Explain your 3G love

[carotman]

Hi mike!

Well, I can summarize this my saying I just love the car, the style it has and the fact that it doesn't look like any other car out there with it's front flip lights.

I got this car in 1995... damn 11 years.

[Hash_man_Se_i]

Well... My dad bought my old se-i in about '93... The car was mint and had barely been driven. He drove it for quite some time, and that really started his love for Honda's... He now has an 05 6spd TSX. The car was great to our family, one day while picking up a pizza my dad met our body man/mechanic... He noticed the car and started talking, there started that relationship.

Eventually the car became my moms for a short time, and then my sisters for a couple years... In the fall of 2003 my sister went away for school and my parents made her leave the car hahaha.

I then started driving the car whenever I could, I had been looking forward to this since my dad got the car, I always loved the look and feel of the car. Over the summer and winter of 03/04 I saved almost every penny I made, and dropped almost $4000 on stereo goodness. I also lowered the car, and put on an exhaust. I loved it. Then Jan 05.. came.

I was having a really bad day, got pretty much kicked out of my moms house, and had to move into my dads, it was like -40C outside, and the roads were icy as hell. On my last trip moving to my dads, I lost control of the car while changing lanes over a large amount of snow and ice. I knew the car was wrecked, and yes, I CRIED lol.

Finally a few months later, after looking at lots of other cars, I got a cheque from insurance from a previous accident (old lady pulled out in front of me) only minor-ish damage but my back and neck have been fucked since. I looked at lots of other cars but none felt the same as the 3g, so one day I found a fairly clean se-i and got it for a steal of a deal. ($2000 CDN) And the cycle starts again.

[A20A1]

Got my car in 1998...
Still the best thing on the road.

[3G Jester]

Well....first i take a warm wash cloth and i roll it up inside the gas tank...or the tail pipe depending on hom im feeling......then i fill it with vasaline and take my time.....some times i go slow...sometimes fast and hard.....

thats how i love my 3g.

[Toneloc5145]

My story is long. The car was originally purchased in Germany in September of 89. My mom needed a 4-door car seing as how she was pregnant with twins(me and my brother) and she had already had another child. She was driving a '79 RX-7 at that time. My mom wanted the VW Jetta at the time, but my dad convinced her that it wasnt the car for her. They finally agreed on the 3g, but my mom wanted it to be burgandy. Needless to say, when my dad came home with a light blue car, my mom was pissed. I was born a few days after they bought it, so i feel like the car was bought basically for me(and my brother).

Anyways, the car was driven in Germany for around a year and a half until my parents(both were in the army) found out they were to be stationed in Virginia. We flew home, but the car had to be shipped here. Honda paid for the shipping(how thoughful), but it took a long time to get here. I remember my mom saying that she had to drive her brothers piece of crap Cutlas until the car arrived and then one day she arrived on post with the 3g and everbody was gawking.

My mom drove the car for 5 years after that, even after we had bought a new minivan(mercury villager) in '95, until the summer of '96, when the car was almost stolen(the dude was in the car trying to hotwire it and one of my moms co-workers saw him and told my mom). From then on my mom just drove the van and the car sat in the garage, until my mom got tired of scraping windows and moved it to the street.

Fast-foward to 2004. My older brother got his license. Not even a month after he got it, he crashed the car. The insurance company wanted to total it, but my dad convinced them not to (the adjuster were amazed by how clean the interior was). I was mad because i was supposed to get the car like my mom had always promised me, but i was afraid the car would never look like it did. Needless to say when we got the car back, it looked better. The body shop replaced the Kaminari front and back kit that was on their but had been damaged in the accident with the Xenon kit, since it was cheaper.

My brother drove it for a year until he went to college. I got my license this past December and have been very grateful to be able to drive this car. I just recently gave it a tune-up(cap,rotor,wires,plugs,filters,pvc valve,etc.) and i take good care of it(my mom is glad i have the car because in the year that my brother drove the car, he washed it ONCE, and he did nothing more than that).

[3G Jester]

toneloc..where are you in va? im stationed at langley

[gfrg88]

