Best advice here was to take it to a mechanic if you don’t feel comfortable doing an inspection yourself. Personally I have a '97 Civic (so 6th generation) owned from new and still used as a daily driver. The generations are useful to know in terms of when redesigns occurred. The 6th went from 96-2000, so when I shop for used parts any one of those years are in play. Not sure if the generation thing is more to do with Japanese cars. Anyway, my experience with my car doesn’t really translate to your situation. Have someone go over it and as someone said make sure to keep up with the change schedule on the timing belt. The car you are looking at has a so-called “interference” engine where the valves and pistons occupy the same space at different times. If the belt breaks you will be looking at a minimum of an engine rebuild.
mdixter
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