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[Ghosty]

Done! Rear arches are good.

 

I'm pleased.

 

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[loserone]

Nice! Bet you'll love this.

[mrbenn]

Bloody lovely!

[xtriple]

i ARE OFFICIALLY INSANE.  I have just washed ell dollop as the thought of salt on its flanks was hurting my thinking thing, it is still effin' cold and wrapped up in a big coat and hat washng your car seems to make people ponder as to your suitability to live in society.

 

Still, no salt on her, one less excuse for her to go rusty and dissolve on the roadway.

 

 

 

Also done the hoovering and walked the dogs. I am knackered an my body hurts from head to toe (slight exaggeration, my left little toe is fine) and I know that I am going to be in agony later. But still, it's done.

[mrbenn]

Well worth it to get the salt off! Hateful stuff.

[Kiltox]

That looks nice Ghosty - dealership* looks a bit dodgy mind

[Supernaut]

i ARE OFFICIALLY INSANE.  I have just washed ell dollop as the thought of salt on its flanks was hurting my thinking thing, it is still effin' cold and wrapped up in a big coat and hat washng your car seems to make people ponder as to your suitability to live in society.

 

Still, no salt on her, one less excuse for her to go rusty and dissolve on the roadway.

 

 

 

Also done the hoovering and walked the dogs. I am knackered an my body hurts from head to toe (slight exaggeration, my left little toe is fine) and I know that I am going to be in agony later. But still, it's done.

You know what's also insane?

 

It's quite mild up in Aberdeen today, yet you're still talking about it being cold down in Cornwall! Ha!

[Ghosty]

Home!

 

Prelude drives lovely. Paid a bit more than I wanted, but it's super tidy all round, 2.0 auto, local (Blackburn) and low miles (106k). 3 keys, service history, 3 previous owners blah blah.

 

It's a lot easier to drive sensibly than the Volvo as well, and does a lot better on fuel, one of my main reasons for changing.

 

Arches are mostly good (especially by 90s Honda standards) with a little bubbling at the back but nothing serious. Power delivery is silky smooth and as DW mentioned the steering is ace.

It's just like the 200 I had but bigger and more refined, which is what I wanted really.

Couple of niggly bits like a non-working sunroof (surprise) and broken trip counter, but everything else is good.

Points of order:

 

new ATF (piece of piss)

change radio as it's a bit Carlos Fandango

front shocks

drive

[xtriple]

You know what's also insane?

 

It's quite mild up in Aberdeen today, yet you're still talking about it being cold down in Cornwall! Ha!

Ha ha ha, you are insane, I'm in Devon not Cornwall! Ha ha ha ha ha. You got it wrong, you is a fooooool!

[egg]

today, I had to help an owner save their dog from drowning in the sea! We all survived.

[Vince70]

The Rover 400 of doom went in for its MOT today and it’s failed on a brake imbalance and rear trailing arm bushes.

The garage said it will go through for about £200 spent including the cost of the ticket.

So the old Ronda gets a reprieve for another year.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Home!

 

Prelude drives lovely. Paid a bit more than I wanted, but it's super tidy all round, 2.0 auto, local (Blackburn) and low miles (106k). 3 keys, service history, 3 previous owners blah blah.

 

It's a lot easier to drive sensibly than the Volvo as well, and does a lot better on fuel, one of my main reasons for changing.

 

Arches are mostly good (especially by 90s Honda standards) with a little bubbling at the back but nothing serious. Power delivery is silky smooth and as DW mentioned the steering is ace.

It's just like the 200 I had but bigger and more refined, which is what I wanted really.

Couple of niggly bits like a non-working sunroof (surprise) and broken trip counter, but everything else is good.

 

Points of order:

 

new ATF (piece of piss)

change radio as it's a bit Carlos Fandango

drive

Absolutely love these, as did Setright as you'll be well aware but I'll post this here anyway:

 

https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/features/car-culture/ljk-setrights-favourite-cars-revealed-car-archive-october-1992/

 

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[timolloyd]

I loved my Prelude - a red 2.2 manual. Think that generation design has aged really well. Shame there aren't more about.

[Ghosty]

I loved my Prelude - a red 2.2 manual. Think that generation design has aged really well. Shame there aren't more about.

2.0 auto for me. I agree, the interior is fantastic, with just the right balance of sensibility and unique Honda weirdness and the car has a modern driving 'feel' like a much newer sporty/handling oriented car (made me think of Binis).

It is indeed a shame they're uncommon, hence me snapping this one up. Rusty manuals, or 2.2/2.3s show up fairly often at around £800 but they're thrashed to an inch of their lives, and generally not great. This one was a smidge over a grand but I feel it's worth it.

