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diffyhelman2
post Feb 25 2025, 09:57 PM

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QUOTE(asphiroth @ Feb 25 2025, 09:53 PM)
have to ask honda if still can claim warranty or not
when i tested drive honda civic ehev last year, at the showroom(also SC) got one insight owner came for regular maintenance service. honda SA told me the insight has been used since 2011 and managed to claim battery warranty once.

I terus book civic ehev. today 1 year anniversary owning bestest car
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2011 car not even 15 years. The real test is whether owner will keep the car for 20 + years and use it daily instead of becoming backup car. There are still waja and wira examples going around because it’s relatively cheap to keep it on the road. Hybrid after 20 years?
diffyhelman2
post Feb 26 2025, 12:12 AM

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QUOTE(netmatrix @ Feb 25 2025, 10:25 PM)
Majority of car owners usually ditch their cars right after they are fully paid. So it is rare that a single owner car with more than 15 years is going to tell you they owned that car for 15 years. And it could probably be the 2nd or 3rd owner and so forth.

You can randomly stop any Wira & Waja owner and ask them if they are the first owners. I can bet they are not. At current situation these cars are buy, use and abandon. Few thousand buck for one to drive for 2-3 years is a bargain for people not wanting to pay instalments just to move around. Single owner cars are very rare.

My neighbour is an owner of a Prius C from new since 2013. The car is only 12 years old. Very minimal service because it is rarely driven. It is still there ready to go when he needs it. Another of my neighbour that had a Prius sold it after 5 years. I know a friend who bought a a used 2011 Honda Insight before pandemic. The car is still in use today. And its not well taken care of whats more washed.  rclxub.gif
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good point, which begs the question, are hybrid good for beater cars? I guess you can use and abuse it but with two different powerplants plus all the extra components to connect ICE to battery its twice the amount that can breakdown...not even talk about change battery yet....

US has a few groups keeping alive gen 1 prius and insight tho... but they are the very few minority and mostly those green types

 

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