Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous

Michaell

28firefighter said:

Treated the 911 to an oil change and manual transmission fluid change today. They said they went over it top to bottom and that it’s unbelievably clean. Like new. I’m not winterizing it yet in hopes I can get a bit more driving in.

The Tacoma is a winner so far - my wife took it from me today and declared it drives better than the Jeep (which seems more an indictment of the Jeep than the driving quality of the Tacoma). Also getting shockingly good fuel economy on it. Full thoughts coming soon.

Gotta update that signature line!

stickguy

Bradd, does the integra come with blind spot monitors?

jmonroe1

28firefighter said:

Treated the 911 to an oil change and manual transmission fluid change today. They said they went over it top to bottom and that it’s unbelievably clean. Like new. I’m not winterizing it yet in hopes I can get a bit more driving in.

The Tacoma is a winner so far - my wife took it from me today and declared it drives better than the Jeep (which seems more an indictment of the Jeep than the driving quality of the Tacoma). Also getting shockingly good fuel economy on it. Full thoughts coming soon.

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@breld’s reasoning would be he isn’t sure he’ll still have the car come Winter.

jmonroe

Michaell

jmonroe1 said:

28firefighter said:

Treated the 911 to an oil change and manual transmission fluid change today. They said they went over it top to bottom and that it’s unbelievably clean. Like new. I’m not winterizing it yet in hopes I can get a bit more driving in.

The Tacoma is a winner so far - my wife took it from me today and declared it drives better than the Jeep (which seems more an indictment of the Jeep than the driving quality of the Tacoma). Also getting shockingly good fuel economy on it. Full thoughts coming soon.

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@breld’s reasoning would be he isn’t sure he’ll still have the car come Winter.

jmonroe

If I'm not mistaken, @breld is coming up on 1 year of ownership of his 911.

benjaminh

@nyccarguy Congrats! Welcome back to Acura.

nyccarguy

benjaminh said:

@nyccarguy Congrats! Welcome back to Acura.

Thanks!

nyccarguy

stickguy said:

Bradd, does the integra come with blind spot monitors?

Yes. It does. One of the reasons I stayed away from a Civic LX & Accord LX is because those models don't have blind spot monitors. You need to step up to the Sport model. The Integra's lease program, available discounts, & incentives were just that much better.

ab348

My Caddy has blind spot monitors but I have to say I find them pretty useless because they only appear in the outside mirrors where you would see the other vehicle anyway if you were looking in those. AFAIK there is no audible or other warning beyond this:

benjaminh

The list price on a base Integra with red paint is slightly more than $35,000, and that means that a lease at $350 a month gets to that elusive 1% goal. I got to that way back in 2018 with my TLX.

@nyccarguy are you thinking you'll only keep the Integra for the 3 years of the lease, or is there a chance you might buy it for the residual at the end? My residual ended up being a good deal.

Any more impressions of the Integra in terms of driving dynamics or anything else you care to share?

sda

28firefighter said:

Treated the 911 to an oil change and manual transmission fluid change today. They said they went over it top to bottom and that it’s unbelievably clean. Like new. I’m not winterizing it yet in hopes I can get a bit more driving in.

The Tacoma is a winner so far - my wife took it from me today and declared it drives better than the Jeep (which seems more an indictment of the Jeep than the driving quality of the Tacoma). Also getting shockingly good fuel economy on it. Full thoughts coming soon.

Have you already handed off the BMW to someone else?

nyccarguy

benjaminh said:

The list price on a base Integra with red paint is slightly more than $35,000, and that means that a lease at $350 a month gets to that elusive 1% goal. I got to that way back in 2018 with my TLX.

@nyccarguy are you thinking you'll only keep the Integra for the 3 years of the lease, or is there a chance you might buy it for the residual at the end? My residual ended up being a good deal.

Any more impressions of the Integra in terms of driving dynamics or anything else you care to share?

The sticker on my Integra is $34,195. I took a 39 month lease. Leasing with Acura gives some degree of flexibility. You can extend 6 months, If you lease another Acura they forgive up to 1/2 of the over miles (up to a certain point), or I can buy it out. The residual after 39 months is $19,149.20 + 6.35% sales tax. Let's see how the car holds up and what kind of condition it is in after 39 months. I've got time to think about it. Honestly I haven't driven the Integra since I picked it up on Thursday night. We had torrential rain and lots of wind on Thursday. The roads were just a mess with twigs and leaves all over the place on Friday. I'll try to drive it one day next week and post my thoughts.

Until then:

au1994

I swear the Prelude is laughing at the others having to live out in the elements.

Michaell

Yeah, I'm trying to get the garage cleaned out after our basement project so I can get the Outback into it, before the snow starts.

(fun fact - the average date of the first snow in Denver is October 18. It's now the 1st of November and not one flake here in the city. Lots of snow up in the mountains, already.)

oldfarmer50

Michaell said:

Yeah, I'm trying to get the garage cleaned out after our basement project so I can get the Outback into it, before the snow starts.

(fun fact - the average date of the first snow in Denver is October 18. It's now the 1st of November and not one flake here in the city. Lots of snow up in the mountains, already.)

Doesn’t CO snow come and go where you have a foot one day and then it’s 70 the next and it all melts?

Where I am once it starts snowing we usually have it until next spring.