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Cost me $22k brand new. Did not buy it thinking I would be an Uber driver. After multiple trips to Florida and New York, part and full time Uber driving, over 15000 fat assed passengers in my car (a few of them bare asses during Caribana and Pride) my beautiful 2015 Honda Civic has passed on. It had a full life reaching just shy of a 405000km. Fluid changes, brakes and a new water pump were its only medication.

It literally paid for itself 10 times over. I know its dumb to mourn a car but I did have a tear in my eye when it passed (also, I was 5 min away from the shawarma place I was headed to so my emotions were in overdrive)

Rest well my old friend. I feel good knowing its parts like the airbags will go on to hopefully save the lives of others

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Cost me $22k brand new. Did not buy it thinking I would be an Uber driver. After multiple trips to Florida and New York, part and full time Uber driving, over 15000 fat assed passengers in my car (a few of them bare asses during Caribana and Pride) my beautiful 2015 Honda Civic has passed on. It had a full life reaching just shy of a 405000km. Fluid changes, brakes and a new water pump were its only medication.

It literally paid for itself 10 times over. I know its dumb to mourn a car but I did have a tear in my eye when it passed (also, I was 5 min away from the shawarma place I was headed to so my emotions were in overdrive)

Rest well my old friend. I feel good knowing its parts like the airbags will go on to hopefully save the lives of others

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6 years old and done?!? HOW!?!
(sorry for your loss 😢)
 
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What happened fam?
The car was abused to the end tbh. I treated it like a red headed step child. I took care of it but never any TLC.

I spent the night thinking about my next car....I know, I'm a horrible mourner....

Its hard to stop thinking like and Uber driver. Originally I was thinking Tesla or something else along those lines but then logic kicked in. I'm getting another civic.

Not gonna fix it? Your cars got the age to still drive and a couple months of UBER would help pay it off too!
It'll cost around $3K to repair. I can buy a 2014 with equivelent mileage for $2k.

Also. I ruined that car to the point that it was only used for Uber. My fam never sits in that car.

My Uber time has returned to the weekend and occasionally weekday schedule I used to be on so no need for anything special.
 
Those 9th gen civics were super reliable, manual or auto transmission?

Honda’s have always had weak automatic transmissions.. the new gen civics are plagued with issues from the turbo or cvt transmission as the miles racked up

pro tip I would look into a used 2017 Camry if you want something reliable & comfortable
 
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Those 9th gen civics were super reliable, manual or auto transmission?

Honda's have always had weak automatic transmissions.. the new gen civics are plagued with issues from the turbo or cvt transmission as the miles racked up

pro tip I would look into a used 2017 Camry if you want something reliable & comfortable
Auto CVT.

Fix it or give it a fresh ant
Honda should drive 500k easy


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Honda is giving me a decent trade in tbh. I need to finance and the car I'm looking at comes to 0% because of loyalty.

So the new civics are crap?
 
So the new civics are crap?
Personally I would look into a 2017 Camry, they're super reliable, the drivetrain has been used for like 10yrs and no issues.. ask the taxi guys

the new gen civics just built different and aren't meant to hold up(I guess you can say that about every new car now a days)

ultimately it's ur money spend it how you like.. if you're guna get a new civic avoid the turbo engines as they experience sludge build up once the kms rack up.. not a fan of cvt transmissions as well(I'm a boomer I like a more conventional drivetrain)
 
Personally I would look into a 2017 Camry, they're super reliable, the drivetrain has been used for like 10yrs and no issues.. ask the taxi guys

the new gen civics just built different and aren't meant to hold up(I guess you can say that about every new car now a days)

ultimately it's ur money spend it how you like.. if you're guna get a new civic avoid the turbo engines as they experience sludge build up once the kms rack up.. not a fan of cvt transmissions as well(I'm a boomer I like a more conventional drivetrain)
White camry with black sunroof black rims. 👏🏻👍🏿
 
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