Well my Civic is a 93' so any problems I have you probably won't have for some time. But I love the ease (compared to some other vehicles) of things that you can DIY. There's enough info online and people on forums like this that if you have a problem one can easily fix it themselves for a small cost. Only real cost is building your tool chest if you don't have one. My 5th gen. car can come apart with basically three sockets as well which is nice.