The only Honda I'd buy is a first gen insight.

 

 

Nah, I'm dead serious. Haha I used to own one as a commuter car and they have a huge modding community. Instead of hot rodding for hp tho you hot rod for mpg. Best lifetime mileage someone had on the forum I used to go on was 84mpg . Its just fun to make cars work to their optimum levels. Some people would turbo them and still get like 71mpg lifetime mileage. Big modding community as funny as it may seem.

I just hate a lot of things about Hondas. Like their fuggin egr systems. So annoying. And how they just feel like go karts. I love the 25:1 Afr at cruise tho. Ain't no thang to get 75mpg on a trip to vegas if you drive it right. Even in some non hybrids.

 

What's wrong with their EGR system? (Serious question)

 

Its like a big canister that's a valve that sends exhaust gasses into this aluminum plate between the intake manifold and block. This plate has a maze of routes for the gasses and holes to distribute the gasses evenly into each cylinder. So the valve works with a potentiometer and the wiper on the pot wears out and their egr valves are really expensive to replace and diy'ers have only sometimes been able to clip the pot and get a new wiping surface. Beyond that, the plate under the intake manifold gets clogged a lot and you have to clean them. The new metal manifold gasket is a Honda only part that costs like $50 every time you take off the manifold.

Works great when everything clean and/or new, but once everything gets dirty it starts making this jerking motion at certain cruising Rpms and you gotta take crap apart, and buy expensive parts to fix it.

 

Best Honda on the planet, it's what I use to mow my yards!
Gary

 

How did this thread become a bagging on Hondas thread?

Let's not kid ourselves... Honda makes great vehicles and engines in general.

 

Bag on the phaggy time Honda owners... Never the cars

 

Ladies, ladies, ladies..

No ones bagging on Hondas..except maybe Gary..I dunno. He's hard to interperate sometimes.. Now, let's all get back in our Honda Miatas (s2k) and drift outta here..

 

Honda make some kick ads motorcycles.

 

My only complaint with Honda is that they are all wrong wheel drive, and the boi racer drift punk in me likes sidewaysness. and Dirty what you talkin bout with having to take **** apart and clean it I put almost 50k on my accord before I sold it and never had to do that.

 

You may not have ever done it, but it would have benefitted from cleaning the egr plate. Its kinda like cleaning our throttle bodies. Some have to do it more than others. Probably has to do with how well you maintain other things, driving style, the gas you buy, etc. My insight had 120k miles on it tho with the original air filter, so it was probably an extreme case.

 

Civic checkin in. Never did anything like that.
250k miles. Original clutch too
*** wit Honda u kno dey got it

 

Ya'll be crazy. I know I've heard of other Hondas doing this. Not sure why the problem may be more prevalent in the insight. I mean its basically a 1.0 liter 3 cylinder v-tech motor hooked up to some D batteries for assist. Whatevs.

 

Honda's OK. I'm just not a fan of FWD, 4-cyl cars (for obvious reasons)