Faults:

New battery -- 125000, 150000.

Oil leak -- 130,000.

Brake cylinder leak -- 135000.

Back brakes -- 140,000 miles.

Gas leak -- 140000.

New gas tank -- 150000.

General Comments:

I have had this car since 2004. It was my first car. I am buying a newer car very soon. Not because my honda has gone out, because it's a very reliable car, but the style is just getting too old! I have to catch up with everyone else. Besides the way it looks, OLD!!

It's a very reliable car; I've only had to put like $500 dollars in to this car. My boyfriend has fixed most of the things that I have listed above.

I only paid $1200 for this car, so I got a great deal! It lasted me a while, and now it can last someone else a while...

Faults:

The car had an unusual hard-starting problem. Never solved this one. Did a Minor Tune-Up, replaced the Starter Motor and Solenoid and did not pursue (lost car before I had the chance to).

The sunroof leaked on a few occasions.

The old UNGO Alarm that came with it was a little quirky.

The windows moved at an incredibly slow speed, with the passenger side often getting jammed and stop moving completely.

General Comments:

This 87 Accord LXi was my very first car and though I may have overpaid the Blue Book value just slightly, it was in my opinion a great car and a great buy.

The most notable feature I can recall that I absolutely loved, was the steering. I could whip the steering wheel around like nothing, parking was TOO easy.

Even though my Accord had 164k miles on it (no engine swap), the thing drove like it was brand new. An old friend who used to buy and sell cars drove it for a bit and came back to me saying, "This car is EXTREMELY responsive for a 4 banger." When I was at a stop and I barely tapped on the pedal it felt like the car had muscle.. weird? It even handled freeway driving like it was NOTHING at all. I remember driving back home from my girlfriends house all the time, goin' 85, zooming by all the cars, just trying to get home on time.

My Accord had an automatic transmission and it had just enough kick from the tranny switching to make me happy. Though if there was anymore kick i'd of probably tried to fix it somehow.

It's handling around curves is definitely not one of it's best features, I'll leave that part of my review at that.

So in summary, what I am trying to say is that regardless of my car being 19 years old, I loved it. Honda truly makes beautiful cars, and the Accord may damn well be one of the finest economical cars out there. At 164k miles the Engine and Tranny were both strong. If not for the car getting totalled, I am sure it would have had a whole second life left in it.