Breaking Preludes?

[bristol_bb4]

He's right, most people only bought a prelude cos it was cheaper than a civic.

I totally disagree with this
Dunno about others

same, im on my 3rd lude and it was between the lude or wait a few weeks for a skyline, got the lude and havent looked back since

[nitin_s1]

...absolutely NOBODY wants à Prelude

He is right.

Only some people (like us) want a Prelude. Other people just don't want them. Even at shows, only about 2-3% of people stop to look at the prelude and most people get boners over Civic/Integra/others.

[paul bristol uk]

I 100% agree with Peachy. This last year I have spent well in excess of £2.5k on my 4th gen and I know the next 12months will chuck up a shed load more expense unless I am very lucky,sell it? scrap it? no. All Preludes are getting old now and need attention and money. So if you want one be prepared for that if not go buy something else and be like the grey common herd.

[Ted]

I 100% agree with Peachy. This last year I have spent well in excess of £2.5k on my 4th gen and I know the next 12months will chuck up a shed load more expense unless I am very lucky,sell it? scrap it? no. All Preludes are getting old now and need attention and money. So if you want one be prepared for that if not go buy something else and be like the grey common herd.

Perhaps I should explain my post better. Some cars just aren't worth saving. Dogs in more ways than one that have been used abused and not maintained properly for years. If you have one of these then sell it/break it and buy one that hasn't been used abused and has been maintained. If its a car you love and have had for years its odds on its been looked after. If its something thats been bought say within the last year that you know little about and all sorts of problems have arisen that are going to cost a fortune to fix then sell or break it and buy one thats tidy.

Edds car was worth saving but was bought with a friend to break for profit and parts I wanted for myself that would have cost me a lot of money. The luderati on the other hand was a car I wanted to fit a h22 in and put back on the road.what a piece of jobby it is and a big disappointment that it in my opinion falls into the not worth saving category. Thats what you get for buying a car blind but I will get more than my moneys worth back by keeping the plate and selling the exhaust and rear lights..breaking a prelude is no big issue as it does keep the tidy ones on the road. If I came across a minter for little money I would never consider breaking it for a tidy profit but would use it and maybe sell it when they are collectible which I think they will be.5th gen prices will fall ( except the s type ) now and 4ths will start to rise as they get thinner on the ground. 5ths will rise one day too like most older cars but remember they were the least popular in the sales figures when new so they will be less desirable in later years too so also worth less money.

[Supermarine Blues]

You're in the twilight zone; the few good cars (really good, unmolested ones) will start to creep up in value as all the tatty ones get scrapped. You're already seeing it with 1 & 2Gs.

Cf. the 911s; pre-Gs are like gold plated, Gs slowly appreciating, as are 993s from a low base, 996s are just Swabian Preludes (SCRAP IT!) and 997s depreciating like all late model cars do. 998s are too noo and stupid money.

[Ted]

probably 90% of the 1st gens are already gone so its only half decent ones left and thats why they are starting to fetch decent money. rot is the biggest killer of classic cars and when they get so thin on the ground that there is no choice but to restore a rotten one then the rotten one will start to get saved. personally i dont think the 2nd gen is very popular because the 3rd gen is so similar but a far superior car. 4th and 5th gen are still readily available so you can take your choice of what you want depending on budget available. a lot of the dogs are just bought as a cheap runabout by people some of which realise what they have bought is a nice car and atm would be better off getting a decent example for say £700 rather than spend £2000 to get the hunk of junk they have bought for £300 back to a presentable level. sentimentality aside where say it was your fathers car or something why waste the money when it can be replaced so cheaply.this will not always be the case but what can you do ? buy them all and stick them in a friendly farmers field for say 10 years as renting a storage space for that length of time will far out weigh any investment potential. go back to the field in 10 years and see what you have left. scrap is all it will be. if supply out numbers demand then they just as well be broken now for parts as put straight into a crusher in 10 years time. porsche will always be worth money because it says porsche on the badge. escort mk 1 and 2, i have owned loads and loads of them but if i kept them all locked away for years even they would put me out of pocket in storage fees over resale value. you can't keep everything and you can't force people who don't love the thousands of preludes out there into keeping on top of the car they just happened to buy because they needed something and it was cheap.
we all have opinions, this is mine. it might be wrong but it is mine

[jonja]

We'll I've never thought about selling my lude , even with my rusty arches(I think rustiest on the forum ) I have spend loads of time on it and it's my pride an joy . I will fix it no matter what cause preludes are so rear. Maybe (probably) I'm young and stupid but this is right car for me and at least once a week I hear something good about lude from other drivers/pedestrians(at traffic lights) and it mak
es me proud


And there is no better feeling when you beat some pricks in daddy's 3.0 litre beamer

[Darkam]

What I mean by "Nobody wants a Prelude", is that -I think-, people who buy Preludes are special.

From what I've seen, most of people see them as gaz guzzler and expensive cars to service. And, from what I've seen again, Prelude people are resourcefull peoples. (not sure about the translation of this word) that makes the Prelude accessible for them.
I've never seen a Prelude owner doing the basic servicing in a Honda dealership. The difference is that we pay more for fuel than Diesel Talibans but we pay servicing 1/2, 1/3 of what it whorths.

If I was not a Prelude fan, I would have buy a little diesel and never learn mechanic -and saving by this way- what enables me to drive a Prelude.
When you ask, most of people think Preludes are "fine", but "nobody" can afford the servicing and fuel consumption, and then "everybody" is too lazy to loosen 5 bolts (6 if you have a H22 ) to change the pads them selfs.
Nice car but not ready to make the sacrificies to drive it. Simple as that to me.

[Sailor]

Cut and paste from another thread:

I'm guessing that 80% of the cars I've owned are now worth more than they were when I sold them (in the same condition).

Preludes are classics ... or very nearly. The way that things are going, they will always be able to keep up with traffic - at least up until the time that all cars have to be controlled by a central traffic computer. And when will that be?
Cars to keep until then include everything that doesn't depend on electronics (not most Preludes), and everything that has a story to tell in the evolution of the motor car (H22 VVT + 4WS = Preludes).

There may be times when it seems more like hard work than running a modern econobox. There may be times when something that can do 60mpg as well as 0-60 in single figures looks like it makes more sense. But one day, you'll pick up a car magazine (or read one on the net) and find yourself saying: "I used to have one of those. I wish I still had it now."

Mine will not see the tarmac again unless I can find a spare £1000 or so. I refuse to throw it away, though.

[Ted]

Mine will not see the tarmac again unless I can find a spare £1000 or so. I refuse to throw it away, though.

im guessing the last bit are your words, if so good on you. but it backs my sentimentality thing up.