WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR FRS TODAY?

[Qwimby1]

Originally Posted by Wally86

This was the first question a smart alec person asked on IG and I've turned off traction control exactly four times ever. Three times to do a single donut and one time to do a 180. All in parking lots. Never while normal driving. I'd say I'm old but everyone here will deny that 39 is old so I'm... aged? And unwilling to turn off nannies. All that said, I don't see how TC would have helped when I was off of the ground but I get the sentiment.

Compared to me, you should still be in diapers. I can't use the pedal dance before the car is warmed up, of course, but I always switch off the nannys. I believe in driving the car myself, and I've done a lot of instructing on the skid pad.

[Wally86]

Originally Posted by Qwimby1

Compared to me, you should still be in diapers. I can't use the pedal dance before the car is warmed up, of course, but I always switch off the nannys. I believe in driving the car myself, and I've done a lot of instructing on the skid pad.

That last sentence makes all the difference

[Qwimby1]

Originally Posted by Wally86

That last sentence makes all the difference

I guess so, but I shouldn't have been tooting my own horn. Watch me tag the Armco next time out! FWIW, I'm very happy with my Firestone Firehawk Indy 500s here in rainy Florida.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Wally86

That last sentence makes all the difference

It does. Like Quimby, I have a couple decades on you. Hooning in dirt/mud/snow since childhood, I tend to forget how much it has skewed my viewpoint.

[jeepmor]

Drove mine to Lowe's, got some wood filler to fix some house details after the big project of new siding, trim, garage and entry door on the house.

Wife threw in some of that bubble wrap mylar stuff for a project in the RV since we're in the heat bubble. She wants to make some window fitting items out of the mylar bubble wrap for the baking side windows facing the heat. Will be much more challenging than our old vanagon westy 20 years or so behind us. Those windows had a full channel you just cut the perimeter and stuff it into for a good fit as I just checked the trailer. I had to use sunscreens from windows back then, which folded up nice. Have to just them up with this new kit. Helped a lot in the winter keeping the heat in. Banking on the same concept to keep it out this time. It'll give us something to do together.

A month or more ago I had an HKS Supercharger put on, woohoo. HKS base tune with the plug and play dongle. A discontinued kit option now.

Quite happy. Some suspension bits give occasional hop on takeoff, That's ongoing, the heat makes it worse.

[Sapphireho]

Going to pick up a new battery today. I don't trust the original 6+ year old battery.

[BirdTRD]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Going to pick up a new battery today. I don't trust the original 6+ year old battery.

Kudos for getting 6 years out of it.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by BirdTRD

Kudos for getting 6 years out of it.

We just replaced the battery in my son's 2002 Accord. The battery was almost 10 years old. Even at that it was performing fine until it went completely dead thanks to a bad brake light switch that drained it. Even then, it fully charged, but wouldn't hold the charge.

OK, it wasn't a bad brake light switch, it was a rubber grommet that broke. The Accord has a rubber grommet that is contacted by the brake light switch when the brake is not engaged. If that grommet fails, the brake light switch goes through the hole where the grommet was and the brake light stays on (thinking the brake light has been pressed).

We discussed doing a redneck fix by putting either a bolt or even a tie-wrap through the hole but ultimately we replaced the $1 grommet with a new one.

[BirdTRD]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

We just replaced the battery in my son's 2002 Accord. The battery was almost 10 years old. Even at that it was performing fine until it went completely dead thanks to a bad brake light switch that drained it. Even then, it fully charged, but wouldn't hold the charge.

Wow, must be the weather! 5 years is when I start battery shopping...if it lasts that long. Only got 4 years out of my OEM battery.

[StraightOuttaCanadaEh]

Originally Posted by BirdTRD

Wow, must be the weather! 5 years is when I start battery shopping...if it lasts that long. Only got 4 years out of my OEM battery.

I got 3! Barely too, the last year it died on me several times and I had to be rescued

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by BirdTRD

Wow, must be the weather! 5 years is when I start battery shopping...if it lasts that long. Only got 4 years out of my OEM battery.

I was actually shocked when I saw the sticker on the battery. I would say I average 4years at most normally. My '13 86 is on it's 3rd battery now.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Going to pick up a new battery today. I don't trust the original 6+ year old battery.

Mine gave out at, like 60,200 miles. I watched one of the cells slowly lose capacity for a couple years. Would love another factory battery for fun.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Mine gave out at, like 60,200 miles. I watched one of the cells slowly lose capacity for a couple years. Would love another factory battery for fun.

Mine still works. I only have about 24k miles. I just feel it's time. It has been completely drained about 4 times. I just don't want to be away from home on a drive with the wife and have it fail. I left my dongle plugged in overnight and drained it again.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Mine still works. I only have about 24k miles. I just feel it's time. It has been completely drained about 4 times. I just don't want to be away from home on a drive with the wife and have it fail. I left my dongle plugged in overnight and drained it again.

It's the prudent thing to do.