I sold my ā18 Si for a profit something like a year or year and a half ago and said I wasnāt going to buy another used car again in 2022, because the prices were wild. I figured we could get by with one family vehicle in the Odyssey and the truck and Z could split DD duties for me when Iām home...
I had a ā15 Si and traded it out for a ā18 Si. The 10th gen was better than the old K24 car in every way I objectively/subjectively measure, powertrain included as long as you kept the K24 NA. I contemplated going FI on the K24 but it still would have been a far inferior car compared to the 10th...
Iād buy my ā18 Si in late ā17 again for the 23.5k I paid for it.
ā¦and even if the used car markets hadnāt driven me to sell it at a profit, Iād of traded it out by now. But the issue lies with me, not the car. Iām a car whore through and through. It is, after 25 or so years of having cars, the...
I sold my Civic a year or two ago now and I still come around now and then. Thereās been a lot of good folks on this forum Iāve interacted with over the years. Youāre the top of the heap, Mitch.
It did used to be a bit more Wild West when we didnāt know much about the cars.
I think youāre seeing a lot of the first owners come and go and the 2nd owner crowd doing a lot of lurking of our old posts. I donāt know this for sure, but Iād bet the site gets more non-member traffic just poking...
Not great.
I looked at the local salvage yards down in Jacksonville for the sake of fun and there arenāt any 10th gens/CRVs/Accords to snag anything from. I planned a trip in the coming days and would have sent you a care package if I could have.
I would never of thought such a critical item...
Iāll be sadly under the water this year. The Civic has been gone awhile but would have loved to be a party crasher in the old Z.
If anyone is on the fence on goingā¦ DO IT. My whole family of 5 packed in the Civic and drove from SE GA to attend. The kids still talk about it. I managed to make my...
Yeah. I had been offered around 20k 6 months earlier as a trade for it but was lukewarm about the cars I was thinking of replacing it with. When Carmax offered more than I paid for it straight upā¦ I took the money and ran. I assumed it was a relatively short window that I could manage to recoup...
I got cut a check for $25.4 almost exactly 1 year ago for my ā18 Si that had 40k miles. I never checked back but often wonder what they managed to sell it for.
There was a gas station off I-95 where I live that got in trouble by having water-contaminated fuel. Itās been going for a long time, but Iād try getting fuel elsewhere just to test that variable in case youāre getting junky gasā¦ especially if you consistently buy from the same location. I...
I thought it was a very safe and low cost move for Honda. They repackaged the same car in a lot of ways and put it back out there and just focused on criticisms. They gave it a good price hike which was inevitable given the markets and inflation and had to remove features to make the Integra...
Manā¦ I took my VR headset underway over the summer and entertained folks by standing over in the corner in one of the few spots on the boat where I could flail without hitting anyone/thing and managed to practice up to where I could pass a bunch of songs on expert on Beat Saber.
My young kids...
Pretty cool. I just had a 98+ spec new transmission added to my old ā94 twin turbo early this year and my wife added a new head unit while I was out to sea this summer that does all the Apple car play tricks to modernize it a smidge. Iād like to see a new Z in person and drive oneā¦ but I would...
I personally love the idea of having an engine work to build boost then just venting all that work to atmosphere vice recircing it to maintain a good spool. Makes sense to me. š¤
Maybe newer cars donāt run pig rich when you lift with something more than MAFā¦ or not as bad. My 300zx definitely...
Youre right. I think I was thinking of cobalt. Pretty sure that was the one element they were trying to scale down the use of if they can to reduce costā¦ and the PITA aspects of mining and recycling. Thanks for the correction.
I do think EV battery lifespan is still a concern and given how integrated they are into a vehicles chassis or buried in the interior and the lack of parts on the aftermarket makes them a bit of a scare to replaceā¦ Things are moving quickly though.
EV1 started out with lead acid batteries when...
One thing also Iām really interested in is, in the coming years, lithium recycling is as effective as lead recycling for lead-acid automotive batteries. 99+% of all lead acid batteries are recycled and really cuts the material cost. The price is honestly ridiculous IMO as the material cost of a...
ā¦I will say that Iām about to call Tesla a āsuccessā in my eyes.
My metric was when I saw more Teslas on the road than Pontiacs. I live in a poor-to-middle class kind of town and itās getting close as older Pontiacs die and more folks buy Teslas. I can definitely say that, these days, the...