Early 90's Honda Prelude VTEC opinions please
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I had a jap import prelude vtec for 3 years. It was a 91 with 2ws and not 4ws. It was extremely reliable, we did roughly 50k in it and the stuff that went wrong was...
Clutch died
Rad died
Electrical fault due to a dry solder joint in the dash somewhere
...and that's pretty much it. When I drove it warped its discs fairly regularly but after I gave it to my wife after two years it didn't. They use oil a bit if you use the vtec a lot but just keep topping them up and they go on and on and on.
It's a nice car to drive and pretty quick. I got bored of it in the end because of the fwd (although doesn't understeer too much and is an exceptional fwd car compared to all the others I've had) and the vtec got on my nerves after a while. My wife loved and was a bit p*ssed off when I traded it in.
Mark
PS. Handling is very neutral. I didn't think the servicing was too bad even though we always had it serviced by Honda main dealers (nice bunch imo too). The bits we did need such as the clutch, rad, discs etc aren't too expensive at all. I did go through 2 exhausts though, should have got the 1st one in stainless in retrospect.
>> Edited by dern on Wednesday 22 October 21:18
Clutch died
Rad died
Electrical fault due to a dry solder joint in the dash somewhere
...and that's pretty much it. When I drove it warped its discs fairly regularly but after I gave it to my wife after two years it didn't. They use oil a bit if you use the vtec a lot but just keep topping them up and they go on and on and on.
It's a nice car to drive and pretty quick. I got bored of it in the end because of the fwd (although doesn't understeer too much and is an exceptional fwd car compared to all the others I've had) and the vtec got on my nerves after a while. My wife loved and was a bit p*ssed off when I traded it in.
Mark
PS. Handling is very neutral. I didn't think the servicing was too bad even though we always had it serviced by Honda main dealers (nice bunch imo too). The bits we did need such as the clutch, rad, discs etc aren't too expensive at all. I did go through 2 exhausts though, should have got the 1st one in stainless in retrospect.
>> Edited by dern on Wednesday 22 October 21:18
Mine's a humble 2.0 on a K plate. had it for about 18 months. No problem at all, bit of rust around rear whhel arches ( I do mean just a bit), very reliable, cracking handling, understeers a smidge in wet on 195 section tyres. v good throttle response. Up to 35 mpg on motorway run (75-80) dropping to mid/high 20s with a bit more 'spirit'. Insurance high though.. anyone recommend cheap broker? got a (Janspeed) stainless exhaust when old one went. bit of extra power and sounds great
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