Habitforming

I'm far from the first, and sadly won't be the last... but I bet I've got one of the highest miles for this to be noticed.

As I'm prepping for a trip to the Dragon this weekend, I have the car up on jackstands changing trans oil etc. I jsut happen to roll under the driver's side wheel well and look up, to see the dreaded spring spacer. Absolutely unbelieveable.

Just off the top of my head, the many times this should have been seen:

- Delivery inspection for first owner
- Who knows how many Honda vists for first owner (15k miles)
- 5 Honda visits with me as owner, including 24k check-up
- 4 alignments
- 2 body shop visits (included suspension check due to off-road excursion)
- countless times of me under it, including changing brakes, replacing brake lines, even changing the clutch!

This is disgraceful for everyone involved, most notably myself. I even stood there and laughed at another guy when someone noticed them at a meet (he had only had his a few hundred miles from new).

38,000 miles! It's been through 4 trips to the dragon, 2 agressive track days, a couple autocross events, numerous road trips, 130mph+ a couple times...

In the end, I guess I'm lucky it didn't turn out worse. I doubt Honda would do anything at this point to make amends, plus I have myself to blame quite nearly as much. Going to take it out now, which will throw off alignment for the Dragon trip this weekend. Nothing to do about it at this point though. I'll have to get re-aligned next week...

Slows2k

Local guy just found some at 53K...

Habitforming

i never win anything

batguano

Be thankful the Gods were favorable to you.

Wow

parkerdt

I've never seen one of these spacers - what do they look like?

Blacknot

That's crazy!!

freq

Just think how much better a driver you'll be now.

@ not ever winning anything.

No VTEC for 1 month for you.

Ferboi

I remember there was one guy who had 70k ahha. Anyways atleast you have em off now. I didn't know i had mine on until 1k miles

C8V6C

Wow, that is crazy...mine didnt have them though...and I changed the springs anyways

Habitforming

if you look at the picture of my suspension (first post), there is a black rubber piece at the back of the frame, or the inboard side of the spring. It has 4 or 5 "knobs" on it. That should NOT be there!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE check both your own car and your wife's, before hitting the road this week!!!