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I am right in saying that the Honda Accord is NO LONGER being made.

I purchased a NEW Honda Accord in the UK in January 2012.

Can anyone tell me is the Honda Accord not being made anymore and how much longer will I be able to get it serviced and how much longer are parts and accessories going to be available for it?

Thanks
 
Spares and servicing are not connected with a models production.

Spares have to be available for something like 10-15 years.
 
That is correct, Honda has discontinued the Accord in Europe due to falling sales and a different market strategy.
It will still be sold in the America though as the Accord is hugely successfull over there.

Real shame as i personally think the Accord is a great car and a million times better than the usual German vauxhall equivalents

You will always be able to get it serviced.
Honda will always continue to produce and manufacture parts for their cars.even after 15 years after it has been discontinued.
You may struggle buying accessories for the car in the future like special upgrade options and stuff as once they are gone they are gone.


I also own a 1999 Honda Prelude 2.2vti and pretty much all parts are still available for it. Like genuine exhausts systems, brakes seals gaskets pretty much every serviceable part.
 
It cannot hold its own against any German counterparts but against the likes of Ford and Vauxhall it is comparable, if not better, certainly in terms of inside comfort.
 
It's far better than the over-rated German equivalent, your POS like Passats and A4.

it's not comparable to a Vauxhall or Ford, if you do then you dont know Honda.
 
exec said:
It's far better than the over-rated German equivalent, your POS like Passats and A4.

it's not comparable to a Vauxhall or Ford, if you do then you dont know Honda.
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Each to their own but having owned 3 Golfs and an A4 prior to my 8th Gen everything from quality of the interior, thickness of paint, solidity, speed of car, handling, braking etc etc was superior on all the German cars. It is comparable in terms of reliability though and it is, of course, slightly cheaper, so something has to give. I have never owned a Vauxhall or Ford so am only going by friends who have them.
 
hale-pope said:
Each to their own but having owned 3 Golfs and an A4 prior to my 8th Gen everything from quality of the interior, thickness of paint, solidity, speed of car, handling, braking etc etc was superior on all the German cars. It is comparable in terms of reliability though and it is, of course, slightly cheaper, so something has to give. I have never owned a Vauxhall or Ford so am only going by friends who have them.
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I think the "superiority" is all in the mind. Golf's and A4's are barely better than a Focus and Mondeo, infact I would rate the last two higher than the Golf and A4 in every single way apart from a few inside materials, and to say they handle better and are just as reliable is laughable.
 
exec said:
I think the "superiority" is all in the mind. Golf's and A4's are barely better than a Focus and Mondeo, infact I would rate the last two higher than the Golf and A4 in every single way apart from a few inside materials, and to say they handle better and are just as reliable is laughable.Siep
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Superiority is not all in the mind, otherwise a Merc would be finished like a Ford but sold for Merc money..... or maybe you think it already is?! As for reliability, all my German cars were more reliable than my Honda so i am going by personal experience.
 
hale-pope said:
Superiority is not all in the mind, otherwise a Merc would be finished like a Ford but sold for Merc money..... or maybe you think it already is?! As for reliability, all my German cars were more reliable than my Honda so i am going by personal experience.
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I didn't say that did I, clearly an S class is going to be vastly superior to a Ford in many ways, it wont be comparable.

But i'm tired of hearing parroted nonsense about how all German cars are superior to everything else on the road when it is clearly is not the case. It's just a case of people thinking they are superior because they are told they are superior by the marketing men and garbage reviews.

I've had a fair amount of experience with VAG cars now and some other Germans cars, many people I know own them and they are not superior in every way to a Honda Accord. VW's ride are very soft and they have very numb handling, Audi's don;t know the meaning of handling all their cars seem to suffer from serious understeer with a ride that is stiffer than a horse and cart. Several Audi's i've been in have had rattles galore, sure some of the switchgear is nice to touch and the doors have dampers that make a nice thunk, but build quality is not there and reliability is dog poor, they seem to be in the garage getting fixed all the time, my bro-in-law has spent hundred to thousands on his A4, yet he insists on keeping it.

The paint on the old VAG cars might have been thick, but they become rusty as hell, the new ones have thin paints now, a lot down to switching to water based painting methods.

The E90 3 series has cheap plastics galore inside. All the customer satisfaction surveys say a lot about german cars too, they are usually dangling right at the bottom.

So yeh it is all in the mind, and flippant comments about how a bloody Golf is better than an Accord is quite frankly in my books... laughable. But people can believe what they want, why do you even drive an Accord if the Passat is superior in every way.
 
Crikey - sounds like a German car has really let you down at some point in your life :) What I have written, far from being flippant, is from my own experience of ownership and may well differ from other people's opinions and experience but that's life. Some people will never buy German thinking them over priced average motors and others will not buy French as they're afraid that without an degree in electrics they will never be able to keep it going after 3 years. There are good models and bad models in every car firm's factory. People have cars and brands they like, as others do bicycles, supermarkets and clothes. And I drive an Accord because it was a cracking second hand bargain. I never expected it to be as good as the most recent cars I had owned before it, and I have not been disappointed. But would I have spent the correct second hand market value money on it? Never. However, my budget had to be kept, and I am in the car and awful lot and I don't like the interiors on the ages of the cars i could get for my budget - the fad of the plastic alu dash just didn't appeal - and on this side of things, the upside is the Accord is different, quite stylish and there are not many about, which i like. Horse for courses as they say ..... though I would never exchange it for a horse!
 
Calm down exec, this isnt Honda Karma.

You dont have to hate everything German on here to stay in with the HK crowd.

Honda's are more reliable and better made though, thats true.
 
im glad im not the only person who noticed that everyone on hk hates all german cars with avengence.lol

to be fair tho.the people i know who own merc's are brand brain washed.lol

its just a shame that germans cars are so heavy.killes all the fun out of them for me
 
richsprint said:
Calm down exec, this isnt Honda Karma.

You dont have to hate everything German on here to stay in with the HK crowd.

Honda's are more reliable and better made though, thats true.
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lol I don't 'hate' German cars, I love my old school Beemers, but ive never been a huge German car fan thats for sure, I was born a Jap fan and I will die as one. :p

I just can't stand the nonsense that is parroted about German cars, it is borderline delusional. It would be the same as me saying the Honda Accord is the bestest car ever made in the world!
 
Also not everyone over on HK hates German cars, a lot of the postings on it are banter, other Jap brands get it too, HK is a proper Honda-nut club with hardcore enthusiasts so a little bit of aggro on other brands is expected. :lol:
 
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Both - though I must speak to my trade union in the morning about the weekend's forum events.
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ahhh .....you've been reading it too :lol:
 
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