Need a qualified mechanic inspection

[vans]

I am looking at buying an EK civic with a B18cR engine
Unfortunately due to my situation, I can only afford 95% of the car and my parents are pitching in the rest. My friend "TheSaint" looked at this car with me and told me it was one of the best value for money Hondas he has ever seen or driven. However, the mechanic that I used to inspect it did a ridiculously shit job and now my parents think I am buying a lemon. I, on the other hand, have a little more sense but no clout as I am not a qualified mechanic...while I have made a verbal offer on the car, there is another interested buyer and so I would like to clear this up ASAP. I have a copy of the dodgy inspection report if it helps. Basically I need a QUALIFIED mechanic who knows about Hondas to give a second opinion so that I can convince my stingy philistine parents that their (small amount of) money is not being wasted.

Thanks.

[vans]

I should also mention that the car is based in Perth, Western Australia.

[NightKids]

Parents vs car issue is always hard. GL with everything!

[DC2-PWR]

What did the mechanic inspect? What was dodgey about it?

Mmm yeah pearents are hard to convince, just because your buying a sports car. They want us to drive like a corrolla or someshit, wtf.

good luck

[vans]

actually they want to buy a new great wall car for me or a commodore or falcon because parts are cheap and readily available! so you can see the kind (lack) of logic i am up against!

[TheSaint]

http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthread.php?147776-Need-a-mechanic-inspection-in-WA-someone-that-knows-hondas

same story

nobody has a clue about hondas around here sigh

[SuperJDM.]

lol @ great wall lol @ commodore lol @ falcon, wanna know why the parts are so cheap? because they stuff up so easy so parts are always in stock etc etc.

can you make shit up and say shit like "commodores and falcons are cop baits they stuff up easily etc etc"?

i cop shit from my dad all the time for owning a civic lol he still carrys on till this day about how small my civic is and how i should of gotten a holden blablabla, but i just shut him up by saying "how much have you wasted on the holden trying to fix it up?"

:D

[vans]

yeh basically he thought it had piston and tappet noise (perhaps a short air ram+pod filter+vtec engagement confused his small brain??) engine sounded immaculate to us and has done less than 40000km, it is also a japanese spec engine which he totally missed. he also missed the fact that it had a front LSD. went through a big niggle about engine mounts and the window motors being noisy (could not give a F**K!) and other small things, also radiator was knackered (it clearly came from the original B16cR engine which had done about 130000km...still no biggie there...engine mounts had sagged, dont care, easy fix.

[vans]

haha yeh i tried to explain this a thousand times SuperJDM...rock and a hard place=mother & father

hahaha!

[flipfire]

Why dont you just save that extra 5% on your own and buy it yourself and tell your pez to suck it

[vans]

unfortunately i ran out of work about a month ago and this car will go if i cant get the cash.

[DC2-PWR]

Did you tell the other owner about that 5%? Work out a deal or something

[vans]

yeh possibly an idea there, cheers...still need a job for it to work! haha!

[TheSaint]

the original engine is B16a2 ... not B16cR lol

gawd man - ur mum has a K24 accord - just tell her its a mini version of her car =p

[vans]

haha! yeh she should know. she used to say she felt like a princess in that car. :>

[TheSaint]

ur gona feel like a princess in the civic .... lol

[vans]

votekick: TheSaint
reason: blasphemy

[TheSaint]

lol - u just want to taste vtec again - it was funny waching ur face when the cam lobes crossed over =p

[DLO01]

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OP please think about an appropriate tittle in the future. You'll get more of a response too. :thumbsup:

[mocchi]

Title changed.
OP please think about an appropriate tittle in the future. You'll get more of a response too. :thumbsup:

dean you should save your reply in a text file and copy paste for future use. lol