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06-08-2021, 08:22 AM
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^ I think those people are going to be sadly disappointed with the return compared to other investment vehicles (<- no pun intended haha)
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06-08-2021, 08:40 AM
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#3777 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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If I was voted prime minister first thing I’d do is make a stipulation that sellers have to pay tax on used enthusiast cars if they haven’t driven them either a certain amount of kilometres or attended a minimum number of C+Cs or track days.
I eagerly await your votes.
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06-08-2021, 09:02 AM
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Should we start buying Supras now??? Profit
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06-08-2021, 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by JDMDreams Should we start buying Supras now??? Profit | The ship has sailed with trying to snag up a potential "collector" car. Anyone who bought a vehicle period pre-COVID is pretty much laughing all the way to the bank now. Even shitty vehicles are commanding higher than normal prices. The whole pre-owned market is completely out of whack currently.
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06-08-2021, 09:32 AM
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#3780 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Someone bought a 2004 neon with 89miles on BAT for 19k USD. I literally wouldn’t pay $19 for a fucking neon.
It’s a fucking joke.
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Originally Posted by boostfever Westopher is correct. | Quote:
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Originally Posted by punkwax Well.. I’d hate to be the first to say it, but Westopher is correct. | | |
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06-08-2021, 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by GIZZ They have a Hunter drive through alignment checker. He’s not asking for it, they’re just checking it as a courtesy and potential sales. | But why was the owner visiting the dealership every 10 days. I guess maybe the owner worked there?
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06-08-2021, 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by westopher Someone bought a 2004 neon with 89miles on BAT for 19k USD. I literally wouldn’t pay $19 for a fucking neon.
It’s a fucking joke. | I just searched it up. crapped my pants that it actually happened.
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06-08-2021, 12:31 PM
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#3783 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Like, a neon SRT4? Or just a shitbox Plymouth neon or wtv
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06-08-2021, 12:32 PM
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#3784 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Yeah I mean, I get the nostalgia tax. I paid a shitload of it, but who ever had a fuckin good time in a neon? The high school meth dealer? That would have been an srt-4 at least.
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06-08-2021, 12:43 PM
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It is nuts, I bought a Prelude SR-V prior to COVID off some kid, single family owned, pretty obscure car for next to nothing just based on my own nostalgia and never having owned one... little did I know suddenly in 2 years it’s a collector car (I do have collector plates on it) and I am seeing them go for like $15,000 in the USA which is more than 3x what I paid for it... insanity. I mean it’s a cool enough car but it’s not earth shattering and I find it uncomfortable to sit in hence thinking of selling it
At that time I didn’t even have to see the ad and email within 30 seconds either... I saw it for like a week and went to see it and then hmmm’d and hawww’d for like another week and then decided to buy it... not like today where you have to almost know about it before the seller even knows they're selling it.
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06-08-2021, 01:58 PM
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Sold 2 cars, made money on both, but now struggling to find a replacement daily beater. $2000 beaters are now $5000 and rebuilt cars are same price as clean title  | |
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06-08-2021, 01:59 PM
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I’ve got a Prelude you can live all your JDM dreams with
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06-08-2021, 02:33 PM
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#3788 | | Need to Seek Professional Help
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Originally Posted by GIZZ I now know of 2 local LE’s, one brought in from out of province. Both went straight into storage, their idea of an investment. Right now it’s better than money in the bank but there’s are so many better ways to make money. | Good luck storing modern cars with sophisticated electronics. 20yrs later and all the electronic that needs replacing Honda probably going to have parts discontinued by then.
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06-08-2021, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by teggy604 Good luck storing modern cars with sophisticated electronics. 20yrs later and all the electronic that needs replacing Honda probably going to have parts discontinued by then. | Not even hyperbole... I know of a lot of problems with the early 90's NSX's there's been some dash fires from melting capacitors on the circuit boards behind the gauge cluster... and even my Prelude the A/C button appears to work intermittently and the fix is to pull the button system out and re-solder all the solder points on the circuit board.
