I also have a 10yr old Accord, currently at 118k. Its been a solid car, extremely reliable. We've been "giving it another year" for about 3 years now.
It has cost me considerably less in the last few years since I decided at 70k to just get the local garage to do servicing. It just felt like every service I had at a dealer was having to do brake pads and disks etc which felt unnecessary.
No car is faultless, it's had its share of problems, leaking windscreen = footwell swimming pool(fixed), seized back calipers, burst power steering cooler pipe etc. However, its a brilliant looking car in Arctic Pearl Blue with Grey Pentas. Even at 10 years, with a fair few motorway chips and in need of an alloy refurb. I still get comments about how nice the car looks on both the inside and the outside from family and friends. The inside still looks like new. With the Xcarlink added, it's really all I need in a car.
I am city based now and not doing 70 mile round trips on the motorway everyday, so I've been tempted recently with the hi mpg, small engine turbo, low road tax cars recently. I just can't do it. My Accord has seen me through 5 years of the worst of Scotland's motorway conditions. Numerous snowboarding trips to the highlands (on v.snowy roads). I brought my son home in it from hospital. Its become part of the family. I'm only doing 5k a year now so we can call that his retirement
The way I look at it, if it's getting replaced, its going to be another reasonably new Accord. SO, say £250-£300 per month finance as trade in is pretty much £1.5k. For every year we get it through it's MOT (which has been pretty easy for the most part) I've saved £3k. Even if there is a chunky bill once in a while, we're still quids in.
Hope there are many more miles left in "Mr Honda" yet. My mechanic seems to think there is
