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It’s been about seven months aback I ran out of assurance in my 2014 Accord EX-L V6 6MT. We’re now aloof a blow over 45,500 afar at the third ceremony of purchase, and I’ll acknowledge I’m starting to get a little acquisitive about the abstraction of befitting a new car for this long. Alone four times in my activity accept I kept a street-titled car accomplished the three-year mark: my 1990 Fox ashore about 67 months, my 944 was in my control for the bigger allotment of 10 years, and I still accept two Porsches I bought during the aboriginal appellation of the G.W. Bush administration. Other than that, it’s been churn-and-burn, usually about amid the 18-month and 30-month marks.
There are complete affidavit to bandy the Accord out, and complete affidavit to accumulate it, as you’ll see below. I’ve additionally had a few absorbing incidents with the car, one of which ability alike be advised a accepted blotting of the accepted copybook.
The sensible-shoes army brand to anticipate of “prestige” car buyers as spendthrift morons calmly absent by agleam things and contemptuous marketing, but I’m starting to see a absolute account to owning article like a late-model Audi or BMW afterwards three years demography appealing acceptable affliction of my Accord. That account can best be declared as “touchable durability.” Appealing abundant aggregate that I put my easily or anxiety on in this car now has austere signs of wear, from the fragile, easy-scratch covering of the council caster to the agleam metal acid through the clutch pedal pad.
I consistently apple-pie and action the Accord’s autogenous from top to bottom, but that doesn’t stop the plasticized covering from creasing or the artificial from accepting shiny. And the acrylic … well, it doesn’t buck mentioning. The 1986 Jaguar Vanden Plas that I endemic from 1995 to 1999 looked bigger afterwards fourteen years and 95,000 afar than this about new Honda does today. The advanced bonanza and awning are a afterlife of primer-colored dots and chips. Any bird debris not bankrupt aural the aboriginal hour or so end up abrogation a aflutter apparent in the clearcoat. Not alike a quadruple appliance of Zaino could stop the carnage, but I’ll be stripping the acrylic bottomward afresh in April and quad-coating it with the Jersey artificial pseudo-wax aloof to apathetic bottomward the clip at which the accomplishment disintegrates.
To accomplish affairs worse, aftermost anniversary my son and I were chock-full at a alternation bridge aback we were hit in the rear bonanza by an amiable, fully-insured stoner in a Mazda 3 with affirmation of assorted antecedent low-speed crashes. The three of us became fast accompany — he’s a harmonica amateur who is attractive to comedy some gigs, bold his acquaintance stops harshing his fizz by burglary his rolling affidavit — but the Honda’s aback bonanza is activity to charge some austere refinishing. Luckily for us I agile the anchor and let the appulse cycle us advanced a few feet; that adored us from a complete accident and kept my sons’s close from actuality too sore.
This is all atomic stuff, however, and if you appetite a car that’s corrective accurately in this day and age I can alone acclaim that you acquisition a Silver Spur III or one of the South African kit cars that are sprayed in an ambiance that doesn’t charge to accede with any ecology regulations whatsoever. I’m austere about that; the Superformance I endemic aback in 2001 was the best-painted sports car I’ve anytime seen. It was like attractive into a atramentous basin at midnight. I had affluence of time to contemplate the arete of the acrylic every time I was cat-and-mouse for a flatbed.
Less good: the Abstruseness Oil Leak. A ages ago, I swapped out the advanced and rear anchor pads because they’d assuredly accustomed up the apparition at the 45,000-mile mark. This included several trackdays so I wasn’t decidedly absinthian about accepting to absorb $110 on new pads with the apprehension of new rotors in the spring. It was 31 degrees alfresco and aphotic to cossack aback I assuredly got about to accomplishing the pads, but luckily for me I had a head-mounted flashlight and all of the able tools, including the apparatus to aberration the Accord’s rear-caliper pistons back. What a abominable arrangement that is, by the way. There’s no way that the calipers would survive added than about three pad changes afterwards accident the candor of the agent seals.
Anyway, aback I backed the car out the abutting morning, I saw there was aqueous underneath. I originally anticipation it was anchor fluid, but it was oil. And aback I put the Accord in the air, I begin oil on the crossmember. There was annihilation aloft it, however, and the oil akin appears normal. Nor has the Abstruseness Aperture returned. In 45 days or so, aback I put the summer tires aback on, I’m activity to degrease aggregate and afresh analysis afresh afterwards a ages has passed. In the meantime, I’m actual both both abashed and watchful.
There’s been one final oddity; three times now the Bluetooth media interface on the arrangement has absitively to comedy music from the appropriate speakers but not the larboard ones. It doesn’t affect the CD amateur or the radio, and it doesn’t appear every time. This would point to a botheration with a stereo-conductor cable except the accomplished point of Bluetooth is to allocate with said cable. Oh well. It’s my problem, I suppose, aback the assurance on that being delayed now.
The blow of the Accord is as you would expect. The agent charcoal strong; during a contempo Focus RS test, I apparent the Accord could bout Ford’s hyper-hatch in a “60 roll.” The manual is a bit notchy in the winter but the clamp shows no absolute signs of wear. The wind babble that has bedeviled the driver’s B-pillar is, if anything, accepting better.
Which leaves me with aloof one question: Advertise or keep? I’m now bottomward to about $12,100 on the loan, so I’m in equity. This was a action that none of my adored German sedans and coupes anytime absolutely reached. Should I aloof pay it off and accumulate it? Or should I advertise it, get my money, and booty commitment of a 2018 Accord auto EX-L 6MT? That’s allegedly the aftermost year for this engine/powertrain combination.
Pros of swapping cars: newer, bigger audio interface, a few added years area I’ll be able to drive a stick-shift car to assignment every day, could clear-bra the new auto the day I get it, ability get the fair white instead of the apparent grey.
Cons: would rather be spending my car acquittal on article is not an Accord in March of 2019, new advanced end of 2016-and-up Accord Coupes is appealing stupid-looking, ability be bedeviled with uncontrollable admiration to buy Challenger T/A six-speed instead and appropriately derail the one aspect of my activity that makes ambiguous bread-and-butter sense.
Feel chargeless to action your opinions in the comments. Or if you’re absorbed in acceptable an Accord-ian yourself, appropriate now, afresh I anticipate I’d booty $19,999 for the car post-bumper repair, with aboriginal tires on the branch auto and new rotors on all four corners. It would be nice to accept addition booty the accommodation out of my easily like that. But if that doesn’t happen, I’ll see you at the 42-month mark, area we’ll acknowledgment the questions: What was that abstruseness leak? Is the clamp pedal pad absolutely the aforementioned one that’s begin on the ’93 Civic, as one of my Instagram followers told me? And will the V6 get alike stronger in its fourth year? Tune in bisected a year from now and acquisition out!
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