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03-02-2011, 11:23 AM
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EVO this month...
Interesting Buying Guide to the S in the Evo which arrived today - nice 54 plate car pictured and a good write up from the owner.
Article has the AP1/2 confusion but seems to get much about right.
Interestingly, the specialist garage they quote says the 04 cars had 20 lb ft more torque but Honda kept the original quoted output. Really? The same garage says "they all use oil" but that's not my experience of the post 04 cars.
Good to see a Buying Guide after all these issues!
(I did try to see if anyone had already posted on this, but the new site is a bit slow - apologies if anyone beat me to it)
Article has the AP1/2 confusion but seems to get much about right.
Interestingly, the specialist garage they quote says the 04 cars had 20 lb ft more torque but Honda kept the original quoted output. Really? The same garage says "they all use oil" but that's not my experience of the post 04 cars.
Good to see a Buying Guide after all these issues!
(I did try to see if anyone had already posted on this, but the new site is a bit slow - apologies if anyone beat me to it)
03-02-2011, 12:51 PM
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Yep just spotted that too.
I was most surprised to hear of the company mentioned as "experts" who i've never heard of! S2ki and uk were mentioned, therefore I thought DMS / TGM / GarageR would have been asked to comment.
Their advice re suspension and brakes seemed a little odd too.
I was most surprised to hear of the company mentioned as "experts" who i've never heard of! S2ki and uk were mentioned, therefore I thought DMS / TGM / GarageR would have been asked to comment.
Their advice re suspension and brakes seemed a little odd too.
03-02-2011, 10:45 PM
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Aluminium suspension arms?
Not when I last looked.
Poor article.
And for a magazine which prides itself on road testing performance cars, very suprised they preferred the softy back end of the 04-08 cars.
Interesting comment from the "specialist" that he had never seen any spots of body rust. That is completely misleading - all earlier cars should be checked for rust on the rear arches at least.
Not when I last looked.
Poor article.
And for a magazine which prides itself on road testing performance cars, very suprised they preferred the softy back end of the 04-08 cars.
Interesting comment from the "specialist" that he had never seen any spots of body rust. That is completely misleading - all earlier cars should be checked for rust on the rear arches at least.
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03-03-2011, 12:16 AM
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Many magazines purport dealers as being experts in the knowledge of a certain model of vehicle, when in fact it's entirely false.
Top Gear magazine of 2005 purported that a certain garage was an expert in dealing with GTi-6's; now you really should know your beans when it comes to this car. Yes, an engine is an engine, a head is a head, but there are massive do's and don't that come with this car, and the said garage blew my engine up, caused a HG failure first and then onto a big-end failure all by skimming the head (which isn't recommended).
Forensic Motoring Engineer laid blame with the garage entirely.
I'm therefore one never to believe what magazines say.
Top Gear magazine of 2005 purported that a certain garage was an expert in dealing with GTi-6's; now you really should know your beans when it comes to this car. Yes, an engine is an engine, a head is a head, but there are massive do's and don't that come with this car, and the said garage blew my engine up, caused a HG failure first and then onto a big-end failure all by skimming the head (which isn't recommended).
Forensic Motoring Engineer laid blame with the garage entirely.
I'm therefore one never to believe what magazines say.
03-03-2011, 02:59 AM
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Crikey, sounds catastrophic, how much did they skim off??
