New member - 5th gen
Posted: Fri May 01, 2020 3:45 pm
Hi all,
Thought I'd sign up here as I bought a gen 5 Prelude, somehow, nine months ago as a replacement for my Volvo when the PCP ended on that. I got bored of paying for cars that were never actually mine and wanted something fun to drive that I could mess around with, to an extent, and enjoy rather than be paranoid about. Never actually considered a Prelude in the past, but I started working for Honda UK about 18 months ago and getting to play with the press fleet every day I have been won over by them...randomly the search came down between this and a Legend of all things. Bit of searching and came across this on Car and Classic - 80k miles, belts done less than 1k ago, fsh, full motegi kit including badge (well, most of it - looks like someone's tried nicking it at some point and I've been left with 3/4's of a badge...) and a nigh on mint interior.
In the time I've had it, I've added a Cat 1 alarm and the guys in the workshop at work undersealed it for me when I picked it up...and that's about it. But being on lockdown has left me with a lot of spare time so managed to clay, polish, wax and seal the thing last weekend. I was using it every day to begin with, but trying to squeeze a growing labradoodle in the back of it was getting harder, so I bought a Civic Aerodeck VTI-S that's sucked a lot of time away from this. That's as tidy as it's going to get as a daily so I'm back on the Prelude now and, having recently sold my Impreza Type-R, I finally have cash to sink in to this now as well - with not needing to use it every day, I'm still tempted to whack a set of TE37's on it and lower it, but the other half of me wants to keep it stock. Either way, I have a list of niggles and minor gripes I want to work through first, worst of which is the minor bubbling on the rear arch(es)...
But that's me, and my car. Will start a proper thread for it when I finally pull my finger out and start buying parts or doing bits to it!
Cheers,
John
Thought I'd sign up here as I bought a gen 5 Prelude, somehow, nine months ago as a replacement for my Volvo when the PCP ended on that. I got bored of paying for cars that were never actually mine and wanted something fun to drive that I could mess around with, to an extent, and enjoy rather than be paranoid about. Never actually considered a Prelude in the past, but I started working for Honda UK about 18 months ago and getting to play with the press fleet every day I have been won over by them...randomly the search came down between this and a Legend of all things. Bit of searching and came across this on Car and Classic - 80k miles, belts done less than 1k ago, fsh, full motegi kit including badge (well, most of it - looks like someone's tried nicking it at some point and I've been left with 3/4's of a badge...) and a nigh on mint interior.
In the time I've had it, I've added a Cat 1 alarm and the guys in the workshop at work undersealed it for me when I picked it up...and that's about it. But being on lockdown has left me with a lot of spare time so managed to clay, polish, wax and seal the thing last weekend. I was using it every day to begin with, but trying to squeeze a growing labradoodle in the back of it was getting harder, so I bought a Civic Aerodeck VTI-S that's sucked a lot of time away from this. That's as tidy as it's going to get as a daily so I'm back on the Prelude now and, having recently sold my Impreza Type-R, I finally have cash to sink in to this now as well - with not needing to use it every day, I'm still tempted to whack a set of TE37's on it and lower it, but the other half of me wants to keep it stock. Either way, I have a list of niggles and minor gripes I want to work through first, worst of which is the minor bubbling on the rear arch(es)...
But that's me, and my car. Will start a proper thread for it when I finally pull my finger out and start buying parts or doing bits to it!
Cheers,
John
