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I AM thinking of buying my mother-in-law's 1995 Honda Civic GLi which has done 42,000km, mainly on short trips. It has been regularly serviced by a Honda dealership, but I imagine there would be a build-up of gunk inside the engine. Is that correct? And, do you think it would be a good idea to change the timing belt, say at 50,000km instead of the recommended 100,000km?

BEFORE doing anything I would try to confirm with the dealer what has been done to the car. Because it has done such low mileage it should have been serviced on the basis of time, not distance, so it should still have been regularly serviced despite the low km. If that's the case I wouldn't worry about doing anything extra now. The same goes for the timing belt, which should have been changed on the basis of time not km, so it may well have been changed. If not, I'd change it now for safety's sake.

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