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i have recently purchased a 97 honda civic ex. it has 220K miles on it. that might seem high but i bought it from a neighbor of mine who bought the car new back in 97. i even remember the day he brought it home. i know the man pretty well, well enough to know that he keeps up good vehicle maintenance. and we all know hondas like to run for at least 350K if they can. i had a del sol with 402K on it, original motor. so i thought it was a good buy.

my question is.. is there anything i can expect from a 97 honda civic ex at a certain higher mileage? i know that some cars are prone to doing certain things when they get to having a lot of miles on them. i was just wondering if any of you that have had a lot of experience with this car could tell me something i may not know. thanks

 
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Sounds like you got a good car that will last a long time. Honda's never wear out like other brands so I think you have nothing to worry about. Keep up the scheduled maintenance and drive like your grandmother

 
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Based on my experience I expect that this car will burn lots of oil if it hasn't already.

I once owned an Accord and ran that to 300k miles and somewhere around 250k miles you will start to have problems with electrical motors or windings. I expect that you will have problems with your alternator, starter, fuel pump, radiator fan and heater fan. After so many revolutions the brushes just end up wearing out on these items.

 
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ok well thanks for the input guys. it does not seem to burn oil yet maybe ill get lucky and it just wont ever start.

 
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i did come across one other thing i wanted to ask about. the SRS light seems to stay on at all times. anyone know how to get this to go off? i know some airbags
have child safety lock outs i was wondering if this was that type of deal.

 
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no one knows about the SRS light?

 
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Put srs light in your search engine and you'll get more information than you'd ever want along with some suggestions to make it go off.

 
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Or you can just visit this link:
http://www.geocities.com/myintegra96/srs.html

 
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not familiar with the srs light but tere should be a local shop arund u that woul be able to help u out. the srs light, if im not mistaking is just like the cel, and has warning information on it. the shop should be able to hook somehthing up to it to check the error. my gues from knowing nothing about any problems is that u may have a lose or blown fuse or maybe a disconnected sensor. have it looked at and post back