Acuras

[Puzzled]

im buying myself a new car and my knowledge about cars is pretty limited

in a few weeks im gonna buy an acura its gonna be either a 1999 or 2001 used acura TL 3.2
i just wanted to kow if its a reliable car... speed.. reliability... for the money

its used so it already has about 120K clicks on it and its 6,000... any help is useful!

for those interested i can post link to the car

[Sheizenhammer]

At 5/9/09 06:48 PM, Puzzled wrote: for those interested i can post link to the car

Please do, so we can have a better idea of what you're going for.

As for Acuras: they're just Hondas with an "American" badge on them, so yeah; they're pretty reliable and all that. It does depend on the exact car once you get past about 100K though (some cars are fine; others are falling apart by that point).

[Puzzled]

http://www.auto123.com/en/used-cars/clas sified/quebec/boucherville/acura/tl/1999 /2579345?vehtype=CAR&sessid=e25634474465 09b7c9864027800d2acd&idx=0

the only thing that bugs my is the high mileage... i dont know if you can ride the acuras with 100+ K miles

[Sheizenhammer]

Hmm. Doesn't look like there's anything obviously wrong with it, but if I were you I'd do two things before buying it:

1. Test-drive, obviously.
2. Have it looked at by a mechanic (if possible). Sometimes cars can look and drive perfectly fine, and still have major faults with them (expensive faults at that). This is especially true for cars with a lot of miles on them.

However, Acura is Honda's 'luxury american car' branch, so if it does break down on you or anything you can get it fixed through either Acura or Honda garage services (besides the names, they're both the same thing, and as such both are very good in terms of customer service). It doesn't look like a bad idea, especially not for the price. I've seen worse choices (my car, for example....-_-).

Provided it passes those 2 things, I don't see why you shouldn't buy it.

[MegamanZero360]

You should buy a hybrid.

[mansellscore]

A reliable car?
Ford Feista Finesse.

One hint, never buy a car parked in a puddle.

Can't look under it.

[Brick-top]

The mileage is too high. Get something with about 70k or lower.

[LynchedJohNNY]

You are gonna buy a ten year old car with that many miles on it for that much?
Shit, I bought a fully loaded Ford Taurus with 120k+ for a grand.
Everything works and seeing how the Taurus was such a work horse for fleet multiple companies (Hertz, etc etc) I'm looking at nearly dirt cheap junkyard prices if anything happens to the car.

My buddy crashed his '02 Taurus and fixed the whole front end for almost $300.

Anyways what I'm saying is just use that money to finance a much newer car or just use that 6,000 as a down payment and buy brand new.
They're practically giving cars away at dealerships now.

[cumSum]

Acuras are always a good choice but you could probably find better than that for $7k