Getting to know your RC F - what have you learned?
03-25-16, 05:02 AM
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Getting to know your RC F - what have you learned?
I saw one of these threads in a different forum and I figured since we barely have any new discussions here on CL I will give it a shot. I make no excuses if this same exact topic has already been covered...
List the good, the bad and the ugly or just the stuff you discovered about your car, car buying process, etc.
Here are a few of mine:
List the good, the bad and the ugly or just the stuff you discovered about your car, car buying process, etc.
Here are a few of mine:
- The weight of the car doesn't bother me at all. In aggressive daily driving this thing handles like a champ.
- The audio sounded awful until I turned off surround sound and tweaked all the setting for each source independently.
- Nobody knows how performance oriented this car is, just that it looks cool. Someone asked if it had a 4 cylinder or a 6. I told them it was a plug in electric.
- I gave up cleaning the wheels because they get dirty from brake dust after a five minute drive
- If you double tap the track pad it acts just like a hard click
03-25-16, 05:28 AM
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I saw one of these threads in a different forum and I figured since we barely have any new discussions here on CL I will give it a shot. I make no excuses if this same exact topic has already been covered...
List the good, the bad and the ugly or just the stuff you discovered about your car, car buying process, etc.
Here are a few of mine:
List the good, the bad and the ugly or just the stuff you discovered about your car, car buying process, etc.
Here are a few of mine:
- The weight of the car doesn't bother me at all. In aggressive daily driving this thing handles like a champ.
- The audio sounded awful until I turned off surround sound and tweaked all the setting for each source independently.
- Nobody knows how performance oriented this car is, just that it looks cool. Someone asked if it had a 4 cylinder or a 6. I told them it was a plug in electric.
- I gave up cleaning the wheels because they get dirty from brake dust after a five minute drive
- If you double tap the track pad it acts just like a hard click
03-25-16, 08:18 AM
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I saw one of these threads in a different forum and I figured since we barely have any new discussions here on CL I will give it a shot. I make no excuses if this same exact topic has already been covered...
List the good, the bad and the ugly or just the stuff you discovered about your car, car buying process, etc.
Here are a few of mine:
List the good, the bad and the ugly or just the stuff you discovered about your car, car buying process, etc.
Here are a few of mine:
- The weight of the car doesn't bother me at all. In aggressive daily driving this thing handles like a champ.
- The audio sounded awful until I turned off surround sound and tweaked all the setting for each source independently.
- Nobody knows how performance oriented this car is, just that it looks cool. Someone asked if it had a 4 cylinder or a 6. I told them it was a plug in electric.
- I gave up cleaning the wheels because they get dirty from brake dust after a five minute drive
- If you double tap the track pad it acts just like a hard click
Please share your audio settings
03-25-16, 02:00 PM
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I saw one of these threads in a different forum and I figured since we barely have any new discussions here on CL I will give it a shot. I make no excuses if this same exact topic has already been covered...
List the good, the bad and the ugly or just the stuff you discovered about your car, car buying process, etc.
Here are a few of mine:
List the good, the bad and the ugly or just the stuff you discovered about your car, car buying process, etc.
Here are a few of mine:
- The weight of the car doesn't bother me at all. In aggressive daily driving this thing handles like a champ.
- The audio sounded awful until I turned off surround sound and tweaked all the setting for each source independently.
- Nobody knows how performance oriented this car is, just that it looks cool. Someone asked if it had a 4 cylinder or a 6. I told them it was a plug in electric.
- I gave up cleaning the wheels because they get dirty from brake dust after a five minute drive
- If you double tap the track pad it acts just like a hard click
I have to agree with your whole list.
Especially #2 and #3
in reference to #3:
I have been told that it is not a Lexus (even though there are 500 Lexus badges all over the car)
I have had stunned Mustang and Camaro drivers ask WTH it is after I romped on them, both guessing it was a v6 car.
I had a guy in a GT-R complement me on it saying it was "sick" looking.
a lot of the kids in my daughters school ask her about it when I drop her off, even after 6 months of owning it, definitely stands out in the sea of accords, mini-vans, and SUVs in the drop off lane every morning.
03-25-16, 07:30 PM
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Most of the time the best way to tune a specific system and source (media, XM, etc.) is actually to do it at really high volume using a song or a genre of music that you plan on listening to a lot. Here is a brief tutorial. I used to use the same technique in my car audio days, but I'm sure there are other ways to do it.
1. Reset everything to the middle.
2. Turn up the volume very loud. In most cases as loud as you can stand without feeling like your car speakers are about to blow. It's a lot easier to hear distortion and thus tune your system.
3. Adjust treble all the way down and start to increase it a bit at a time until it's all the way up. Then go back down and at that point you should start to find a place where the sound seems most pleasing to you. Go up and down a few times until you find just the right setting.
