Canadian Tire filters for an NSX?
No. Canadian Tire sells a lot of filters under different brand names. What I remember specifically is that my son had previously purchased some 'higher end' Fram filter for his RSX and that the Honda filter that I picked up for him was significantly lower in price than the Fram filter. That got me curious and I checked the package cost of the three filters for our Honda vehicles from Honda versus the available Canadian Tire filters and the Honda all in cost was less and included the crush washers.
That said, I am less sold on the relative merits of different oil filters. Change the oil and filter regularly and I think most of them will be just fine. If you go to the track and think that you are suffering a pressure loss under WOT conditions , then maybe you need to explore higher flow options.
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. I wasn't aware I could get NSX filters from the Honda dealer.
Dilawri recently relocated the Acura dealership from being adjacent to their BMW building to being adjacent to their Honda building. The Acura parts department has now been folded into the Honda parts department. I also suspect that the physical service facilities are now common as last time I was in there I didn't notice separate service bays for Acura. I don't know whether the service techs moved with the change in facilities. That would be something to check.
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On a separate note, I had a need to replace my EMS and IIRC, they quoted me something like $1700 and a long time to get it. I went online and bought new from a US Acura dealer for about $850 and had it within 10 days. I presume Acura Canada sets the Cdn/US price spread so maybe you can't blame Dilawri for that..
I suspect that if you look at the US Honda / Acura list price for parts, the part price discrepancy between US and Canada might not be so drastic. However, in the US, I think their federal anti competition laws are much more 'activist' with the result that large dealerships are free to discount their prices. In Canada, either Honda is able to enforce mandatory parts pricing because of less rigorous anti completion laws or the dealerships are not motivated to enter the on-line parts market and get into a head to head price bashing exercise for parts sales. I don't know the cause for lack of parts discounting in Canada.
However, since Ian did raise the US versus Canada parts issue, it did remind me of a negative experience I had which may be more attributable to Honda Canada than the dealership. When I purchased my NSX, the trunk struts were pretty much at the end of their useful life. I went into the dealership to order new struts. To no surprise, I was advised that they were not in stock and that they were going to have to come from Japan, that it was going to take a couple of months and the price was very 'special'. I was prepared for a higher price for OEM. I was not prepared for the extended delivery and a price adder. That event precipitated my first cross border NSX parts purchase which resulted in two struts showing up on my doorstep in about two weeks for less than the cost of one strut from the dealership. If I were purchasing a new NSX, one of the things I would be quizzing the dealership and Honda / Acura Canada about is how they are going to support the car. Given the low volume of sales in Canada, I don't expect that Honda / Acura is going to be maintaining a large stock of non consumables for the NSX. If you break something or something does break, is the part going to have to be shipped from Japan? It might be nice if Honda / Acura Canada had some kind of sharing or purchase arrangement with Honda US who is probably going to have a larger sales volume which would support maintaining a larger inventory of spare parts.