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Spent a lot of time working on the car today, although nothing really exciting, in fact, quite boring. I worked on the paint correction that I started a few days ago. Personally, this is my absolute least favorite task to do on a car. It’s very time consuming and tedious, there’s too many...

Yes sorry! There were a few very clean examples, but the majority were about what you’d expect for a 20 year old car- still driving but definitely had issues. Very few with manuals. Probably 90+ percent of the ones I saw were automatics.

There’s a billion OEM-type knobs on eBay, most of them are claiming to be genuine but I’m gonna guess a lot of them are probably knockoffs based on the price and where they are shipping from. For something like a shift knob, it doesn’t matter all that much. The original shift knob for this car...

Beautiful car! 2006 must be a good year, because there’s three of them here! Thanks! Well, besides the shift knob (lol), the next few items on the agenda that I know of are- 1.) finish polishing the paint and wax it 2.) replace the front grille 3.) replace the air intake hose 4.) flush the...

So I went to the junkyard today to get a pigtail to make the clutch switch adjustment procedure a bit easier. I hooked the pigtail to my multimeter and adjusted it until there was continuity, rather than starting the car and checking a bunch of times. I followed the procedure to a T and honestly...

Thanks for all the replies everyone. Appreciate all the compliments and I hope you’ll all follow along! Nice car! It’s encouraging to see other TSXs with higher mileage! Glad to have you following along! There were a lot of super clean automatic TSXs for sale but I was really dead set on...

The day after I bought the car, I made a trip to the junkyard to hopefully find some parts for it. They had two TSXs. Between them, I managed to get a wiper arm, some trim clips, a few fasteners, the decklid badges, a clutch switch, a battery terminal cover, and some factory-style hose clamps. I...

If you followed the thread on my 1997 Accord, I hope you’ll enjoy this thread as well. This thread will be to document and share the work on my new project/daily driver, a 2006 Acura TSX, which replaced the Accord. I always loved these TSXs and the Acura TLs ever since they came out when I was a...

Ahh, you guys might guilt me into it! Stay tuned!

Well all good things must come to an end, and the Honda Accord saga ends here. The Accord went to a new owner last Wednesday. Just felt it was time to move on. I had my fun with it and I was ready for a new project. I picked up a new car to tinker with on Wednesday of this week, it’s a 2006...

I’m so confused by the original post… is there a question? 🤣

You bring up a great point and I totally agree. Like I said, this is not a highly scientific test. The good news is that those last 2578 miles included some summer miles, as I hardly drove the truck during the winter. According to my Carfax log, on September 24 of last year, I was at 102,484...

Redline SI-1 seems to be a forum favorite and there’s a lot of evidence out there that it works as advertised. I’ve never used it before in any vehicle, so I decided to pick up a couple bottles and perform a test of my own. I’m strictly going to be testing whether or not fuel economy is...

I can think of a few relatively mainstream vehicles that hold resale extremely well- Honda S2000s Jeep Wranglers 2007 and older Diesel 3/4 ton trucks Cadillac CTS-Vs (on the edge of not being mainstream but I wouldn’t consider them an exotic), basically every generation.

I saw the news yesterday almost as soon as it broke. Still can’t believe he’s gone. I’m a big NASCAR fan, I watch weekly and go to at least one race every year. I wasn’t really a Rowdy fan early on in his career, but I grew to really like him and began to root for him after he moved to RCR. He...

The only solution is to drive a a Dodge with a 12 valve Cummins.

Since I fixed the interior door handle, I decided I should fix the exterior door handle too. If you go back to post 270 on page 14, you’ll see I mentioned it was partially broken, and I’ve just been dealing with it since. I ordered a Dorman one and it was a complete piece of junk. It was made...

Just part of owning an older car, all stuff to be expected.

Replaced those brakes on my sisters car. Probably could’ve reused the pads but I didn’t. These new rotors are fully coated Bosch units and Akebono pads. I’m convinced this was caused by a defect/quality issue, rather than environmental factors or abuse.

Doesn’t burn any, and I sleep better at night! I change the oil whenever it gets to 50% on the OLM. Sometimes it’s 1500 miles, sometimes it’s 4000 miles. I don’t think I’ve ever gone more than 5k though.