19th Sep 2023, 12:24
These cars will hold their value well. Nowadays with the rising cost of basically everything, anyone with a perfectly functional older car will hang on to it, even at over a decade old. No sense in paying thousands more for a newer car to try and "save" money.
20th Sep 2023, 03:41
I'm the original reviewer. Not sure why I put 2008 in the title, it's actually a 09 plate, but it's the pre-facelift version. Anyway, it just passed 138k miles yesterday (19th Sept) and is still running strong, in fact, the last few tankfulls of standard 95 petrol, it has averaged 46 mpg calculating manually, it doesn't seem to have suffered in this regard with E10 petrol.
Otherwise all good, doesn't burn any oil, a couple of months ago it needed a new offside brake caliper and disc back plate, and recently the air con compressor no longer engages even though the relay, refrigerant level etc are fine, just age I suppose, but winter is coming so no panic yet!
20th Sep 2023, 22:33
If I may suggest please - for your aircon, hopefully it is just a relay or electrical issue, even if it's coming to winter, best get it checked and fixed. Air conditioner compressors need to be run periodically, even in winter, to ensure that they are lubricated. It also keeps the seals from perishing and losing refrigerant. If you let go of the aircon, it can be very expensive to fix. I often run the compressor even with heating, to keep the air dry. Air conditioning is also very handy and safe when the car fogs up inside; it gets rid of it very quickly.
13th Feb 2025, 23:12
Original reviewer here. Still have the Civic, it's nearly at 154k miles and recently passed the MOT, all it needed was new rear discs and pads. For some reason Civics do seem to go through the rears quicker than the fronts. I changed the front discs and pads in March 2019 and they still have an almost new thickness.
The car still runs very well and has a quiet idle, it uses no oil between services; I recently changed the spark plugs at 152k miles even though the car was running fine seeing as the iridium fit items are recommended to change every 75k - this time I tried Denso instead of NGK, they seem fine and the car runs no better or worse. The car still does early to mid 40s mpg (calculated brim to brim), still not fixed the aircon, maybe I'll treat it to a new compressor, we'll see! In summary, these cars really are very good value and are still a quite common site on UK roads, more so than the 9th or 10th gen models to me.
30th Aug 2022, 13:34
There are still a few 1990's Civic's about where I live. I would say a good condition low mileage 2008 Civic is a good bet for a car to last a long time; a neighbor of mine still has his 2007 model and wants to keep it another few years, it has been that good.