RE: Shed of the Week: Honda Legend
Discussion
AdeV said:
And if you take the exhausts off it entirely, it sounds bloody awesome.
Did that once with my Rover - the exhaust fell off at the engine end early one Sunday morning on a bumpy country lane, so I got it out, stuck it all in the boot and proceeded to blatter round Surrey for the rest of the day, the car sounding like a Spitfire crossed with a NASCAR racer...Back in 1992 I needed another car and visited a car dealer friend of mine to see what he had. I saw a silver 1988 Legend Coupe and to my eyes at the time, I looked a beautiful thing, immaculate at four years old, but had done 136,000 miles already with a book full of Honda stamps. I took a deep breath, paid him three and a half grand and drove it away, feeling like a Lord but worrying about the mileage. How wrong was I? I loved that car, kept it a few years and sold it with well over 200,000 miles to someone I still saw driving it 5 years later and not one thing went wrong with it the whole time I had it.
Petrol Hondas are super reliable, but surely at this age it's going to be susceptible to old car problems the same as any other old car.
Rubber seals and hoses only last a certain amount of time before they perish, so surely something like a steering rack seal could go at any time and consign this to the scrapheap?
Rubber seals and hoses only last a certain amount of time before they perish, so surely something like a steering rack seal could go at any time and consign this to the scrapheap?
I dont know if its been mentioned already( cant be arsed to read 5 pages!) but it wasnt a "50k car in 98".
A quick look at the new price in a car mag from 1998, shows it listed at £34085. Even allowing for some nice extras, it wasnt anywhere near 50 grand! Does the seller realise its not a Lexus Ls!!??
A quick look at the new price in a car mag from 1998, shows it listed at £34085. Even allowing for some nice extras, it wasnt anywhere near 50 grand! Does the seller realise its not a Lexus Ls!!??
rb5er said:
Yes thats why its listed as a Honda Legend.
I wouldn`t be suprised if after a few options were ticked it was North of £40k and he just rounded it up for effect as so many people do. Big deal.
Blimey, just saying- touchy bugger! Must be a very good friend;)I wouldn`t be suprised if after a few options were ticked it was North of £40k and he just rounded it up for effect as so many people do. Big deal.
For effect??? (you mean bulls
t)Get your mate to list as a 75k car -even greater effect then!! Smooth, wafty shed though and rare as rockin horse poo.
oceanview said:
Blimey, just saying- touchy bugger! Must be a very good friend;)
For effect??? (you mean bullst)Get your mate to list as a 75k car -even greater effect then!!
Yep he is a very good friend rather than an acquaintance.For effect??? (you mean bulls
t)Get your mate to list as a 75k car -even greater effect then!! For effect yes he rounded it up rather than round it down, quite a bit different from listing it as a car in a totally different price range. He may well even have the original bill of it costing nearer £50k, I can ask. I can also ask if he was just bulls
tting.
Thread resurrection.
I just bought a 99 Legend at well under shed money to last me until my Defender is screwed haphazardly together near Birmingham. Usable sheds are unusual here in Switzerland. Almost all legally driveable (have Swiss MOT) cars are at least 1500 quid.
It has quite a few miles (240,000km) and a load of scratches, but from 5 yards away it's not too bad. Everything works inside, it runs, turns and brakes like a dream, in fact a lovely wafter: quiet, comfy, light steering, great headlights and a lazy box. I'm charmed by it.
The kicker? ABS light comes on after 20 minutes of driving. Not soon enough to note on my short test drive. Diagnostics, a fluid flush and an oil change planned on Friday. The likely offending part is stupid money, and not used in the US Acura versions, of which there are loads - in fact, the part used in 98 and 99 Euro Legends is unique to those models I believe. Lings have a decent parts microfiche site to go look it up. It seems pretty common that the ABS sts its pants on these (ALB pump/modulator). Breakers parts available in the UK, but they're probably all fked as well.
It will do me for 3 months, and it'll be sold cheap for bumfk Egypt - but beware the ABS light of doom. It'll send mine to the scrapper, or to ISIS.
Note to budget motoring jihadis: timing belt needs doing every 90,000 miles.
I just bought a 99 Legend at well under shed money to last me until my Defender is screwed haphazardly together near Birmingham. Usable sheds are unusual here in Switzerland. Almost all legally driveable (have Swiss MOT) cars are at least 1500 quid.
It has quite a few miles (240,000km) and a load of scratches, but from 5 yards away it's not too bad. Everything works inside, it runs, turns and brakes like a dream, in fact a lovely wafter: quiet, comfy, light steering, great headlights and a lazy box. I'm charmed by it.
The kicker? ABS light comes on after 20 minutes of driving. Not soon enough to note on my short test drive. Diagnostics, a fluid flush and an oil change planned on Friday. The likely offending part is stupid money, and not used in the US Acura versions, of which there are loads - in fact, the part used in 98 and 99 Euro Legends is unique to those models I believe. Lings have a decent parts microfiche site to go look it up. It seems pretty common that the ABS s
ts its pants on these (ALB pump/modulator). Breakers parts available in the UK, but they're probably all fked as well.It will do me for 3 months, and it'll be sold cheap for bumf
k Egypt - but beware the ABS light of doom. It'll send mine to the scrapper, or to ISIS.Note to budget motoring jihadis: timing belt needs doing every 90,000 miles.
Edited by kinghottinger on Monday 15th December 21:29
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