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LONGTERMER 2: 125th month report: Honda Civic FD2 2.0iS

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LONGTERMER 2: 10th year and 5 months report: Honda Civic FD2 (Season 2, vol 4) In this blog entry, I'm posting my Family's ride.  The Honda Civic FD 2 2.0 IVTEC.  I called it Season 2 volume 4 because I haven't been updating it for  1 year and 5 months.  This is the 125th month we owned the Honda Civic FD2 2.0I-S.   Update: 29 December 2018.  The Engine mounting, Compressor and Rear Double wishbones still factory fitted.  Though the Compressor showing signs of failure, intermittently blowing hot air.  How to take care of compressor (dad's tips): 1) Change your cabin filter every 20,000km 2) don't full blast the air cond, don't use Auto air-cond.  Dad's fave temperature 25 deg. Celsius at 1/3 fan speed. 3) Don't on the aircond for 1st 2km (Also off air-cond before ignition off) 4) When driving to Genting (uphill) off the air cond.  Blower only. The reason why it hasn't been updated for 17 months is because there's very little things ...

The top 40 best Vehicles Resale value

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PRESENTING: The top 40 best Vehicles Resale value (updated 18/12/2018) NOTE 18/12/18: This is Private sale price.  This DOES NOT factor Trade in price.  For trade in price less 10% to 20% depending on car as used car dealers also need to make money.    Don't be fooled by Mudah or Carlist Used car dealer lowish price.  Eg. They advertised RM50,000 for a 2015 Elantra.  But, in reality, the car's 2014 YM (declared 1 year newer), need to add RM3800 "football money" (typically) + insurance.  So on a save side Prepare at least 5k-6k on top of advertised fee.  If you want to avoid this, try buy from Direct buyer. I NOW PRESENT my research on used car retained value after few years. It took me 3 months to gather and compile the used car prices from various sources of classifieds namely Motortrader, The Star Classifieds, Carlist, and random visits to car dealerships/Recond car showrooms…   Here are the vehicles shown with their Retained value in PERCE...