[Tobra]

I bought an integra GS-R new, had 4 miles on it when I first sat in it, have pic of gauge cluster around somewhere, start of the road trip series, SLC to Houston(Well, Conroe). Lot of good back roads in the Lone Star State, but man alive Honda puts shatty tires on there cars new. Have done the maint myself, though I paid for the water pump timing belt gig when it turned 95,000 miles. Radiator went at 120k, put on new hoses when I replaced that myself. Have gone through set of Axxis ultimate pads, which were a bit unkind to the rotor, would stop hard enough to pin you to your seatbelt and did not last long. Went back to stock pads because I did not feel like doing the brake pads that often, though I miss the extra stopping power. I have done nothing but wear items, tires(Yokohama AVS intermediates transformed the car) and oil, clutch is still pretty damn good, even with 140,000 miles.

Point is, I bought a Honda driving utensil, which is pretty easy to wrench on, especially compared to adjusting the valves on the 914, which is kind of a PITA, even with small hands.

I researched the car before I bought it, regarding reliability info on various cars, and the Japanese were tops when I was looking, imagine they still are. There are those who say the Asian car companies make soul less vehicles, but I have been pretty happy. I know someone who is in the market to ditch her not that old Stratus, or Sebring, whatever the damn thing is, because of some prone to failure parts, like my Ford Tempo with a plastic mount for the alternator pulley, just got old and brittle, it was junk, poorly designed. Ditched it shortly thereafter. That car I did not research.

Did have one warranty repair on the car. The little vent thing for the A/C broke from me hitting my sin on the dash under it too many times getting in and out of the car when I first got it.