Should I keep my 23-year-old Honda Civic or replace it?
I have been happily driving my manual Honda Civic for 23 years and it has done 67,000 miles. It is entirely reliable, sails through MOTs and doesn't depreciate. My father left me his two-year-old automatic Honda Jazz, which I don't want to use. I would like to sell it but my husband says it would make better financial sense to part-exchange it for a newer car to replace my Honda. Would I really lose that much by just selling it? How much longer might I expect to run my old Honda?
Asked on 9 February 2013 by NF, London NW2
Answered by
Honest John
None of this makes financial sense to me. Your Civic has no value so when something fails, such as the timing belt snaps, it will be scrap. You can either wait for that to happen, or offload it to a youngster and start using the Jazz.
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