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Lol. Btw can anyone else see my pictures from yesterday's post? Had used a 3rd party hosting service but I can't see the pics anymore on my end :s

How did the garage get in the way of the car? Lol. Seems like an unfortunate but funny story behind that haha Got the message. @Laird_Scoobyis the man for lpg systems! Thinking back to when I first reported 20mpg. Its really not that unreasonable for the sort of short frequent trips I take. Man I could walk to some places lol. Overall I do believe doing the regular maintenance pays off. ATF being the most important imo. Makes the car nicer to drive too so you can just drive it relaxed. So many times people say I take my time i.e driving slow. But most times there is no need to speed up to end up at a red light 200m down the road!

Haha you read my mind. I wouldn't fit an LPG system to the coupe though. Too expensive initial cost. I do have LPG LS400 on my ebay watch list though!

Haha yeah that may be it. Next time im going on a round trip ill send the family by coach and meet them there

The coupe is soo long. When i reverse park at work people have to walk around my car lol as it takes up so much of he footpath. I dare say the boot can fit more than my 7th gen accord could. That boot was similar size but it had a large cage to protect the speakers or something which prevented suitcases from sitting upright. On this particular round trip. I had a full tank. 3 adults (including myself), toddler in his csr seat. In the boot I had the Push chair (compact but long). 1 large suitcase weighing approx 20kg. 1 medium suitcase weighing at least 15kg and another medium one squeezed in not filled up so about 10kg. Then a small suitcase weighing about 8kg behind driver seat on the rear passenger footwell. Windows slightly open. Sometimes sunroof tilted if not too noisy. I have lowered the front of my car but the back too dropped down with all that weight. Looked awesome haha.

Just checked online. According to this http://www.thecalculatorsite.com/conversions/substances/petrol.php 20litres of petrol would be approximately 15kg. I wrongly inferred that 1 litre equals 1kg. I think its 1 litre of water thats 1kg?

Is that Sikaflex something like nomorenails? May have some of that laying around (but out of reach of the little one before someone says lol). Thanks for the tip!

Yeah I just did it to check results of all my efforts to take care of the car and because I was doing loads of motorway miles. Hate having to top up at services along motorways. Rip offs. Id guess it would be 20kg? Unfortunately I have to always have a push chair and baby stuff in my boot so it gets alot of use. Thankfuly its a massive boot! Cant imagine how I woul have fit half thr stuff I have done sometimes if I had a...prelude!

Haha yes red indicators. It wasnt disclosed online where I got them from. I did however clearly state it on my for sale ad so I did my part. To be fair they were still very bright easily visible in day time too so hopefully new owner should be fine with them. My boot was devoid of most badges when I got it. It had a hideous red TypeS badge too which I promptly got rid off. Currently the 3.0i has fallen off from over enthusiastic cleaning so all thats on there is the v6. Tried to stick the 3.0i back on but need to get better doublesided tape and cut it around the numbers otherwise will look bad. Have also ordered a VTEC badge in silver. Not the Spiderman font though. Something more stock looking. Hopefully the item that arrives is like the picture of the ebay ad.

Haha yes I was silently celebrating when I saw the 350mile clock in. I think the 20mpg I was getting earlier was more of town driving and of course car was new to me so was still driving like a lunatic.

Have only ever left battery disconnected over night. I didn't notice anything come from it. I haven't changed the plugs but the guy I bought it from had done them very recently also the inline filter. I saw the original receipt. I remember cross checking the part number on invoice and it checked out to the correct one. I need to come see you @hughezee!

The best mpg I've got so far is 350 miles off a full tank (56 litres). Exactly 10% (35 miles of town driving) and 90% motorway. This is after several ATF changes and a recent oil change to the recommended S&A mineral oil. Also new air filter. Poor compared to others. Of course could be due to my heavy foot although I did conciously try go easy. Couldnt resist temptation to floor it a few times though tbh.

