Re: i CRASHED the 3gee :(
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Originally Posted by MECM
I have been driving since I was like 7 Just not on the street!.
me too, i learnt in our old van at this abandoned place by a bmx track, and the car park across the road :)
Re: i CRASHED the 3gee :(
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Originally Posted by forrest89sei
You shouldn't Feel bad:
[B]My Parents got the car and used it before I got it last year after Selling my Cadillac, So heres there investment:
Cost of Car w/ 178,000 Miles: $2,500 (7-12-2001)
Clutch: $500
Front Calipers $300
Radiator: $300
Coolant Hoses: $100
Dizzy Cap, Plugs, Rotor: $140
Full Brake System: $1,200 (Due to improper install and ware of other parts)
Distributor: $140
NEW Cardone CV Half Shafts: $200 * I Bought Them
Used SE-i Wheels: $150 * I bought Them
Tires for SE-i Wheels: $350
KYB Struts: $230
Upper Rear Control Arms: $130
Install of Struts, Upper Control Arms, Dizzy: $400
Now When I took the car Over:
Fuel Filters: $20
K&N Air Filter: $47
Catco Bolt-On Cat converter: $90
Seals for exhaust: $10
Muffler :$80
Other Exhaust Pipe: $80
Flex Pipe: $110
Rebuilt Carb/Intake Mani/Alternator/O2 Sensor: $215
Exhaust Mani: $30
100 Feet of Vacuum Line from Ebay: $25
Check Valves, Bolts, Other Misc Needed or Missing Parts From Honda: $100
Tail Light Seals and Body Seals: $100
1997 Prelude CD Player: $80
OEM Brown Add On armrest: $40
So Total Family Interest In this car $7,697!
and the suck thing is it's a car that I don't feel like having a future with!
It smokes bad when I shift it, and it has decent rust, including the dreaded Wheel arch rust that has made a small hole in the arches.
So even know I feel stupid for what I invested in the car least it's a lot less then what my parents invested! One of the reason costs are so much for my parents are due to having a lot of mechanics screw them over.
My plan with the car is to Get a LX-i or SE-i and trade over any parts then can be traded, and Swap the old parts over to the LX and sell it.
LOL I have enough in mine to go to the dealer and buy a brand new accord and half of an accord,talking fully loaded one. at sticker price. and thats just in over the counter parts. that doesn't include about 6000 labor hours and what all the custom made parts would cost to have done.
Re: i CRASHED the 3gee :(
any yeah i can drive a stick i was tout how to but i was in a hurry i wanted to finish sanding.. i drag the clutch out slowy untel the car start moving then give it some gas slowy most of the time...this time i just put the clutch in gave it some gas and droped the clutch lol....
any way i will get a pic of the garage next time i take pics of the car
Re: i CRASHED the 3gee :(
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Originally Posted by MessyHonda
when i bought my 3gee i had to teach my self how to drive stick....i have less than a year...i learn the hard way...learn where all your gears are or when you try to downshift to 3rd gear you dont end up in 1st gear.
haha, i had to learn to drive stick very quickly. my cousin was feeling ill and she just said "i don't feel well, drive for me" and pulled over. but it was all good. i'd driven a few cars around parking lots (stalled my friends rsx-s so hard, he almost cried, lol), just never in actual traffic.
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Originally Posted by civic accord honda
opps lol i did meen $1200 not $2200
i did not pay my perrents paid and it was not sopose to be more then $400 but thay over crghed us when we went to pay there was $200 xtra for sels + this + that+and this and that and it came out to $1200 the only reson we paid it cuz we thout there was only minor rust hahahaha minor rust my ass......
we got the car for $500 knowing it needed a clutch
so sofar we have put
$500 for car
$200 for toe truck
$1200 for clutch
$75 for RAD.
$60 for JY part (right mirro. right outor tail , muffler)
$25 on paint sofar
$35 on tune up
that comes out to
$2095 on car that is not worth more then $300
last i checked, garages aren't allowed to just "fix things" without the owner's permission then when you come in say "oh, we had to do this, that, and the other too." if that's what happened, i'd report them. now if they called or you guys just said "go ahead, fix everything" when you dropped it off, then that's different.
Re: i CRASHED the 3gee :(
thay said the broke some some rod and bleamed it on us too :( it was only like $30 but still thay broke it :(
Re: i CRASHED the 3gee :(
were your mechanics named cheech and chong by any chance? did they look really really stoned?
Re: i CRASHED the 3gee :(
lol no thay where some place in oakhurst thaths why we can say anything now thay are to far away
