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Old 07-21-2006, 01:29 PM   #5 (permalink)
Jrfish007
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Originally Posted by 8thgenuser
Good luck! BTW, where was your 4dr EX assembled?

Doesn't matter much.

Problems I had with mine in the 10 months and 15,000 miles I owned it:
-Bad strut
-Front bumper rattle (dealer never did fix this)
-front drivers side window fell out of the track
-bad stablity on the high way at 80 MPH
-various interior parts fell off

Also, the tranny could not maintain top gear on the highway at 70 MPH. When going up hill (not a mountain or anything steep like that) it had to down shift to 4th gear. I know this isn't a big deal to some, but for me, it's an annoyance to know Honda put the this huge tall gear for 5th gear just so they would get better MPG with the EPA and get them selves a tax break.

Finally, the car was hydroplaining because of the crappy tires they put on it. Then I had one explode, and come completely off the rim while going 75 MPH on the highway.

This was a J-vin car.

So I think the over all quality of parts has gone down, and regradless of where it was made, the parts are still made in one place.
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