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  1. Uncomfortable seats

    Dang, 62 beats me too - almost 61 here! Made me smile when lots of people were saying this was a car only a teenager would drive (they clearly forgot the soon-to-be-pensioner market). :D FWIW, I've done a number of trips spending 11 hours in the car in a day, with no back problems whatsoever...
  2. Cruise Control Issue

    Interesting you mention that ACC is different - my UK "GT" spec car has "Intelligent Adaptive Cruise Control" which works very well. Do the North American cars have non-adaptive cruise control? I know there were some differences in spec from what we get in the UK, so if IACC being scaled down to...
  3. Cruise Control Issue

    Mine works as it says in the manual, i.e. one click changes it by 1 mph. It's probably not exactly 1 mph because occasionally it doesn't go up to the next mph or it may go up by 2 mph, which I'm assuming is just a rounding issue somewhere in the software or the speedo reading. But it almost...
  4. The Infamous 2nd Gear Crunch

    I don't know whether heat is a factor in some grinds (I guess there could be more than one factor involved), but before the transmission was replaced I had grinds several times changing first to second, and on at least a couple of occasions it was within two or three minutes of leaving home on a...
  5. The Infamous 2nd Gear Crunch

    Done almost 1,000 miles since the replacement, so far so good. No more crunches. :thumbsup: Well Honda UK weren't confirming that there was an issue when they replaced my transmission, but at that stage I can understand why as I believe mine may have been the first UK car on which the problem...
  6. Random CTR Chat

    I did almost 11 hours in my FK8 on Sunday with no problems, no strains or pains at all. To be fair a lot of that was on freeway-style roads so not as much use of the clutch as you would do on a twisty road or a track, but then again some of it was in slow traffic where there was a lot of...
  7. The low speed brake squeal issue

    Not raining, was it? I live in a part of the country where it often rains - it's a region called "the UK". :D I guess I've been lucky, I did my usual brake-break-in routine on the CTR (in the dry surprisingly) and to date I don't think I've had a single brake squeal. Several second gear...
  8. TPMS Sensors

    No, I didn't get a chance to take any.
  9. TPMS Sensors

    I've seen it said on here several times that the CTR uses indirect tire pressure monitoring for the deflation warning system, via the ABS wheel speed sensor. Also, the manual for the UK car says the same thing, that there is no direct monitoring of tire pressure but instead the wheel rotation...
  10. Can you drive off with the parking brake on in your CTR? I can't.

    Yup, after seeing this thread earlier today I've just tried it, at least for going forwards. I knew the parking brake would come off automatically when pulling away as I have done that before, but I couldn't remember whether I'd done anything else like put my foot on the brake first, so I got...
  11. Random CTR Chat

    You weren't alone there! I suspect a lot of us would take a personal injury (within reason) over having the car possibly totalled. That's when you know you really like a car. Or of course it could just be that we're as mad as a box of frogs to think that way... :confused1: Wabby, really sorry...
  12. What did you do to your Type R today?

    Thought that said "yellow frogs", and I was looking forward to seeing where you'd installed them (presumably they'd be riveted in place...). :coffee: That Mugen ring looks neat. :thumbsup:
  13. Dutch Civic Type-R GT (red #7103)

    Never had the steering wheel shake yet on a lane change without a turn signal. Maybe that's because I usually only have lane keeping on when driving on multi-lane roads and in that case I never change lanes without using the turn signal (which is mandatory in the UK even if you wouldn't know...
  14. What did you do to your Type R today?

    Yes that makes sense. Sadly here we'll have much more rain than we will snow, so all we get are potholes that are full of water so you can't tell how deep they are, or sometimes even a large section of road that's all under water so you don't even know the pothole is there till you drop a wheel...
  15. JDM FK8 oil weight

    Don't know whether it's any help, but I posted before in other thread about what's in the UK manual, which oddly does mention more than one oil rating for South African cars.
  16. What did you do to your Type R today?

    As far as I could tell, the SottoZero 3 are also the only winter tires available in the UK for the stock wheel size. I couldn't see why they were ridiculously expensive compared to the same tire in 19" sizes till I noticed the 20" ones have "L" on the end of the spec, which is apparently because...
  17. CTR Rev Matching and Emissions Issues w/Check Engine light.

    Going by other things I've seen I guess you're probably right. Honda UK seem to be a bit more proactive, as they gave me a new transmission just because I told them I'd had the 2nd gear crunch several times, even though they couldn't make it happen themselves when they test drove it. Still, at...
  18. CTR Rev Matching and Emissions Issues w/Check Engine light.

    That's a shame. I collected mine on September 1st and the fix had already been done way back then. I guess being on Guam yours must have been in transit for a while so even if it hasn't sat anywhere waiting to be shipped it was probably built quite some time ago and maybe before they had...
  19. Windshield Wipers

    Not had any problems with my wipers other than the odd leaf getting caught under them, which I don't think I can really blame Honda for! They do the job - I've used them in everything from occasional splashes of rain to pretty heavy rain at night, and so far so good, I've always found an...


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