I'll try get that pic taken asap. I expect they are "universal dip" since they aren't made in USA, probably Taiwan (can't check but from what I recall) and are available for sale on Asian ebay websites (even Australia I think!) many of which are RHD countries. Like I mentioned I did have to play with the wheels to adjust to what felt acceptable to me (non-scientific). Now I wish I took a pic when doing it lol Worst comes to worst I can swap out with my stock headlamps before the re-test haha. Btw did you notice anything about the rear chrome altezza tail lights?

Im not in the know but on my coupe I find the light turns on way earlier. Almost just below a quarter tank. I thought this was weird.

I don't know if they will pass the MOT or not but it does have the horizontal and vertical adjusting wheels. Note they dont have the motors so the switch inside the car won't work ofcourse. I spent some time aligning the beam infront of a wall at some distance and got it to an acceptable level by my eyes. Ofcourse this is without any specialist equipment. Just what looked closest to the stock ones. I've never had anyone flash at me so don't think it kicks up to oncoming traffic. If it's a major concern I beleive they make these stickers for RHD cars on LHD roads. Surely one exists for vice versa? I'll try post a pic of the beam at night Oh and ofcourse, there are many tutorials on youtube on how to convert our chrome stock headlights to blacked out look. It does involve baking the headlights in the oven, using some paint on the reflectors, etc. I would only attempt it on a spare pair (someone on the facebook group was selling a pair of stock headlights in good nick!).

Found em! http://www.ebay.com/itm/201673323302 Well not so much a 'Z' but more like an 'L'. See if you can find them by a seller who is opted into GSP on the ebay dot com website.

Thanks mate! Check these headlights out, comes with the grill too! http://www.ebay.com/itm/122086952890 In my experience it took about 5 weeks to arrive due to the Global Shipping Programme (parcel zig zagged across USA before finally being shipped to the UK) but had the piece of mind that all duties vat etc were paid upfront. That seller has other designs and combo packs too. There was another design I'm trying to find again, very similar to mine and the above, but had a LED strip at the bottom almost as a 'Z' design. You'll see what I'm talking about when I find it. I think I didnt go for it in the end because of price (relative to value of our cars in the market nothing seems worth it haha) and I dont think that seller was opted in to GSP! Oh and ofcourse the LED strip needed some wiring done to get it to work. It did look very cool though, modern but stock looking.

Sorry for the double post but might as well share this story whilst I'm online. Some weeks ago I had gone to a 5-a-side football pitch. This place gets really busy and carpark always full. So as driving round looking for parking I slooowly drove towards and past a group of guys who had just finished playing. None of them were looking at me or the car directly whilst approaching apart from occasional glances over the shoulders. I could however hear them talking amongst themselves...arguing, "its a skyline", "r32" "nah its an r33" etc, the moment I drove past I look in my mirror and see the whole gang turning to see what car it really was! haha, it's funny how none of them complimented me/the car directly or gave me a thumbs up but were slyly eyeing my coupe. When I turned to reverse park ofcourse they all turned around quickly so as to not get caught looking! When I oogle at other peoples cars I always give the owner a thumbs up or flash my lights, - don't hate appreciate! I would de-badge but I actually like it being spelt out for people that this a 3 litre honda, V6! VTEC! haha

Yes, it is very weird. It's just the front driver side that keeps loosening. I probably should have left the old one in there but was trying to do the 'right thing' in changing them in pairs (left one was snapped), could be poor quality link too but I thought FEBI was a good brand. Anyway, if it loosens up again I'll get both the front ones taken off and re-installed. Once more after that then I'll just have to change it again with another one.

