Post a picture of your car here Part 4 (quote a picture, get a 24h ban!!)

robbiew

Well wear tt

bbari

Titzon Toast wrote:

I bought this on Sunday, it's one of the cleanest cars I've ever seen and it's got an amazing service history with every receipt and NCT cert up to it's current 96k miles. I know it's gonna drink petrol and being a 2.2 it's a pig to tax but I don't care! Life is short and I want to have some fun.

I saw a same one in Lucan on Sunday morning. I had a Prelude for couple of years till i became daddy. My all time favourite. All the best

Wibbs

'Kin sweet Honda TT! *thumbsup* and it's a minter by the looks of it. Very nice.

Autosport

Best of luck with the new motor, I like the houses

GvidoR

Nice Prelude.

I don't what you were doing with the number plate, it's still clearly visible. :P

Titzon Toast

GvidoR wrote: »

Nice Prelude.

I don't what you were doing with the number plate, it's still clearly visible. :P

I don't know what I was doing there either tbh,
I've seen other folk blanking there's out so I thought I'd try the same (badly) for some reason.

Sure how many people see your reg when you're just driving around anyway?!

I'm delighted with the car so far, I like fact that it's completely stock. The temptation is there to do one or two small things here and there though.

Quazzie

CianDon wrote: »

After a heavy night at a family wedding on Friday, the only right job to blow off the cobwebs and clear the head on Saturday was to take the wee Puglet for a run up the mountains. For a 1.1 litre, 20 year old city car, by god the handling would put a serious grin on your face.

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Where is that Cian?

chriity139

Lovely prelude. They are a cracking car

Wibbs

Titzon Toast wrote: »

I'm delighted with the car so far, I like fact that it's completely stock. The temptation is there to do one or two small things here and there though.

Stock is good. If I was doing anything I'd make it easily reversible. OK Preludes didn't suffer the drove through Halfords covered in glue of other Hondas like the Integra or especially the Civics. They were a more "adult" car, but I'd reckon there are precious few left in the stock condition your beauty is. I reckon we'll look back at that period from say the mid 80's to say 2000 as a real peak in car design and production. That sweet spot between unreliability/more hands on and the push a button for "soul" of the cars since then.

Marty McFly

Wibbs wrote: »

Stock is good. If I was doing anything I'd make it easily reversible. OK Preludes didn't suffer the drove through Halfords covered in glue of other Hondas like the Integra or especially the Civics. They were a more "adult" car, but I'd reckon there are precious few left in the stock condition your beauty is. I reckon we'll look back at that period from say the mid 80's to say 2000 as a real peak in car design and production. That sweet spot between unreliability/more hands on and the push a button for "soul" of the cars since then.

I think the reason Preludes weren't as molested as Civics and Integras is because they were a 2.2.

Most people's cut off in Ireland is and was the 2.0 tax

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Marty McFly wrote: »

I think the reason Preludes weren't as molested as Civics and Integras is because they were a 2.2.

Most people's cut off in Ireland is and was the 2.0 tax

Not just that they were a 2.2, but that partly because there was no "1.6 granny spec on de logbook" version that they could be taxed and insured as with a little bit of cute hoorism.

LawlessBoy

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Not just that they were a 2.2, but that partly because there was no "1.6 granny spec on de logbook" version that they could be taxed and insured as with a little bit of cute hoorism.

Theyre really starting to clamp down on that now too, local lad i know is after getting a ban because of it. Dropped a b16 into a 1.4 civic and was banned because of it when he was stopped.

rizzodun

LawlessBoy wrote: »

Theyre really starting to clamp down on that now too, local lad i know is after getting a ban because of it. Dropped a b16 into a 1.4 civic and was banned because of it when he was stopped.

Serves him right too, just pay the tax and insurance or suffer with a 1.0 micra and be happy you can leave the house.

Jesus.

LawlessBoy wrote: »

Theyre really starting to clamp down on that now too, local lad i know is after getting a ban because of it. Dropped a b16 into a 1.4 civic and was banned because of it when he was stopped.

How'd they know what engine he had?

Duke O Smiley

THE GOVERNMENT WILL NEVER KNOW HOW MANY VALVES I HAVE UNDER MY BONNET

*adjusts tinfoil hat*

LawlessBoy

Jesus. wrote: »

How'd they know what engine he had?

Havent a clue dont speak to him personally was common knowledge though that it wasnt a 1.4

Donnelly117

Jesus. wrote: »

How'd they know what engine he had?

Happened across a guard who knows his Hondas perhaps?
Not an unreasonable request to pop the bonnet if your so called 1.4 civic is caught hauling ass is imagine?

Foxhole Norman

Jesus. wrote: »

How'd they know what engine he had?

Quite a considerable difference between a B16 and a regular 1.3/1.4 in a Civic, for one, VTEC.

JohnBoy26

Jesus. wrote: »

How'd they know what engine he had?

I'll take a guess here but I think they might of opened the bonnet

1.4 d series


1.6 b16

LawlessBoy

True its not hard at all the tell the difference

Asmooh

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Quite a considerable difference between a B16 and a regular 1.3/1.4 in a Civic, for one, VTEC.

Good point but you can put a d16z6 vtec head on a d14a engine and have a 1.4 + vtec and 130hp. If you tune it a bit you go up to 135/140hp or 150 if you go for ITB's

JohnBoy26

Asmooh wrote: »

Good point but you can put a d16z6 vtec head on a d14a engine and have a 1.4 + vtec and 130hp. If you tune it a bit you go up to 135/140hp or 150 if you go for ITB's

The d16 VTEC is around 120bhp, it's nothing special though and isn't really massively better than a 1.4

A b16 is on another level altogether.

dar83

Pulled up to park at this exact moment yesterday without even realising it before hand...






(Didn't notice that smudge until just now either, can't see it in normal light in the car, but it shall be microfibred away! :P )

GvidoR

1000 km... I can't even...

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GvidoR wrote: »

1000 km... I can't even...

I don't think I'd be even able to drive a car with a 3digit km figure on the odometer.
So used to 6digits I'd be just watching the thing clock up rather than watching the road!

5W30

Special Circumstances wrote: »

I don't think I'd be even able to drive a car with a 3digit km figure on the odometer.
So used to 6digits I'd be just watching the thing clock up rather than watching the road!

I reckon you'd have great fun with the trip meters so :pac:

Toyotafanboi

Special Circumstances wrote: »

I don't think I'd be even able to drive a car with a 3digit km figure on the odometer.
So used to 6digits I'd be just watching the thing clock up rather than watching the road!

Same! Used to feel awful heading home with dad years ago when he'd pick up a new car, watching double digits turn into triple, knowing there'd never be a blank space there again. A bit weird really! I'd be too busy swerving for flies and trying not to shed too much skin on the gearknob and stuff

I don't have that problem with the Celica :pac:

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5W30 wrote: »

I reckon you'd have great fun with the trip meters so :pac:

That just reminds me how long since I spent €70 and a rough guess at how long before it needs it again!
Owning a brand spanking new car is just an alien concept to me.

5W30

Special Circumstances wrote: »

That just reminds me how long since I spent €70 and a rough guess at how long before it needs it again!
Owning a brand spanking new car is just an alien concept to me.

I don't know if I'd like it personally. When you buy the car it's a new car and as the mileage goes up it just seems to get old

Sub €1000 cars is where the fun is at :pac:

Special Circumstances

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Same! Used to feel awful heading home with dad years ago when he'd pick up a new car, watching double digits turn into triple, knowing there'd never be a blank space there again. A bit weird really!

Very philosophical, the inexorable march unto the grave ha.