# Sell or Repair, 1992 Honda Civic

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/sell-or-repair-1992-honda-civic/1951>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** civic, honda\
**Created:** [July 19, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sell-or-repair-1992-honda-civic/1951 "2007-07-19T18:59:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ruth\_Hurvitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ruth\_Hurvitz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Ruth_Hurvitz)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sell-or-repair-1992-honda-civic/1951/1 "2007-07-19T18:59:56Z")

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My 1992 HONDA Civic is requiring more and more repairs. This past year it needed a master brake cylinder, allignment, brake light socket, and repair of a hole in the air conditioner system. Now I need new struts and tires and the air conditioning is fairly weak in terms of cooling the car. I had 3 accidents the first two years, non since, which may have left poor alignment. I am changing from a job which was 7 minutes away on city streets to 30 minutes on the freeway. Should I sell this car or continue to repair. By the way, I live in CA.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/1/d/1d47c66a543aa6c5a7873bb2320858f978ff52ed.png) [@system](https://community.cartalk.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sell-or-repair-1992-honda-civic/1951/2 "2007-07-19T19:11:03Z")

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If you’re going to be spending an hour a day in the car, and AC is a must, and it’s not a financial stretch to get a new car, that’s what I’d do.

Of course if you took it to a mechanic who would say that everything else is in tip top shape for a 15 year old car, then it might be ok to put $1k+ of repairs into it.

my bottom line is sell and get new if you can afford it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/1/d/1d47c66a543aa6c5a7873bb2320858f978ff52ed.png) [@system](https://community.cartalk.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sell-or-repair-1992-honda-civic/1951/3 "2007-07-19T22:06:19Z")

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Struts/tires are maintenance items not repairs.

However given your longer commute I think this car is going to be very tiresome. I owned one and found it to be tiring after a 40 min commute.