So this is a tiny tiny little issue that has escalated into making things a PITA for turning my DD into a track rat as well. It's the inability to disable VSA/Traction control without the presence of the TPMS sensors. Honda's system won't work with the pipe bomb method and it would require me to have a cloned set of sensors. It just seems like such an inconvenience to swap on a second set of wheels and tires and an unnecessary cost. On the bright side it has me leaving this car stock for the time being and I've been looking at potential chump car/crap can/lemons mobiles instead. Tax monies away!
Anyone else have a similar experience/issue?
Yes, because I'm afraid of destroying it and I'm afraid of selling it in case it gets destroyed by the next owner.
oldtin
UltraDork
2/4/14 2:58 p.m.
-17* temperatures and oh so toasty heated seats and a heated steering wheel to boot.
Yep. Automatic transmission in a FWD econobox. Kills it every time for me.
I've lost interest in many cars before buying them just because of their weight.
94 MUSTANG V6 auto stripped down model with power nothing. There was no point to trying to make it in to anything other than the appliance it already is.
A stick fell out of a tree during a hurricane and dented the top crease on the drivers door on my truck. I carry high deductibles so it wasn't worth messing with insurance about. I also didn't want to pay someone to fix that one dent, so it sits there. I probably would have put a single turbo on the truck and made it fast, but who wants a fast truck with a dent in the door? That dent has saved me from a lot of poor decisions.
Yes. I bought a 2nd race car and now I don't want to fix the first one.
turboswede wrote:
Bobzilla wrote:
Yep. Automatic transmission in a FWD econobox. Kills it every time for me.
LFB = fun
Brake stands = fun
Neutral drops = fun
No. Not with 110hp and a slushbox. None of that becomes fun. It DOES make a nice commuter car though.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:
Yes. I bought a 2nd race car and now I don't want to fix the first one.
This is a dangerous hole to fall into.
~10 mpg all winter and $3.30/Gallon on the truck and RUST on the Protege5.
50 mpg tdi. I could easily get more power out of it but then what ?
I remember this story vividly. My father bought a used, rough around the edges '64 Corvette in the late 70's. We were fixing little things on it and gradually making it a nice car. One day he pulled the interior panels out. On the inside of a panel, written in grease pen, was the message, "If you bought this car, you've been f***ed."
My father grunted, paused, slowly nodded, put the panel back on the car, reassembled everything, and sold the car the next week.
The moment I started working on my first e30, I suddenly had no interest in any additional modding of my WRX or my GT6. e30 is easier to do anything to, makes more sense, bolts don't strip or break, and junkyard parts are easy.
WRX is a PITA to do anything in the engine bay, and parts are never cheap. GT6 parts are always hard to find, and half the time they don't fit correctly, and if they do, they never seem to improve the car anyhow...
Duke
UltimaDork
2/4/14 4:44 p.m.
Having done a 2.0 SOHC -> 2.4 DOHC swap on my wife's Neon completely cured me of the urge to touch anything other than consumables and OEM replacements on her TSX.
