I know a lot of people have beaters as their first cars and beaters often come with their own quirks. I wanted to share my own stories and hear some of yours.
My first car was a 2007 Honda CR-V, I got it with 193K miles and totalled it at 230K. The insurance check plus a bit of my savings is what I ended up using as the down payment on my Pathfinder.
Here's some quirks it had:
1) The check engine light could be turned both on or off by driving through a pothole.
2) It burned so much oil that it threw lean codes constantly. If I drove it long enough the whole tailgate would have an oily sheen all over it.
3) Two of the lock actuators failed even after having them all replaced during a recall
4) I took out the group 51R battery and put in a group 24F. The posts were shimmed with bent pennies and the tie down was a wood board.
5) I'm like 90% sure the front brakes didn't even work and it had like 6 different ABS codes IIRC to support that theory
6) In it's 230,000 miles of life, it went through 5 A/C compressors, two of those being during the couple years I owned it
God I miss that car sometimes lol.
My first car was a 2007 Honda CR-V, I got it with 193K miles and totalled it at 230K. The insurance check plus a bit of my savings is what I ended up using as the down payment on my Pathfinder.
Here's some quirks it had:
1) The check engine light could be turned both on or off by driving through a pothole.
2) It burned so much oil that it threw lean codes constantly. If I drove it long enough the whole tailgate would have an oily sheen all over it.
3) Two of the lock actuators failed even after having them all replaced during a recall
4) I took out the group 51R battery and put in a group 24F. The posts were shimmed with bent pennies and the tie down was a wood board.
5) I'm like 90% sure the front brakes didn't even work and it had like 6 different ABS codes IIRC to support that theory
6) In it's 230,000 miles of life, it went through 5 A/C compressors, two of those being during the couple years I owned it
God I miss that car sometimes lol.