Well, now, my mother drove the car for about two blocks with the parking brakes on...

What will that do?

 

nothing... two blcoks aint that much, 2 miles, thats a bit different. plus the drum brakes dont do jack anyways.

 

What's the difference between disc and drum brakes anyway?

 

Actually, I forgot to include on the way back too...it's a bit more than half a mile. Still the same though?

 

I let my friend practice driving and when she went to start the car, she didn't leave the key in the position long enough for the car to start. So the engine made noises as it tried to come on, but then once she turned it back to the normal position, it just went off. Is that bad?>>>

No.

Then later today, some moron in front of me slammed on the brakes to make a turn so I had to slam on my brakes all the way to the floor! I was going 40 MPH, how bad that going to be on my brakes?>>>

Like I said earlier, you'll do far more damage to your car if you DON'T hit the brakes! Their purpose is to stop the car...and you'll have to replace the pads sooner or later, because every time you apply the brakes (gently or hard) you wear them down. Replacing pads/shoes is considered routine brake maintenance. Naturally, if you slam on the brakes everyime you stop, you'll be replacing them sooner than if you only do gentle stops (which I find impossble to do these days) or if you do hard and gentle mixed braking.

The main thing is, you need to relax. A car is a machine, and a very sturdy one at that. To kill a car, you have to WANT to kill it. It is designed and built to handle the elements it will encounter out on the road (including extreme weather, road conditions, traffic and the driver) Follow your maintenance guide, keep it clean and DRIVE it (nothing is harder on an engine than to just let it sit and not run) and it will stay like-new and last a long time.

 

Yeah, you're right...

>_<

 

a friend of mine inherited his dad's 87 honda accord with like 300,000 miles on it already a little while ago. He drove that thing like a damn rally car flooring it all the time, jammin the breaks on to do powerslides, he pretty much abused the hell out of it and it still lasted till 400,000 miles. It probably would have lasted even longer if he hadn't crashed it into a curb going 50mph on pure ice...

 

Poor Honda! What a tragic death!

:cry:

 

haha, my friend hit a curb at low speeds and just ran over it, tall side walls=good.

 

Starters, 27,000 miles is pretty good. My mom's Accord SE is an '02 and it has over 27,000 miles on it.

These cars redline at 6,250 rpms. The automatic transmission should make it so that it will not go into the redline, unless you smash down on the accelerator. My mother has done this once.

Like I tell my friend, Paul, don't worry about putting miles on the car. As long as you have the regular maintenance done regularly the car will last forever.

If safety is an issue, this car is really safe. I was t-boned while driving our Accord the day before my driver's test. Because of the steel side beams, I wasn't injured. The whole driver's side of the car had to be replaced because the car was t-boned on the driver's side.

Don't freak out if you're driving on the highway/freeway, just be aware of your surroundings.

I only know one person who can make a Honda die/not run, and that is my extremely stupid 30 year old brother.