My accord finally died last friday. Blew the headgasket at 248k miles going southbound on Hwy 85. Was driving, noticed that the temp was still below C even tho I had been on the road for about 20 minutes. While pondering what could be causing this (thermo stuck open?) the engine began to bog and a light shaking started. By the time I was able to merge to the right hand lane the engine died and I pulled into the shoulder with no PS/brakes/etc...

Popped th e hood and after a cloud of white smoke cleared I opened the oil fill port to see white/brown froath around the valve train :wtc:

Its dead

Driving a 2001 Chev Malibu LS until monday.

248k miles though on a 1987 Honda Accord LX that didn't have much in the way of preventive maintance. Earned many times its cost. Right now there are no Hondas in the family... a sad day.

 

whats the next car going to be?

 

sorry to hear about the death in the family, but it gave you almost 250k miles of service, time to move on to bigger and better things.

 

my boy has an 87 LXI,..my gawd you dont know how much garage time i spend on that damn car,...he wont give it up either,..he delivers pizza in it,..he has stock suspension and it feels like a freaking boat,...sways back and forth,..long lasting car though

 

Swap in another engine.:thumbup:

 

sorry to hear that.

well, at least you know exactly how much your car coulda given to you. I had a 91 civic hatchie with 286k miles when i bought it. I had to sell it, and by then, it had 306k and still runnin strong on the stock engine. It was sold to my buddy, who soon swapped it out for a ZC. I always wondered how much more the stock engine had left in it :happysad:

 

2003 Mazda Protege5

Gonna take delivery after work today

 

nice