Should I buy an 04 civic automatic?

Found a great deal on an 04 Honda civic. Hearing nightmares about this generation s automatic transmissions. 01 seems to be the worst year. Does anyone have any experience with these cars that can give me some advice? Car has 132k miles. Transmission is in great shape now.

If it is fine now and a great deal, that is all you can ask.

The car has 132K miles on it and is an 2004. You can expect some repair costs simply from the age of the vehicle.
The average lifespan of a transmission is 100,000 (regardless of the car)… Yours might go for 250K miles or it might die at 133K… No one has a crystal ball and can tell.
- there are things that owners can do to improve the life expectancy of a motor. If this car has had multiple owners, you shouldn't expect that those have been done.

Have you had the car checked out by a mechanic?
How great is the price?

Have a trusted mechanic check it for you. I had a 2001 Honda Stream for a while (based on the Civic) and the Automatic started going wrong around 60,000 miles, the seals kept breaking up on one of the driveshafts like once a year even. Then at 87,000 miles the torque converter actually failed.

You really need to be looking at a 2006 model to be out of the problem area.

You are looking at a 14 year old car. If the transmission is not broken now, it will break soon or it will make it past 200k. Roll the dice.

No -buy a standard to test the tranny. Never go to the gay part of town as trannies are usually bad

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