If you mean "racing", God forbid no.

I eat rice, but I don't rice out anything

 

Well, it costs money to drive a car. Miles don't come free. If you put a lot of miles on it with highway use, though, especially at moderate temperatures, that is usually much easier on the oil than typical stop-and-go urban/suburban stuff, and you can let oil changes go somewhat further. My recommendations (and many technicians/mechanics agree) is 3 months/3000 miles for typical stop/go driving and 5 months/5000 miles for mostly extended-highway use. The oil computers on some new cars automatically monitor oil-level, condition, type of driving, and number of miles, calculating oil-change intervals for you, but I don't trust them....they are not foolproof, and have damaged or ruined some engines with too-long intervals, particularly at BMW.

 

I have trouble bending over backwards for Honda here. Most late model vehicles could do these easy highway miles as well. I've got something that will shock, can't post it from this Bb, so hold on!

 

Guys, this wasnt about it being a civic, or even a honda, it was simply about the mileage. Not a "praise Honda" post.

 

OK!

Yeah... who want is to roll out in town in a Honda??

Hey you wanted it.

If it makes you feel any better JLSC4 did the same thing several times in this thread... you only did it once that I saw.

 

That happens to be a pretty common theme with your threads, though... so you can see why people would assume this is you saying "praise Honda", again.

It'd really be no different than if 1SICKLEX posted a thread about a 2009 Acura TL that had an engine fire at 5k miles and then tried to tell us he didn't post it because it was an Acura, he just posted it because it was a new car that caught on fire.

 

Yeah true, But really, everyone here that knows me (and thats alot of people) know that I am a car enthusiast in general. I like honda cause I have one. When I had my ZX-2 and it was running high 12's, I loved it too, I like most cars, cars are my thing.

 

Ultimate fail!

2003 VW Passat GLX Variant w/ Tiptronic. The man drove the car back and forth across the country. Car has had 6 timing belts and came into the shop w/ a MIL for the 02 sensors. Just had new cats put on as well before the photo was taken.

Original ZF transmission (sourced from Porsche Boxter), original Audi 2.8L V6. And your statement is a little skewed at best. A cheap econobox is much less sophisticated, complicated and design intensive than anything costing upwards of $100,000. The Passat pictured was ~$32K when new (top trim GLX variant). Like I said before, pretty much any modern car, with proper maintinence, can service these types of miles, especially when they are being easily driven on the highway. The Japanese hold no special monopoly on this phenomenon, as the photo above painfully demonstrates.

And why the questioning of OCDetailers motives? He never once attempted to purport that only Honda is capable of achieving such high mileage figures (though some others tried and failed); he was just posting something he found interesting, and more power to him, I appreciated it!

 

I certainly agree with you that most modern cars could accomplish this kind of mileage.

I was just pointing out from my experience working in auto sales and seeing/driving many hundreds of cars that come in. I see distinct differences on how cars hold up. Car's like MB S-classes traded in with less than 100K and they're falling apart.

The Yaris I posted has had NO repair work done other than the alternator finally crapping out at 323,000 miles.

The Passat certainly does surprise though. I can't imagine how much that has cost to keep going (just the timing belt changes alone are a fortune).
Yaris has a chain that will usually go the life of the car.

So what did that guy's job require that coast to coast trips over and over was needed? That's crazy.

 

Yeah but IMO looking at past threads, the Honda/Acura badge humpers have all the IQ of a raccon turd (not you Josh, but most of them) turning the threads personal and into crap, getting closed every damn time. Thus I WILL NOT be posting Acura/Honda threads in the future. We don't have that damn problem with VW, Audi, Benz, BMW, Volvo etc etc, people might not like it, people might defend it, but it doesn't turn into a personal attack crap storm. Not to mention the logic used by them is ridiculous and borderline "Mongo" from "Something about Mary". For goodness sakes, we are arguing the TL is 5/GS/A6 etc competition? WTF? We don't have time to clean up the same threads/people over and over and over. Especially when the damn product isn't really worth talking or arguing about.

Josh is passionate about his Honda product which is cool, especially since it seems Toyota crapped on him with the Matrix. I honestly don't have issues with it. We have our resident other brand representatives (FKL VW, Speedflex Nissan, DaShocker BMW, etc etc) which helps keep us informed on other brands with news we might miss. Its a great thing. If they tried that on most other forums, the thread would be a flamefest "oh its not our brand, it sucks" blah blah blah

You do realize for instance, on Friday I started maybe 12 threads in car chat, most I posted pics from other sites/sources to inform/show members (new E-class coupe, A8 white/blue, TL looking like a gotdamn UFO with all those lights) and all the threads were fine EXCEPT the TL thread where two TL owners logged in soley to insult me and defend Acura where the thread was moved so it wouldn't turn into crap. The ONLY problem seems to be Acura threads.

IMO nothing wrong with prefering a brand or two as your favorite and still being an enthusiast. I think most of here are like that and certainly Josh is. Josh not only brings Honda knowledge but has really started contributing with the "detailing" and has kept us up to date on his life.

He is a true member here Josh DOES NOT just post in Honda/Acura threads to argue and debate.

 

what? i dont get it?

 

There's some of that problem in the BMW discussion too, but less so than with the Acura threads.

 

Guys lets get this thread back on topic to high mileage Hondas and off the predisposition of people posting.

 

Why would you say that? I worked as a courier and the hours are no different than any other job. When you drive for 8-9 hours a day the miles add up fast. I put 20,000 on my SC400 in the span of four months and I mostly did fairly local driving.

 

its not about the make. to me its more about how cheap can you get a car that can do these kinds of miles? certainly a cheap car will have cheap parts and a ton of miles will certainly weed out the weakest link. a $14k yaris is a pretty good example. after all these guys arent going to buy an expensive car to rack the miles on. question is, how far will a $9,990 versa go? is there anything cheaper?