years-mechanic checks it out only to tell her theres no gas in it ! she says "no need gas fully electronic !" this is a true storey !

haha. The funny thing is this guy didn't have any look of shock. No expression at all. 32 grand and doesn't change the oil. Crazy! He wasn't some young kid either. You should have seen the air filter...shame....