8 Year S2000 owner
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8 Year S2000 owner
Hello everyone! I've actually been a S2000 owner already for 8 years, and I've even been on this forum a few times looking up information or how-to guides. I made the realization today that I've never actually *registered* or posted on this forum!
A bit about my S2000:
It's a 2000 year model, Silverstone metallic, black interior. It has just shy of 250,000 miles on it. It's all stock except for an AEM V2 cold air intake that the previous owner put on it, and a Kenwood KDC-MP342U with 3-in-1 speakers (nothing fancy there, but it allows for clear audio with the kind of music I listen to with the top down at 80 mph, unlike the stock system).
I bought it in Illinois when I was 19 just after my first year in college and had it on campus in Arizona from fall 2008 through spring 2011 (when I graduated), driving it back and forth to Arkansas for the summers. After that I moved out here to Virginia with it, using it as my daily driver until a year or so ago when my wife and I started working in the same building. I've been in it as far west as San Diego, and as far east as Baltimore and Philadelphia.
I've done most of the minor maintenance on it myself, including brake pads, oil changes, spark plugs and ignition coils, new strikers for the top, all 4 brake calipers (had a front one and a rear one start sticking on me at different times), the radiator (that one was so easy!), and the rear shocks (not as easy!). For a few of these I came here, I think I found out about hardtopguy.com from this forum.
The S2000 community is fantastic, with all of the detailed how-to guides on here, and I've had service technicians who owned S2000s at Honda dealers go out of their way to help me out. One was at Bell Honda in Phoenix in 2011. I had had an oil change done elsewhere while getting new tires put on... the best we could figure is that they over-tightened the oil drain plug and stripped the threads a bit, because the plug blew out while I was moving to pass a car on I-17. I needed it fixed quickly since it was right before graduation weekend and I was about to drive 1200 miles to get home, and the dealer themselves didn't have an oil pan in stock... one of the service techs knew a guy in a S2000 club that happened to have a new oil pan, so he rang him up, he brought it by, sold it to me at a reasonable price, and they had me back on the road the next day!
Unfortunately one of the reasons why I'm finally making an account on here is because I'm in the market to sell my S2000 (that'll be a different post...). It's been an excellent car, and I've literally been from one side of the country to the other in it, but I've given in to the dark side and gone the hatchback route for practicality/comfort reasons. The practicality reason is mine... I like to goto the range fairly often and I'm in the Army Reserve, so my gear doesn't always fit nicely in the trunk. The comfort reason is really more my wife's, as her back doesn't agree with the S2000's seats or suspension, so we end up driving her car when we're commuting. I never thought I'd buy a car on any principle other than how good it is to drive, but I don't have a third garage space to keep the S2000 in once the new car arrives, and I wouldn't want to just park it in the driveway and only drive it on weekends at most, so... I'm letting it go -.-
A bit about my S2000:
It's a 2000 year model, Silverstone metallic, black interior. It has just shy of 250,000 miles on it. It's all stock except for an AEM V2 cold air intake that the previous owner put on it, and a Kenwood KDC-MP342U with 3-in-1 speakers (nothing fancy there, but it allows for clear audio with the kind of music I listen to with the top down at 80 mph, unlike the stock system).
I bought it in Illinois when I was 19 just after my first year in college and had it on campus in Arizona from fall 2008 through spring 2011 (when I graduated), driving it back and forth to Arkansas for the summers. After that I moved out here to Virginia with it, using it as my daily driver until a year or so ago when my wife and I started working in the same building. I've been in it as far west as San Diego, and as far east as Baltimore and Philadelphia.
I've done most of the minor maintenance on it myself, including brake pads, oil changes, spark plugs and ignition coils, new strikers for the top, all 4 brake calipers (had a front one and a rear one start sticking on me at different times), the radiator (that one was so easy!), and the rear shocks (not as easy!). For a few of these I came here, I think I found out about hardtopguy.com from this forum.
The S2000 community is fantastic, with all of the detailed how-to guides on here, and I've had service technicians who owned S2000s at Honda dealers go out of their way to help me out. One was at Bell Honda in Phoenix in 2011. I had had an oil change done elsewhere while getting new tires put on... the best we could figure is that they over-tightened the oil drain plug and stripped the threads a bit, because the plug blew out while I was moving to pass a car on I-17. I needed it fixed quickly since it was right before graduation weekend and I was about to drive 1200 miles to get home, and the dealer themselves didn't have an oil pan in stock... one of the service techs knew a guy in a S2000 club that happened to have a new oil pan, so he rang him up, he brought it by, sold it to me at a reasonable price, and they had me back on the road the next day!
Unfortunately one of the reasons why I'm finally making an account on here is because I'm in the market to sell my S2000 (that'll be a different post...). It's been an excellent car, and I've literally been from one side of the country to the other in it, but I've given in to the dark side and gone the hatchback route for practicality/comfort reasons. The practicality reason is mine... I like to goto the range fairly often and I'm in the Army Reserve, so my gear doesn't always fit nicely in the trunk. The comfort reason is really more my wife's, as her back doesn't agree with the S2000's seats or suspension, so we end up driving her car when we're commuting. I never thought I'd buy a car on any principle other than how good it is to drive, but I don't have a third garage space to keep the S2000 in once the new car arrives, and I wouldn't want to just park it in the driveway and only drive it on weekends at most, so... I'm letting it go -.-
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