I have a '99 Accord LX, stock, name of Fenry, she came home with us on a warm July afternoon of that year, 131,000 miles ago, to fill the role as household servant, replacing a venerable, but troublesome Plymouth, our only foray into the market of the great Americsan automobile. 113,000 miles of yeesh.

The ole' silver ghost has served us well for all this time and fills the role of the DD that stays outside (while the "baby" stays the garage all winter). She takes us to the city, the ballpark, the mall, anyplace that might be too rough or a potential door-dent situation. She's dirty, door dinged, burns oil, the cruise control no longer works, but for now, she needs to stay part of the family, faithfully suffering the indignity of getting snowed under, rained on, parked in hard spaces while her baby brother gets professionally detailed and cooed over. She is subjected to the steets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens because, Heaven forfend, the baby doesn't got over a bridge or through a tunnel, preferring only the smooth roads of Westchester and beyond usually under sunny skies with the top down accompanied by smiles on our faces.

We've looked at new cars from a CR-V to a 9-3, but in the end, we think about that last trip to the supermarket where the wagons roll freely and the trophy wife's Mercedes doors spring hard and wide and we say, well, she's still got a few miles under that hood, let's wait.

So here's to Fenry, the Ole' Silver Ghost, may she last, well, a bit longer.


Now back to your regularly scheduled thread.

 

Nice adage for your Accord. However, on a lighter note, you shouldn't be buring oil at 131K on a Honda. Heck, you shouldn't be burning oil at 200K on a Honda. Somewhere along the line you let the oil go too long. Tsk Tsk. :nono:

 

No really, I've always been manic about oil changes under 3,000 miles, (hold up hand in pledge). I'm told that the cruise control never breaks either, yet it did (one of the cables snapped off and it looks like whatever held in there cracked to cause that).

 

Are you visibly burning oil from the exhaust or is the engine simply consuming oil? The 6th gen will eat up a little oil, sometimes as much as a quart in 3000 miles if you have a lead foot. But I can honestly say I've never seen a 6th gen accord burning oil. Maybe you've got a defective ring or something. Not that it would be something to worry about. But at only 131K that car probably has a lot of life left in it (assuming you didn't get a tranny with bad carrier bearings).

 

No visable oil burn or residue on the tailpipe, but the consumption is more like quart every 300-500 moles or so. High mileage oil seems to help. Is there any quick fix to try?