1993 prelude - Honda Prelude Forum

SOOstrong · 07-31-2009, 05:22 AM

how reliable is this generation? someone is selling one for cheap and i was thinking of picking it up as a winter beater. its automatic though, does 4th gen have same shietty tranny as the 5th gen autos?

and just wondering... how expensive is distrubtor cap, spark plug, and spark plug wires. thanks !

darkstar67 · 07-31-2009, 11:40 AM

Reliable? uhm, well i guess it all comes down to mileage and how you drive... my car isnt reliable, but its not the cars fault. Im young. I dont know much about the autos... And the tune up thing just depends on what you get. my dizzy cap and rotor was like 25 dollars, plugs might be 3 something a peice depending on what you get, and wires should be about 35.

darkbluelude · 08-01-2009, 08:50 AM

I'd say the auto 4th gens are a lot more reliable than auto 5th gens but they're still not great automatic transmission. Mine was great for 5 years and 65,000 miles, bought it with 60,000 miles 5 years now not it has 124,000 and my transmission just crapped out. Of course that was from age 16-21 where I'd shift through it like a stick shift and drive it like an ass. I also didn't do a transmission drain/re fill until about 90,000 miles and it helped a lot but being slammed I developed some cracks in the tranny case..otherwise it would've probably lasted a lot longer :/

All in all, it's a decent transmission and can be reliable as a DD.

dizzy/cap n rotor spark plugs n wires from Honda (I recommend it) is like $100 or so.