razz wrote:

> We had it since brand new, bought in 86, got rid of that scrap pile in 91
> with a 130 k's on the clock. started to rust out pretty bad to. All routine
> maintenance done by me ( worked for honda dealership at the time ). The shop
> was well stocked with vehicles in for repairs and tsb's all the time. Same
> as the Toyo shop across the lot from them at that time, no different from a
> ford or gm or chrysler shop. Had just as many cars going through the doors
> as any one else. And to this day, at the auto mall here in the city i see
> the shops full of cars, Toyo's, Honda's, Gm's Ford's, and so on. I see no
> difference in reliability or the number of occurances in these cars than
> from any others.

Just curious, how do you know that ALL of those Hondas and Toyotas you saw
in the shops were there for something other than regular maintenance (not
counting TSB's and recalls)?

Perhaps your Accord was a rare lemon? I still see a handful of late 80s
Accords running today. A friend of mine put close to 500,000km on an '86
Accord with very few non-routine problems. He ditched it in 2001 when the
rust caught up with it, but the engine (carbureted) and auto tranny were
still all original and good.

Perhaps you have seen no difference in reliability, but I have.