Slowly waking this website up with all the clock traffic 🤣 Thanks Honda 👍🏼
Yeah, I guess you could call that a beneficial side effect.
But the problem is Honda's are SO DARN RELIABLE.
270,000 miles. My car has a little rust around the rear wheel wells and the hood.
I've replaced:
Spark plugs (all 8) once (trying to clear the Check Engine light)
EGR valve once (same as above)
Mass Air Flow Sensor once (same as above)
Lower O2 Sensor once (same as above)
Upper (GEEZE) O2 sensor once (same as above)
Cleaned out the EGR gallery (which was full of carbon) which fixed the Check Engine Light.
Next time that code pops, I'll start with the EGR gallery.
What I'm getting at is this:
No mystery problems (like my Dodge Stratus which would just have the engine shut off while driving - turned out to be a $700 fuel pump issue), or when it would go into Limp mode every few years (because the input / output speed sensors which were mounted in the engine in a way where you had to be a contortionist to get to them) would get fouled with metal chips and go blind), or when I tried to do a tune up and found all the spark plug galleries full of oil, and then the distribution just decided to fail so back to the shop for $1200 of work.
I have no maintenance on the Honda other than that, and replacing the rear shock absorbers.
The Honda cars are indefatigable. That's why I'll buy another.