Hi guys, It’s been a while. As promised. Finally sat down to try and upload some pics. Now my phone camera isn’t the best and when I tried to plug in to the computer it wouldn’t detect the photos so had to email them to myself. Also to compensate for my camera quality I do use some editing apps to play around with the lighting etc, it looks nice on my phone itself but may not come across as good on different screens. First up: A few of you on the facebook forum may have seen this. I tried out the chrome altezza lights. Quite liked them. Especially at night and on certain angles. In the end, I felt it would suit a darker car more. Sold to a HPUK facebook member so you may see it again! I then reverted to stock. But was still itching to make it different. So a friend of mine quickly wrapped the tail lights using matt black film. It was more of as a let’s see how it will look so was not done perfectly. The film itself was cheap eBay one which didn’t have protection on both sides so on application got scratched up. If you ever wrap anything, ensure the film you buy has protective layer on both sides before buying. Anyway, this is how it looked. Didn’t like the tinted lights (didn’t expect to like it) so reverted back to stock! You might remember I had messed up my driver side headlight trying to defog it. I, therefore, used it as an excuse to order and fit new headlights. Much prefer the look of these. I was tempted by the halo type ones but those were too pricey and after the fail of chrome altezza lights, I thought to stick to a more close stock look. I also had a mesh grill for a few days. Whilst I color coded the stock grill (I prefer the 2001-02 front bumper 1 piece with the small badge look). The mesh grill looked really nice too so was in a dilemma. But in the end decided to stick with stock after color coded (using left over spray paint I had – did a decent job I feel). Still looking for a smaller badge to stick on. Sold the front grill to another member (sorry again @Mangoman for the mixup that happened with this), who is quite active so you will see it around. I took this pic at the local park. I was driving around and noticed loads of old school cars coming out of the park and realised there was a classic car event. So parked up and took my boy to the exit gate. We watched as the cars all excited. Best way to view all the cars without walking haha. Whilst walking back to my car I couldn’t help but take a picture. The guy in the blue coupe to the right couldn’t believe it when I got the pushchair, push-bike and a whole load of other stuff into the boot lol. I managed to lower the front and narrow down the arch gap to acceptable levels. I often load up the car in the back and so haven’t yet lowered the back (will need wheel archs to be rolled to prevent rubbing tyres) so for now it does lean downwards at the front. I like the look though! Funny story, the garage I went to started work on fitting the new shocks and springs and then they tell me they don’t fit. I couldn’t believe it. They showed me how the spring wouldn’t seat well at all. I took pics and pm’d Stu on facebook. Before he could respond though I realised what they had done. They were fitting the rear springs on the front shocks! Idiots lol. No harm done in the end though except wasting valuable time. Got them fitted and dropped the car from an almost 5 finger gap to just about 3. Not a major drop. But I can stop staring at the wheel gap and getting myself down about it! A few assorted pics that I have taken during ownership, a few after I had tried to clay bar and detail the car but it rained in between, still looks nice. The eagle eyed members will notice embarrassing fail of a touch up job I did on the rear arch. Oh just a btw, I tried the Sonas quick detailer but I personally find the demon shine makes my car shine and look detailed better, maybe its the colour of my car. As for the mechanicals. Apart from the usual atf and psf fluid changes the main thing I have done is change the front shocks and springs. I find it is definitely more stable at high speed. The ride is slightly better. I do still need to do the wheel alignment and swap around my tyres before the outer thread on the fronts wear out too much and this should hopefully 100% sort out the shimmying/vibration at high speeds. Which garage has the alignment values for lowered cars? I have the new vacuum mounts as well which I want to fit soon (STUUUU!). Oh and that knocking sound? Was the front driver side drop link again. Over time the nuts get loose and need re-tightening. All fixed for now. Hope you enjoyed the post!

Haha not mi6 that would be too exciting for me. Btw, I was in stafford today and spotted a green v6 coupe. Got so excited as havent seen any other coupes around. Then on the way back home via birmingham i spotted another coupe (not sure if v6) in the exact same colour as mine! 2 coupes in 1 day? What are the chances of that! As for this thread sorry its degenerated into a diagnostics one, ill try post pics of my car soon to spice it up abit. Been taking several randomly from different angles when i catch myself admiring it so will share. Happy weekend guys!

So true. He keeps accessing a secret service menu on my phone and changing settings!

Ah yes I see. Makes sense now. Have asked them to come round and fill the missing 100g as thats their mistake!

Thats the thing it was a sealed oil container not sure how he managed to get it open. Still not a good enough excuse on my part. Have to be extra careful and keep him away in such scenarios.

Thanks mate. All very useful tips. Ive learned so much! I can imagine all this online diagnostic advice/guesswork getting on ppls nerves now haha. Best to pay Stu a visit and sort out the car fully.