4WS Win

eDaniel · Post by **eDaniel** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:19 pm

4WS system is just great. It turns the clumsy Prelude into a car that can handle most of the U-turns with ease. Not to say how useful it is when parking the car

It needs some practice to get the full potential of the rear wheels when parking, but thats all.
The only maintenance needed (recommended) would be to resolder the 4WS ECU which is super simple task. Tis one of the best things Honda put in the legendary Prelude imho.

nickyboy · Post by **nickyboy** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:46 pm

eDaniel wrote:4WS system is just great. It turns the clumsy Prelude into a car that can handle most of the U-turns with ease. Not to say how useful it is when parking the car It needs some practice to get the full potential of the rear wheels when parking, but thats all.
The only maintenance needed (recommended) would be to resolder the 4WS ECU which is super simple task. Tis one of the best things Honda put in the legendary Prelude imho.

+1, I won't buy a Prelude without it

bennyboy · Post by **bennyboy** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:48 pm

nickyboy wrote:It's dope, end of. Those who dismiss it don't have it or theirs was busted.

Actually, ^this!
It does grind my gears when people say about 4WS always breaking, it really wasn't the case.
More often than not any issues are down to a duff sensor here or there and rarely the actual 4WS itself, providing its been looked after.
The trouble is the generally ignorant public didn't check them as often as they should, and when something (usually simple to fix) did arise, they decided to be unscrupulous bastards and remove fuses and sell on, thus tainting the image of yet another SUPERB bit of Honda kit, that was so far ahead of its time as usual that only now are people like Porsche putting on their supercars...

Post by **Ammo** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:53 pm

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:55 pm

this is why kids dont like your car

The "S" express · Post by **honda-hardy** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:59 pm

nitin_s1 wrote:Because it always broke?

not on a 3g, its mechanical and always engaged with no sensors to go faulty either and no ecu.

nickyboy · Post by **nickyboy** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:00 pm

Has anyone swapped the 3g 4ws into a 4th?

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:01 pm

After 10,000 miles of 4WS not working, I'm still trying to get used to it now that it does. Parking speeds stuff is entertaining; high speed corners don't really feel any different. Where it goes weird is when leaving slow roundabouts and the system switches from one way to the next. I guess the secret is to wait until you're on a straight before accelerating from, say, 15mph to 30.

I'm nowhere near confident enough in the system to take it on a track, yet I don't have any desire to turn it into 2WS.

(Mind you, the poor car's possibly just a lottery win away from becoming RWD! )

The "S" express · Post by **honda-hardy** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:03 pm

nickyboy wrote:Has anyone swapped the 3g 4ws into a 4th?

you will never do it. you need to make a tunnel the length of the car, make a recess in the fuel tank. add the front rack and drive assy too.
never been done im sure.

nickyboy · Post by **nickyboy** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:04 pm

I could totally feel the 4ws on fast bends in my 5th, could corner at insane bids no bother. Parking etc i'm not bothered about