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Granted it is the break in oil change, but I'm not a big fan of the factory fill for these cars given that it's sheared out of grade in 1k miles. I was never going to run the factory fill or Hondas off-the-shelf oil, but I will be running Pennzoil Ultra Platinum or something higher at the end...

I haven't tried to remove it yet, so we'll see how it goes I guess ?.

This whole part here is loose so if I press on it (can visibly see a gap that closes when I press on it, so mine might be total garbage), it moves in and out and can rattle against the trim piece. I'm able to get it to rattle like crazy with music/sine sweeps, and I can touch it while it's doing...

I just realized this weekend that my front passenger speaker grill is like almost detached on the top or something so the whole upper section can just rattle in there. The way I even realized that was one of the rattles was using a sine sweep with the volume at a decent level. I used one on...

How's the drone? I imagine there has to be a little bit.

Yeah I'll be honest the rattles are starting to bother me. If I can't fix them or if it doesn't get better when the weather warms up then I may have to go to something else. Did you get the auto or manual? Just wondering if you think it's fun to drive like the DE5 is. A90 or M2 are basically...

Was it due to issues like the weird sounds and stuff that you got rid of it?

Yeah I really want to swap the fluid out for at least some decent DOT4 fluid, since the factory stuff is a mediocre DOT3 iirc.

I can help out here a bit, the rear calipers are Ate, as are the rear pads. The fronts are Brembo pad and caliper obviously. I replaced them with Paragon P2s front and rear but will be trying some Endless SSM+ soon. Stock front Brembo pad: Honda/Ate rear pad: Random dirty FK8 caliper off...

I've been trying to figure out who I want to tune my car and posts like this really make me want to just bite the bullet. Jester sounds a joy to deal with and I know he's tuned a TON of these cars at this point so I might be nearing my breaking point and finally getting it tuned. You mentioned...

Did mine like a month ago and the one nut got seized on the top stud toward the head and snapped the stud in half, the other nut came off but took half of the threads with it. Had to take it to a machine shop and they had a difficult time taking out the one that was seized. Asked them if they...

I asked them about this on an email and they said it's too much of a pain to do that piece for the time being, maybe in the future.

Yeah on mine that vent and the dash material around it squeaks when I press on it. Definitely some temperature and car movement dependence to it but man I'm hoping that goes away when the weather warms back up. That one is actually annoying enough I'm gonna have to pull it out and put some foam...

I'm in 30F-ish weather and with the heat on the vent on the driver side front of the dash aimed at the window makes some insane creaking sounds.

? You gotta take it easy until it warms up though! Until you get close to operating temp engines experience accelerated wear, especially with load, and that's aside from the car getting mad at you which is probably combustion event related.

Why would you drive it hard past 4500rpm if the engine isn't up to full operating temp ?

Looks like a 255/40/18 at 3000rpm in 6th gear is 82.39mph compared to 83.25mph with 265/35/19 and 79.94mph for the stock tire size. So yeah you're about 1mph closer than me to the real speed.

Yeah, with 265/35 I don't notice any difference in the rev-match downshifts, but you raise a good point there about the speed-rpm relationship for that system. 3-2 still feels great and 2-1 can be a bit awkward even with the stock size so I tend not to do that one often. Also with the stock...

I think it's foolish to drive through snow, or even those temperatures on PS4S since the temperature limit is 45F, and they're clearly not designed for winter weather with traction being significantly worse. You could also risk damaging the compound/sidewall as temperatures decrease beyond that...

My CX-30 also had nearly no rattles which is an aspect I miss. My brother got a 25 GR Corolla Premium Plus and so far it doesn't rattle at all with ~700 miles. Kinda embarrassing the DE5 rattles way more than a GRC (and other ~30k range cars) for way more money but it is awesome to drive other...