My story is long. The car was originally purchased in Germany in September of 89. My mom needed a 4-door car seing as how she was pregnant with twins(me and my brother) and she had already had another child. She was driving a '79 RX-7 at that time. My mom wanted the VW Jetta at the time, but my dad convinced her that it wasnt the car for her. They finally agreed on the 3g, but my mom wanted it to be burgandy. Needless to say, when my dad came home with a light blue car, my mom was pissed. I was born a few days after they bought it, so i feel like the car was bought basically for me(and my brother).
Anyways, the car was driven in Germany for around a year and a half until my parents(both were in the army) found out they were to be stationed in Virginia. We flew home, but the car had to be shipped here. Honda paid for the shipping(how thoughful), but it took a long time to get here. I remember my mom saying that she had to drive her brothers piece of crap Cutlas until the car arrived and then one day she arrived on post with the 3g and everbody was gawking.
My mom drove the car for 5 years after that, even after we had bought a new minivan(mercury villager) in '95, until the summer of '96, when the car was almost stolen(the dude was in the car trying to hotwire it and one of my moms co-workers saw him and told my mom). From then on my mom just drove the van and the car sat in the garage, until my mom got tired of scraping windows and moved it to the street.
Fast-foward to 2004. My older brother got his license. Not even a month after he got it, he crashed the car. The insurance company wanted to total it, but my dad convinced them not to (the adjuster were amazed by how clean the interior was). I was mad because i was supposed to get the car like my mom had always promised me, but i was afraid the car would never look like it did. Needless to say when we got the car back, it looked better. The body shop replaced the Kaminari front and back kit that was on their but had been damaged in the accident with the Xenon kit, since it was cheaper.
My brother drove it for a year until he went to college. I got my license this past December and have been very grateful to be able to drive this car. I just recently gave it a tune-up(cap,rotor,wires,plugs,filters,pvc valve,etc.) and i take good care of it(my mom is glad i have the car because in the year that my brother drove the car, he washed it ONCE, and he did nothing more than that).

wait, so your cars EDM?? is rhd or what?? what engine does it have?? you did say it was shipped from Germany right??

[86AccordLxi]

Only the British drive on the other side of the road.

Alex

[A20A1]

Aussies do to.

[86AccordLxi]

I meant out of European countries. Lots of countries drive on the other side of the road.

Alex

[1ajs]

grew up with the 3gee..... loads of memories with the car so many happy memories of growing up.............

found memory of the summer of 93 when she was towed home bye the niebor after it got submerged in a underpass that flooded due to the rain.... we had been having that day..... the sky was green literaly green. we get it home and my mother takes all her stuff that got socked out and lays them out on a towle she used to have a box a wooden box in the rear window that had tero cards in it that was given to here when she was in guatamala.. she had them all laid out on the floor drying any how mydad got it in the back and opend the driver door window a crack and took the garden hose and filled the car with tap water and proceeded the next day to take out the interior of the car had everything out had the intire center cound siting on the kitchen table for a week ass my dad had that all apar. he drained the oild out of the motor found no water so then he figured there was no water in the trany big mistake... as the trany blew up that very winter... took the car seats cuple weeks to dry ect he did some rust treetment on the floor to stop and future rust from poping up...... trying to convince him to let me now take the front seats out and the rug and tuch up on his previous job just in case i love this car so much that i cried when it got reard ended last summer below the right hand side tail light. you could fill a book with all the stories behind this car..

if i dig threw the dark room might be able to find some negitives of the car jalf submerged in a mountan streem and parits sitting on the roof of it ect witch i might just do

[Toneloc5145]

wait, so your cars EDM?? is rhd or what?? what engine does it have?? you did say it was shipped from Germany right??

My car is USDM but it was built in Japan. It has an A20A1. We lived in Germany when we bought the car so we had it shipped from Japan to Germany. My dad had to drive to a shipping dock with his friend(because my mom was pregnant) to pick up the car. My dad told me a funny story about this too.

When they went to pick it up (My dad and his friend), they took my dad's 1988 Corolla. My dad drove the 3g back home and his friend drove my dad's Corolla. They had to drive on the Autobahn to get back to where we lived, so my dad told his friend to keep up(Dad is in 3g, Friend in Corolla). My dad said when they got on the autobahn, he absolutely smoked the Corolla and it couldnt even keep up. I asked my dad, "well aren't you supposed to follow the break-in routine." He just said" Well hell, it still runs fine. I guess i did something right." And it still runs good to this day.

[Toneloc5145]

toneloc..where are you in va? im stationed at langley

Im in Fauquier County. I've never heard of Langley. My mom(when she was in the army) was station on Belvoir and before that Vint Hill(before they shut down). Good to see another military person on here.

[halxi]

ive been told the absolute worst way to break a motor in is driving for an extended period of time at a set rpm.

i always take it through the paces, idle til it warms up, then always change rpms, gradually go up to shifting point/redline in each gear, then take it back down, then back up. Change oil, proceed.

Thats on dirtbike motors though, cars would be a little different, but not much.

When i say gradually, i mean gradually. Gentle shifting, and drive it like a grandma that forgot to shift.

[Toneloc5145]

Well i dont think he drove at that speed for a very long time considering some parts of the Autobahn have speed limits. But i dont think he followed the break-in instructions on the Corolla either and that car had 200,000+ miles on it when we sold it. It ran real good too.

[frantik]

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[BITESIZE]

89 accord lxi hatch....enough said

[EX-ileAccord]

I love how all the gas and brake lines are INSIDE the car. That always impresses everybody lol
and those flip up head lights got me so much ass in my days of singleness haha