 

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[dollywobbler]

That looks a great buy. Fantastic colour. I'd recommend flushing the entire transmission lines if you can. That's what the chap did with my S-MX, and it did improve matters. Think he took all the solenoids off to clear any crud out of their little gauze filters too. Shame they're such a fragile gearbox, as they work well when fit. 

[Ghosty]

The colour is lovely isnt it? Cassis Red Pearl, so probably a cost option, as were the wheels (they're in the accessory brochure which is on Flickr). Car also has J9MAY etched in all the glass and on the service book, plate was on it from new and through the second owners time with it.

Well used to the autoboxes - Old Man had one ten years ago (will have to find a pic) and we all loved it, and this is the fourth auto Honda we've had ('98 Prelude, '00 Civic, '94 216, '93 Prelude). It's in good hands, and I'm well used to the D and F series engines too. They're cracking.

[somewhatfoolish]

Is it a conventional slushbox? The valve block is often quite easy to remove and clean, access issues not withstanding.

[Ghosty]

4 speed torque converter with some electronic control. ATF changes are a piece of piss anyway, takes five minutes on a Civic.

[dave21478]

Loving that Prelude - it looks much more modern than a K reg numberplate would suggest.

[stuboy]

Delivery of 40 water bottles came to work and artic too big too deliver where needed so thought just lob into company car..

[taxi paul]

Talking to one of the dads at school today. He bought a 1.9 diesel zafira from one of them can't get credit car places about 10 months ago. Tells me it's in the garage due to lots of smoke and stuff. Verdict is rings have gone and.other stuff so it's 3 grand for a rebuild or get another engine and swap for around 2 grand. He hasn't got a pot to piss in so is knackered. I think he said he pays £150.00 a month over five years for a 10 plate zafira with 98,000 miles on when he bought it. He thinks he may have a 12 month warranty but doesn't know. He said the salesman said it did but it isn't on the paperwork. Felt a bit last telling him how I had scrapped the primera and lost £150.00.

[mercrocker]

I do feel sorry for blokes like that....When I was skint, with young kids/step-kids after a messy divorce with a house re-possession in my all-too recent history I was in exactly that situation.   Used to borrow a one-r off my Nan and get something out of the newsagent's window - knackered Asconas, Cortinas that kind of thing.   Would usually get a year out of them and sack them off up the auction with a week's MOT left.   Got to be better than those loan-slavery deals.

[junkyarddog]

I have a 2.2 vtec Prelude in the shed.

Was my daily for 7 years.

Lovely cruiser and good reliability.

Went like shit off a shovel when vtec kicked in yo!

Mine is a 1991 JDM.

I'm sitting on it until it turns 30 and will get on the cheap tax rate.

 

Yours looks a good one.

Enjoy.

[mercrocker]

Some frantic chod-bothering occurred today.   I start work at midday (12-10pm so it's not a half-day!) and have a day off on Thursday which I have used to book the T25 in for its annual MOT and service.   

 

However, the T25 lives six miles away so it needed getting out of storage today.   As usual, lack of planning left the battery disconnected and unsecured in its box and tyres still on +20psi for storage purposes so there was a bit of messing about to do there as well as an impromptu electrical check for the MOT.   Left the Fiesta up the unit for the time being.   

 

Got home with the van and started to make my sandwiches for work when the other garage I use rang to say they had done the Cowley MOT and finally fitted the handbrake cable that has been a three-week saga.   Would I like to collect it?   Well, yes, I would but it's about 800 yards from where I had just been to get the van... 

 

Had to wait for Mrs Rocker to get home from physiotherapy, whisk me up to get the Cowley which rewarded me for not seeing it for three weeks by running like a bag of shit for 3 miles.   I know why, a fuel filter needs changing and it must have been running on sediment.   A good 70 mph blast up the motorway after I warmed it up and it cleared OK.   Just about top whack for the old girl, that is!    Both vehicles needed a full tank of fresh fuel so that was me down a hundred quid on the day already.

 

Having so much fun I nearly forgot about work so had to call in and say I was running late.....Went without my bloody sandwiches too.

[320touring]

^doin it in style:)

[Ghosty]

credit nonsense

Sale of Goods Act/similar legislation no good in this case??

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yeah good luck with that one Lynne Faulds-Wood!

[Ghosty]

LOL

 

 

Quirk of the Prelude: the stalks are the correct way round, indicators on the right, wipers on the left (then again the Prelude is natively RHD). First car I've had that's so, even the R8 has the stalks the 'wrong' way round.

 

I've bloody missed Honda switchgear, it's really good quality stuff. How someone managed to break the trip counter I've no idea - but I can't see the reset switch either.

[Ghosty]

Reading the book it appears I'm on cambelt roulette! 

Considering I've done a D series head gasket and have the relevant locking tool, this won't be hard.

[chatsharris]

My D Series engine never had a cambelt done - it lasted about 150k before it got bridged for unrelated things.