Yeah pretty sad how some people treat their machines. My wife has a friend that was in a relationship with some older guy that felt the need to buy her love. One of the things he bought her was a brand new red P5 outfitted with a winch, plow, full cab enclosure...it's been kept outside in the elements for about 3 yrs now. She's told us how she's flopped it doing donuts and sh**. Got a call from her a few months ago that she "burned up the transmission". She was moving stuff from one house to another, towing a fully loaded trailer on city backstreets and the machine wouldn't shift. Told her "no you didn't, it's a Honda". Directed her to pop the seat and grab the shift tool under there. Without looking she said there was no tool under there, "it's there". Instructed her how to manually shift the clutch, sure enough it worked and haven't heard from her since. I'd bet the bank it's never had an oil change or the air filter checked, she got it for free and just doesn't care.
Told the wife when she got it that I'd end up with that machine someday and probably for a song. Of course I'll help her in any way I can but there'll come a point when it'll be beyond just maintenance and I know she won't take it to a dealer. Being a Honda, and especially this model, it'll probably be years before it finally gives in to the abuse and neglect. Just sad.