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Trust the voices.
One of them will be right.
After 40,000 miles of ignoring said noise it was still fine.
Yours might snap the day you take delivery of the car, but most likely it'll not. I'm led to believe they don't break anyway, but either stretch and throw a timing error to the ECU, or slip a tooth.
That's the fun of used cars. Stop worrying and drive the bloody thing until something *does* break.
10 years ago I needed a 4.2 Ton Transit and eventually found one near Cornwall. So I go there with a mate and look at the van, start it up and it sounds horrendous . Like there's no oil in the engine. Listening to the engine while putting it under load convinced me it was actually just a worn cam lobe though so I brought it.
Ten years later that cam lobes still tapping like a demented shoe cobbler but all I've ever done is put pads, shoes and new wheel cylinders on it. Never touched the engine.
I'm gonna buy a car when I get back from holiday but I'm just gonna buy a used Focus as parts are plentiful and cheap. Honda and other Jap cars are great but you can come unstuck on parts pricing ... even using marts like Euro Car parts.
Completely irrational and borderline mental thoughts about car purchases only please.
We've had 3 Honda's (2 Civics - 1 of which was the 2.2D, a 1.6 diesel and a HRV) - the only "issue" we had over 6 years was an electronic handbrake failure on the HRV.
I can remember the 2.2 being quite a clatter actually - reason being I can remember the slight irony in the word "Dreams" being on the rocker cover....great engine though - loads of grunt - if the clutch was slipping you would have noticed it if you booted it as I seem to remember a fairly large torque figure on that car...you did boot it, right?
I remember buying a used Allegro for about £1200 so a couple of thou for a used Civic is good value for money these days. I have a friend who only buys old cars and never spends more than £2k and it's a gamble at the end of the day.
Our old 2.2 (07 plate) was still fairly clean though from an emissions perspective - it was at that time about £40 a year tax.
However the particulate and NO which (oxidises into NO2) it emits will be very high esp when driving it on short journeys in urban areas. This wasn't considered important 15+ yrs ago when the RFL sysyem was changed, no doubt with the benifit of hindsight the system wouldn't have been weighted so heavily on CO2 alone.
Petol cars do emit more CO2, diesels, esp old ones, give kids walking to school asthma.
Take your pick.
Both fuel types are crap in differnt ways. Diesel is a dirty technology with nasty emissions that aren't taxed but should be. Some big cities are starting to ban old diesel cars which is a good thing.