It can only get worse with screens and LCD dashes, etc.
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06-08-2021, 04:33 PM
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#3790 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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Originally Posted by GIZZ I now know of 2 local LE’s, one brought in from out of province. Both went straight into storage, their idea of an investment. Right now it’s better than money in the bank but there’s are so many better ways to make money. | Seems like quite a risky bet, especially with a new one around the corner with likely better specs.
I was talking to someone out of the blue at a parking lot and he mentioned that there are ~25 LEs they know of coming to Lower Mainland (based on a WhatsApp group he's in), so if that's true I'm sure we'll see at least a few in the city out and about.
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06-08-2021, 07:34 PM
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#3791 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Originally Posted by teggy604 Good luck storing modern cars with sophisticated electronics. 20yrs later and all the electronic that needs replacing Honda probably going to have parts discontinued by then. | what’s the reason circuit boards fail from just sitting there?
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06-08-2021, 08:46 PM
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Capacitors are a big one. They either dry out internally and look normal but don't work, or leak the corrosive filling everywhere which will short things out and slowly eat through the circuit board and the thin wires embedded in it. Anything 25+ years old will be prone to this eventually, but some problems are more common that others and it can happen much sooner. In my era Celica the two in the ECU that are part of the CEL circuit like to leak and cause damage to the injector drivers, and the ones that work the tach like to dry out so it bounces around like crazy. Both of my ECU's had them starting to leak when I pulled them apart and replaced all the caps a couple years ago.
Odds are most people who have been tossing aftermarket EMS into 20+ year old cars because it won't run quite right just needed new caps in their ECU.
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06-08-2021, 10:14 PM
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#3793 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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i still remember your old posts fixing xbox/playstation haha
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06-08-2021, 11:05 PM
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I still have a stack of broken 360's in my basement, I was going to fix them and then mod them for LAN parties but I never got around to it.
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06-09-2021, 08:32 AM
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My 2001 ITR ecu capacitor leaked. Gave me a CEL I spent a lot of time and money on trouble shooting. It was actually a product recall if it happened early on. I was lucky to get another Canadian spec ITR ecu locally. They are Canadian specific and then 00-01 was different than other years. Electronic failures are the worst.
I question if there is anyone out there willing to spend $75k-90k on a Civic Type R LE. Even if I had the money I wouldn’t.
That said I will get another FK8. They are fast and fun and I can haul my kids easily. Even my wife enjoys driving it and wants to try it at the track.
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06-09-2021, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero what’s the reason circuit boards fail from just sitting there? | Moisture, condensation, temperature etc. The way I see modern car is literally a computer on wheels. Have some fun, build some memories, then it goes into the garbage.
I have a friend that works as a tech for LandRover and the amount of blackout gauge cluster he gets for warranty is crazy. They just swap in a new unit. They dont bother fixing the old guage clusters.
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06-09-2021, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by 68style and even my Prelude the A/C button appears to work intermittently and the fix is to pull the button system out and re-solder all the solder points on the circuit board. |
I had an 88 CRX and that was the fix for one of the relays. Without doing that, the car wouldn't start. Sometimes I could wack the dash and the car would magically start.
On a lesser extent, the clock on my wife's 00 CRV went and the re-solder was the fix as well.
Those were the days.
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06-09-2021, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by teggy604 Moisture, condensation, temperature etc. The way I see modern car is literally a computer on wheels. Have some fun, build some memories, then it goes into the garbage.
I have a friend that works as a tech for LandRover and the amount of blackout gauge cluster he gets for warranty is crazy. They just swap in a new unit. They dont bother fixing the old guage clusters. | Sounds like a small side business opportunity for out of warranty vehicles  | |
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06-10-2021, 09:07 AM
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Originally Posted by 68style Sounds like a small side business opportunity for out of warranty vehicles | It will be tough. Unlike the old days where you can buy a scanner from Canadian tire and scan fault codes, today's car require more expensive and complicated diagnose equip that only dealers will have.
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