I'll respond inline so it's clear. I'll also omit things that I find irrelevant:
What are you doing differently? I'm not a tire expert, but this to me looks like normal wear, but WAY more than I'd expect at 12k miles.
I never turned traction control down or off until a few weeks ago. I'm...
Get like me bro this was at ~12k miles
For real though, are you that hard on tires? Because if so, you’ve got about 3k miles left.
There’s a guy local to me that changes the front tires on his FK8 every 5k miles. That’s crazy, but equally as crazy as expecting over 20k miles from the OE tires...
You were pretty close – brake vectoring is a huge part of it. I drive my car hard, and I was not surprised that I wore through my tires at < 15k miles and my rear brake pads in about 25k miles
Main takeaways:
is it weird that the rear pads are wearing out that fast? Not necessarily
is it weird...
this is a bit misleading albeit unintentionally.
I wouldn’t count on people doing the pedal dance as commonplace.
The typical use case is more likely spirited driving with traction control fully on, and so RIP rear brakes, and way sooner than the front.
On that note, my rear pads were gone at...
It's the wastegate actuator. Pop your hood and poke around on it. You'll see why it makes the noise. It's just how it works. Buy some of those ring earplugs or something lol
It's the brand. There's a guy named Jason Schmuck (really lol) that makes honda parts, but he has a Type S so he made these tanks too. Pretty cool!
Here's a link if you're curious: https://www.schmuckbuilt.com/product/de5-coolant-expansion-tank/
No regrets! Now that I have a non-resonated exhaust and a TSP downpipe, I actually had the pops and bangs toned down.
There are a lot of options!
I will say this is kind of like asking crackheads if they like smoking crack though....