4. Remember the treble setting and take it back to the middle. Repeat for MID and Bass in that order.
5. Once you have the settings dialed in for each of the three frequencies set them all to the settings you found most pleasing when tuning each one individually.
6. Lower the volume to your every day listening level and listen to a few songs to make sure things sound good.
7. Usually minor adjustments are needed to the Treble once the Mids are dialed in and vice versa. It should be one or two clicks up or down at most.
8. Enjoy
This is not the best factory system I've every heard but it's pretty decent once you got it dialed in. I found that my setting for XM and my iPod had to be very different. Sort of unusual, but in this case I feel I now have a decent sounds coming out to the speakers even at high volumes. Plus on XM I can now listen to talk radio at low volumes without it sounds like crap.
Hope this helps!
03-25-16, 08:52 PM
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I'll take a pic and post my settings in tomorrow. Basically you should be able to configure settings for each source independently by going to sound settings after selecting the source. You can turn off surround and ASL under the DSP menu. I recommend turning off both. I think it's silly to have surround sound enabled in a car since all the media is usually 2 channels. The surround sound processing makes the system sound like garbage IMO.
Most of the time the best way to tune a specific system and source (media, XM, etc.) is actually to do it at really high volume using a song or a genre of music that you plan on listening to a lot. Here is a brief tutorial. I used to use the same technique in my car audio days, but I'm sure there are other ways to do it.
1. Reset everything to the middle.
2. Turn up the volume very loud. In most cases as loud as you can stand without feeling like your car speakers are about to blow. It's a lot easier to hear distortion and thus tune your system.
3. Adjust treble all the way down and start to increase it a bit at a time until it's all the way up. Then go back down and at that point you should start to find a place where the sound seems most pleasing to you. Go up and down a few times until you find just the right setting.
4. Remember the treble setting and take it back to the middle. Repeat for MID and Bass in that order.
5. Once you have the settings dialed in for each of the three frequencies set them all to the settings you found most pleasing when tuning each one individually.
6. Lower the volume to your every day listening level and listen to a few songs to make sure things sound good.
7. Usually minor adjustments are needed to the Treble once the Mids are dialed in and vice versa. It should be one or two clicks up or down at most.
8. Enjoy
This is not the best factory system I've every heard but it's pretty decent once you got it dialed in. I found that my setting for XM and my iPod had to be very different. Sort of unusual, but in this case I feel I now have a decent sounds coming out to the speakers even at high volumes. Plus on XM I can now listen to talk radio at low volumes without it sounds like crap.
Hope this helps!
Most of the time the best way to tune a specific system and source (media, XM, etc.) is actually to do it at really high volume using a song or a genre of music that you plan on listening to a lot. Here is a brief tutorial. I used to use the same technique in my car audio days, but I'm sure there are other ways to do it.
1. Reset everything to the middle.
2. Turn up the volume very loud. In most cases as loud as you can stand without feeling like your car speakers are about to blow. It's a lot easier to hear distortion and thus tune your system.
3. Adjust treble all the way down and start to increase it a bit at a time until it's all the way up. Then go back down and at that point you should start to find a place where the sound seems most pleasing to you. Go up and down a few times until you find just the right setting.
4. Remember the treble setting and take it back to the middle. Repeat for MID and Bass in that order.
5. Once you have the settings dialed in for each of the three frequencies set them all to the settings you found most pleasing when tuning each one individually.
6. Lower the volume to your every day listening level and listen to a few songs to make sure things sound good.
7. Usually minor adjustments are needed to the Treble once the Mids are dialed in and vice versa. It should be one or two clicks up or down at most.
8. Enjoy
This is not the best factory system I've every heard but it's pretty decent once you got it dialed in. I found that my setting for XM and my iPod had to be very different. Sort of unusual, but in this case I feel I now have a decent sounds coming out to the speakers even at high volumes. Plus on XM I can now listen to talk radio at low volumes without it sounds like crap.
Hope this helps!
Fastest way to downshift from high gear manual mode, shift to D, WOT, and shift back to manual and downshift a gear, sometimes it will let you downshift, and sometimes it won't!
03-25-16, 09:13 PM
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I have to agree with your whole list.
Especially #2 and #3
in reference to #3:
I have been told that it is not a Lexus (even though there are 500 Lexus badges all over the car)
I have had stunned Mustang and Camaro drivers ask WTH it is after I romped on them, both guessing it was a v6 car.
I had a guy in a GT-R complement me on it saying it was "sick" looking.
a lot of the kids in my daughters school ask her about it when I drop her off, even after 6 months of owning it, definitely stands out in the sea of accords, mini-vans, and SUVs in the drop off lane every morning.
