{"id":951,"date":"2009-10-28T23:01:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T07:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/?p=951"},"modified":"2009-10-28T23:01:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T07:01:05","slug":"new-used-car-1993-honda-accord-ex-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/951","title":{"rendered":"New (Used) Car: 1993 Honda Accord EX-R"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/951&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-951 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2009\/10\/IMG_0160.resized.JPG?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wordpress\/..\/files\/2009\/10\/IMG_0187.resized.JPG?fit=750%2C563&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Last weekend, I finally got a car.  I&#8217;m not a car guy and know next to nothing about them, so I just mentioned some criteria to the car people in my family and asked them to tell me about it if they figured it was a good deal and fit my criteria.  My primary criteria was this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Get me to the mountain (Cypress) and back with snowboard gear and maybe friend or two +their gear.<\/li>\n<li>Doesn&#8217;t consume too much gas doing #1.<\/li>\n<li>Doesn&#8217;t beg to be broken into.  I want to be able to leave it places without being paranoid.<\/li>\n<li>Isn&#8217;t huge.  I hate parking huge vehicles.  I don&#8217;t even like driving them very much.  I don&#8217;t need a huge vehicle.  (More than 2 seats would be nice, however&#8230;.)<\/li>\n<li>Doesn&#8217;t cost a lot to insure.<\/li>\n<li>Doesn&#8217;t cost much in any regard, really.  ^.^  CHEAP.  But works.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not looking for an investment.  I may only insure it for the ski season, and sell it afterward, depending on circumstances.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Basically, I wanted a cheap, reliable car so I could go snowboarding whenever I wanted.  I bought a discounted (due to the 2010 Olympics) season&#8217;s pass to <a href=\"http:\/\/cypressmountain.com\">Cypress Mountain<\/a> this year and plan on using it intensely.<\/p>\n<p>I received a few suggestions from everyone, but they were either a little too expensive or not quite what I was looking for.  But then my uncle came across this 1993 Honda Accord EX-R with 193,000 km that was in great condition.  Long-ish story short: I bought it, last weekend, Saturday October 24.  \ud83d\ude42  It&#8217;s not super sexy, but it drives great and was a good deal ($2500 before tax).  Actually, I do find it pretty hot&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The things I love about it: 4 cylinder (good on gas) yet seems to have very decent acceleration, back seats fold down to easily accommodate snowboard\/ski gear, it&#8217;s manual and front-wheel drive to give better control in snow, and it just feels great to drive.  The one problem with it, which is really more of a nuisance: the ignition alarm on the driver&#8217;s side that indicates you still have the keys in the ignition when the door is open, goes off even when the keys are not in the ignition (getting in\/out of the car).  My dad and I poked around in the fuse box to see if we could cut it off, but it was connected to the interior lights, so I&#8217;ll live with it for now.  In the process, however, we disconnected the stereo from the battery, which activated some kind of anti-theft mechanism.  Now the stereo requests a 5-digit code before it will start working again!  I managed to find the code hand-written in the manual, and tried entering it many times, but I couldn&#8217;t get it to work.  So I drive in silence, for now.  ^.^  It&#8217;s not so bad, as the stereo only has a radio and a tape deck; one thing I wanted to upgrade soon, anyway.  We actually have a spare car stereo (doesn&#8217;t everyone?), I just need to find someone to install it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, except for a couple little things, I&#8217;m very happy with my first car.  Yay \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I finally got a car. I&#8217;m not a car guy and know next to nothing about them, so I just mentioned some criteria to the car people in my family and asked them to tell me about it if they figured it was a good deal and fit my criteria. My primary criteria&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/951\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New (Used) Car: 1993 Honda Accord EX-R<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[229,230,9,80],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-accord","tag-car","tag-photos","tag-snowboarding","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-fl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}