No, not my Prelude, thank goodness. It's running like a swiss watch. My girls Saturn, that's another story. What piece of garbage that engine is. She's maintained the thing to a T. Always changed the oil within 100 miles of 3K and followed the recommended maintainence. 109K on an 04 and the top end is toast. She had it towed to the dealer where they changed the plugs and ignition coil (not a "coil" like in a distributor setup, different coil, $219 part). Anyway, it's still all fecked up, like I knew it was and they are talking $2400 to do the top end. I figured it was pretty serious, thought it might have skipped the timing belt or something the way it was misfiring and unburned fuel getting into the catalytic converter.
We've been arguing about it on the phone this evening. She talked her mom into talking her dad into "lending" her $2400 to fix it and I said "no f-ing way". It's kind of a "grow up" type thing to me and also just a bad decision. The trans is slipping (auto) from the last time I drove it extensively last year and the front end is going to need CV's and the whole 9 soon as well. She still owes $900 but not a big deal. I say dump it, take whatever they'll give and get into a newer Civic, Accord, Corrolla... I was looking at a G35 with a 6spd., let her take the Prelude but that would be a bit much $$ wise.
If you've read all this... opinions?