Especially #2 and #3
in reference to #3:
I have been told that it is not a Lexus (even though there are 500 Lexus badges all over the car)
I have had stunned Mustang and Camaro drivers ask WTH it is after I romped on them, both guessing it was a v6 car.
I had a guy in a GT-R complement me on it saying it was "sick" looking.
a lot of the kids in my daughters school ask her about it when I drop her off, even after 6 months of owning it, definitely stands out in the sea of accords, mini-vans, and SUVs in the drop off lane every morning.
Some teen at the chikfila drivethru asked "Is it an automatic?"
Last edited by equalme; 03-25-16 at 09:27 PM.
03-26-16, 07:36 AM
#11
I'll take a pic and post my settings in tomorrow. Basically you should be able to configure settings for each source independently by going to sound settings after selecting the source. You can turn off surround and ASL under the DSP menu. I recommend turning off both. I think it's silly to have surround sound enabled in a car since all the media is usually 2 channels. The surround sound processing makes the system sound like garbage IMO.
Most of the time the best way to tune a specific system and source (media, XM, etc.) is actually to do it at really high volume using a song or a genre of music that you plan on listening to a lot. Here is a brief tutorial. I used to use the same technique in my car audio days, but I'm sure there are other ways to do it.
1. Reset everything to the middle.
2. Turn up the volume very loud. In most cases as loud as you can stand without feeling like your car speakers are about to blow. It's a lot easier to hear distortion and thus tune your system.
3. Adjust treble all the way down and start to increase it a bit at a time until it's all the way up. Then go back down and at that point you should start to find a place where the sound seems most pleasing to you. Go up and down a few times until you find just the right setting.
4. Remember the treble setting and take it back to the middle. Repeat for MID and Bass in that order.
5. Once you have the settings dialed in for each of the three frequencies set them all to the settings you found most pleasing when tuning each one individually.
6. Lower the volume to your every day listening level and listen to a few songs to make sure things sound good.
7. Usually minor adjustments are needed to the Treble once the Mids are dialed in and vice versa. It should be one or two clicks up or down at most.
8. Enjoy
This is not the best factory system I've every heard but it's pretty decent once you got it dialed in. I found that my setting for XM and my iPod had to be very different. Sort of unusual, but in this case I feel I now have a decent sounds coming out to the speakers even at high volumes. Plus on XM I can now listen to talk radio at low volumes without it sounds like crap.
Hope this helps!
Most of the time the best way to tune a specific system and source (media, XM, etc.) is actually to do it at really high volume using a song or a genre of music that you plan on listening to a lot. Here is a brief tutorial. I used to use the same technique in my car audio days, but I'm sure there are other ways to do it.
1. Reset everything to the middle.
2. Turn up the volume very loud. In most cases as loud as you can stand without feeling like your car speakers are about to blow. It's a lot easier to hear distortion and thus tune your system.
3. Adjust treble all the way down and start to increase it a bit at a time until it's all the way up. Then go back down and at that point you should start to find a place where the sound seems most pleasing to you. Go up and down a few times until you find just the right setting.
4. Remember the treble setting and take it back to the middle. Repeat for MID and Bass in that order.
5. Once you have the settings dialed in for each of the three frequencies set them all to the settings you found most pleasing when tuning each one individually.
6. Lower the volume to your every day listening level and listen to a few songs to make sure things sound good.
7. Usually minor adjustments are needed to the Treble once the Mids are dialed in and vice versa. It should be one or two clicks up or down at most.
8. Enjoy
This is not the best factory system I've every heard but it's pretty decent once you got it dialed in. I found that my setting for XM and my iPod had to be very different. Sort of unusual, but in this case I feel I now have a decent sounds coming out to the speakers even at high volumes. Plus on XM I can now listen to talk radio at low volumes without it sounds like crap.
Hope this helps!
03-30-16, 07:44 AM
#12
Why springs vs coils? You spared no expense on other parts yet this seems like a shortcut. After my coil install the car transformed. I wouldn't recommend any other way. Very happy at 6k plus miles on my Penske setup with RR Racing USRS ( bushing upgrade )
04-03-16, 11:33 PM
#14
Would you care to explain why? I'm about to make this transition.
-Josh
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04-04-16, 11:15 AM
#15
Its strange...I've heard from people that they love the RC-F over their old IS-F...best car ever.
Then I hear from folks who just wanted a newer IS-F and say it feels the same, just more updated.
Then I hear from people who say they miss their IS-F as it felt lighter and more "raw"....
Then I hear from folks who just wanted a newer IS-F and say it feels the same, just more updated.
Then I hear from people who say they miss their IS-F as it felt lighter and more "raw"....