05 civic lx, what to look for?

Red-StonerB to Mechanic Advice@gearhead.townEnglish · 10 months ago

I just blew the motor in my Acura (my fault) and my brother has this 05 lx that he got from a customer so no maintenance history. I bought it cuz the price was right and he needs the $.

Cars has 150k miles. Timing belt was done at 130k. It’s an automatic and I have some DW-1 that I will put into it. Shifts good, runs good. My main concern is head gaskets and transmission. From my 5mins of googling seems like there’s been some issues with this gen. Customer gave the car away cuz he thought the head gasket was blown but my brother(real mechanic) has thoroughly checked and doesn’t think there is anything wrong. I don’t smell any hydrocarbons in the expansion tank and we dropped the oil and everything looks perfectly fine so idk why the customer thinks this.

Anyone with experience with these? Have you seen a lot of transmission failure or blown head gaskets?

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