well i crashed the 3gee today :( no damage to the 3gee but some scatchs on the bumper but the garage door got a huge dent :(:rant::rant::rant::violin:
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well i crashed the 3gee today :( no damage to the 3gee but some scatchs on the bumper but the garage door got a huge dent :(:rant::rant::rant::violin:
yeah i done the same thing with our old van about 8 years ago :thumbdn:
How the hell did you crash into the garage?Quote:
Originally Posted by civic accord honda
hmm...yet another fake 3g catastrophe story. but sucks about the door. but at least it's your first time and hopefully it doesn't happen again.
yeah i almost hit it b-4 it is hard to drive the car u gotta give it alot of gas or it stall's out and u cant ease off the clutch it just pushs your foot off it alot of force
If you pulse the gas it wont take off fast. Plus learn how to drive a stick better that way it wont stall. I do not stall mine going up the driveway nor do i hit the garage door.
i can drive a 5spee di have been driveing one for 4 years :rant::rant::rant:..... and it is the stage 2 clutch thay are stiff as hell and it wont run under 1000RPM anymore just started doing this last week :wtf:...... even my step dad has a hard time driving this car and he has been driveing a stick for over 20 years
Then find the point where the clutch engages and don't let out to much clutch. And it also sounds like you have a vacuum leak.Quote:
Originally Posted by civic accord honda
i normely do but i was just trying to pull the car up as cole to the garage door as posabil cuz my sander card would not rech the back panel and a cat lives in the garage so i cant have it openQuote:
Originally Posted by russiankid
Still practice getting the feel for the clutch and creeping up on the driveway.Quote:
Originally Posted by civic accord honda
i do when the car has a full tank but right now it is on E and last to last a week and i get 18-20 MPGQuote:
Originally Posted by russiankid
Yea i am getting 20mpg but that is because i warm up my car and i have short trips to school(approx. 4 miles one way).Quote:
Originally Posted by civic accord honda
yeah we just take alot of short trips all day but when we take a long trip the car gets good MPG
you need one of these to help you with your driving, http://www.gemmy.com/products/largeImage/30655_copy.jpg
how did you hit a garage door? there are plenty of cars with much harder to operate clutches then the accord,and thier owners don't go through doors. why do you have a stage two clutch anyway? you haven't modified the motor. that seems like a lot of wasted time and money to put in. a stock motor isn't approiate for that kind of clutch.
cuz the shop said it was the only one thay got working thay tryed 3 diff stock ones and thay could not get the car to go in reversve :wtf: so thay put a Stage 2 one in thay said it was the only one thay got working and i was planing on fixing up the engine but i say fuck it now the car is hopeless and going to a JY in a few months so i can start looking for a hatch.....anyway idk how i hit the door i guse i was not paying alot of atenon and i had the radio all the way up ....anyway its no big deal and my perents thout it was funny as hell and kids next door allready crashed there bike into the garage door and dented it and we rent so who cares lol
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I have the OEM Exedy clutch in mine and i have no problems with reverse. Sometimes it wont go into reverse, but if you put it into 1st then reverse it's fine. I cannot see how a clutch will prevent the tranny to go into reverse...
WHAT IS WRONG WITH WHOEVER PUT THAT CLUTCH IN? if it's a stock transmission and a stock motor and the clutch won't work,something is wrong with the mechanic putting it in. the clutch has nothing to do with reverse, if it's in and adjusted right it should work. I think your mechanic was eithier :beer:or :bong:Quote:
Originally Posted by civic accord honda
I agree. I have no problems with mine.Quote:
Originally Posted by lostforawhile
yea i think its you or your car one the clutch wont cause that kind of problem
put the cat in the house. problem solved. or, buy an extension cord. problem solved x2.Quote:
Originally Posted by civic accord honda
PIX!! i wanna see pix of the garage door :welcome:
hang the cat by it's tail at a point right where you want to stop,when the cat yowls,hit the brakes
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by lostforawhile
he was too busy" eating pringles "to pay attention to what he was doing LOL
Sure he wasn't pounding the can? :bowrofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by lostforawhile
:lol: lmao :lol: :lol: :Owned:Quote:
Originally Posted by lostforawhile
shit maing, my "crash" in the 2gee was worse than that... at least the bumper popped up lol...
thats why theQuote:
Originally Posted by ddude2uc
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:wtf: :inout:
yeah the mechanic was a dumb ass he carged me $200 xtra to replace the transmisson sell and now it leeks all over the fucking place and he craged $2200 for the clutch to be replaced
transmission seal were is that at (stupid question)
shoulda just got another car :thumbdn:
wait, hold on. you just paid $2200 to get a clutch replaced? you son, are just not smart. you could've bought a new one that was running properly with new clutch for that price.
for 2200 u coulda found an se-i.... :slap:
opps lol i did meen $1200 not $2200Quote:
Originally Posted by snoopyloopy
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
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Originally Posted by civic accord honda
:welcome: i spent like 3k on mine.....i want a 1200 clutch tho..
honestly, you dont even know how common an occurance this is to back into the garage door. at the door shop i used to work at this made for a regular daily service call. lol.
Replacing the clutch is so easy. All you really need is a torque wrench, a few sockets, jack stands and a jack and a 2nd hand. You can rebuild an engine for $1200 or even less.
4 years you say? and yet you are only 17? Do they permit a license for 13yearolds where you are from?Quote:
Originally Posted by civic accord honda
I have been driving since I was like 7 Just not on the street!.
my dad made me learn stick when I was 13, in the 2gee actually, back when it was his DD, so ive got 6 years of stick driving
i lerned how to Drive when i was 12 in a automatic subaru GL the next year i got my own car a 1982 Honda Accord 5speed hatch all my cars after that have been a stick shift
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.
i'm 34 and have been driving a stick since I was 15,I've driven cross country several times and probably close to a million miles. I hate slushboxes,would rather have a 5 speed anyday
5speed FTW 4speed FTSW Automatic FTL
:gun:automatic :rocket:
oh yeah i still want pix of the garage :D
Were you taught how to properly drive a 5-speed?Quote:
Originally Posted by civic accord honda
Anyways i prefer a 5-speed. At first when my dad taught me, i didn't enjoy it because my dad has a bad temper at times, so any mistake he begins to yell. I ended up liking it and here i am driving a 5-speed as my DD :)
yea CAH you ought to try feathering the clutch in a pair of size 12,red forman foot up your ass style,steel toe work boots. LOL
You shouldn't Feel bad:Quote:
Originally Posted by civic accord honda
[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.
me too, i learnt in our old van at this abandoned place by a bmx track, and the car park across the road :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MECM
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by forrest89sei
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by MessyHonda
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by civic accord honda
thay said the broke some some rod and bleamed it on us too :( it was only like $30 but still thay broke it :(
were your mechanics named cheech and chong by any chance? did they look really really stoned?
lol no thay where some place in oakhurst thaths why we can say anything now thay are to far away
