{"id":4736,"date":"2020-02-13T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2020-02-13T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T11:00:03","slug":"amazingly-clean-1998-honda-civic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/13\/amazingly-clean-1998-honda-civic\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazingly Clean 1998 Honda Civic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typically cars get driven 10,000 to 15,000 miles each year when used as a commuter car. If a car only gets used for a weekly trip to the grocery store, or to doctors appointments, or to church, as a lot of cars owned by the elderly, they don&#8217;t accumulate many miles. Additionally, if a car is a special model like an older Civic Si or an S2000, they may only get driven once in a while, and get even fewer miles on the clock.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4739\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2020_02_13_01.jpg\" alt=\"2020_02_13_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what the case is with this car, but this is a 1998 Honda Civic hatchback with an impressively low 17,000 miles on the odometer. That&#8217;s 22 years old, meaning an average of less than 800 miles per year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4740\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2020_02_13_02.jpg\" alt=\"2020_02_13_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also definitely parked in a garage and rarely driven in winter, because this car is amazingly clean. The paint is perfect, and there isn&#8217;t a spot of rust on the body.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4741\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2020_02_13_03.jpg\" alt=\"2020_02_13_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My first car was a 1997 Civic with 200,000 miles, so when I opened the hood, I couldn&#8217;t believe how good the engine bay looked. I&#8217;ve spent plenty of time in my dirty, greasy, oily engine bay, but this was clean. Even the exhaust heat shield barely had any rust on it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4742\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2020_02_13_04.jpg\" alt=\"2020_02_13_04\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Underneath the car was also very clean, with the black paint still on the suspension components. There was only a little rust on the exhaust, and heat shields that I didn&#8217;t even know existed, with how rusty my car was.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4743\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2020_02_13_05.jpg\" alt=\"2020_02_13_05\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While this car is an automatic, and I would prefer the manual, if given the chance and ability to buy it, I would in a heartbeat.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCasCW0ImD3UuLeMu5RAZCXg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Mechanical Malarkey on YouTube!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T-shirts, hats, and stickers<\/a> are available to order!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typically cars get driven 10,000 to 15,000 miles each year when used as a commuter car. If a car only gets used for a weekly trip to the grocery store, or to doctors appointments, or to church, as a lot of cars owned by the elderly, they don&#8217;t accumulate many miles. 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