Ok cool bc i do too for the most part and i was curious bc reading on here i find a lot of comments that deal with people not driving theirs as much and so it made wonder if there could be something i dont know that i should potentially worry about
Daily driver on notoriously bad DC-area roads. Over the past 22 months of ownership, I've driven 74 miles a day on weekdays (to/from work, errands, picking up wife in the District, etc.) with frequent road trips up/down the East coast on weekends. I've put 51K miles on the car through summer heat, spring storms, and winter salt/snow. I actually gave up my previous car because I just stopped driving it entirely. The NSX is all I've got when...
I go to Costco:
Camping:
Ikea:
Bad weather:
For anything the NSX can't handle, we use Zipcar (rarely happens: we've borrowed a Zipcar about twice a year so far only). Rolled 134K coming back from NSXPO 2014.
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Three things I've learned so far daily-driving:
In my area, I absolutely needed to raise the car up. I was slammed on sagging Eibachs/Bilsteins and I loved the look, but it was completely impractical in the DC-area. I ended up solving this problem two-fold: moved up to KWv3 suspension and installed the iLIFT Systems VRH kit.
Either accept that you will get rock chips, or take steps to protect your car. Initially this was heartbreaking, but then I got over it. I have since redone the front of my car and am now going for Xpel PPF, so that should keep my car in great shape for a long time to come.
Tires. Tires tires tires. I go through about two sets of rears a year and one set of fronts. This year I am gonna get smart and actually get winter tires swapped on next month, so that should work out well: half the year on winters, half the year on extreme performance summers. I think that will work out well.
Daily driver on notoriously bad DC-area roads. Over the past 22 months of ownership, I've driven 74 miles a day on weekdays (to/from work, errands, picking up wife in the District, etc.) with frequent road trips up/down the East coast on weekends. I've put 51K miles on the car through summer heat, spring storms, and winter salt/snow. I actually gave up my previous car because I just stopped driving it entirely.
Daily driver on notoriously bad DC-area roads. Over the past 22 months of ownership, I've driven 74 miles a day on weekdays (to/from work, errands, picking up wife in the District, etc.) with frequent road trips up/down the East coast on weekends. I've put 51K miles on the car through summer heat, spring storms, and winter salt/snow. I actually gave up my previous car because I just stopped driving it entirely. The NSX is all I've got when...
I go to Costco:
Camping:
Ikea:
Bad weather:
For anything the NSX can't handle, we use Zipcar (rarely happens: we've borrowed a Zipcar about twice a year so far only). Rolled 134K coming back from NSXPO 2014.
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Three things I've learned so far daily-driving:
In my area, I absolutely needed to raise the car up. I was slammed on sagging Eibachs/Bilsteins and I loved the look, but it was completely impractical in the DC-area. I ended up solving this problem two-fold: moved up to KWv3 suspension and installed the iLIFT Systems VRH kit.
Either accept that you will get rock chips, or take steps to protect your car. Initially this was heartbreaking, but then I got over it. I have since redone the front of my car and am now going for Xpel PPF, so that should keep my car in great shape for a long time to come.
Tires. Tires tires tires. I go through about two sets of rears a year and one set of fronts. This year I am gonna get smart and actually get winter tires swapped on next month, so that should work out well: half the year on winters, half the year on extreme performance summers. I think that will work out well.
Tires. Tires tires tires. I go through about two sets of rears a year and one set of fronts. This year I am gonna get smart and actually get winter tires swapped on next month, so that should work out well: half the year on winters, half the year on extreme performance summers. I think that will work out well.
Thank you good sir. Your 3 tips are valuable and ive come to expect these. I will look into that suspension however because roads here arent the worst but they're definitely not good either so ive been wondering what my options were suspension wise.Daily driver on notoriously bad DC-area roads. Over the past 22 months of ownership, I've driven 74 miles a day on weekdays (to/from work, errands, picking up wife in the District, etc.) with frequent road trips up/down the East coast on weekends. I've put 51K miles on the car through summer heat, spring storms, and winter salt/snow. I actually gave up my previous car because I just stopped driving it entirely. The NSX is all I've got when...Three things I've learned so far daily-driving:In my area, I absolutely needed to raise the car up. I was slammed on sagging Eibachs/Bilsteins and I loved the look, but it was completely impractical in the DC-area. I ended up solving this problem two-fold: moved up to KWv3 suspension and installed the iLIFT Systems VRH kit.Either accept that you will get rock chips, or take steps to protect your car. Initially this was heartbreaking, but then I got over it. I have since redone the front of my car and am now going for Xpel PPF, so that should keep my car in great shape for a long time to come.Tires. Tires tires tires. I go through about two sets of rears a year and one set of fronts. This year I am gonna get smart and actually get winter tires swapped on next month, so that should work out well: half the year on winters, half the year on extreme performance summers. I think that will work out well.
Relax the alignment a bit, and the tires will last at least three times as long, with no loss of handling off the track. (PM for specs)
Yes, those are less aggressive, but still intended for track-style cornering. By dialing back the rear toe, and changing the front to toe-in instead of toe-out, you can at least double your tire life again. Of course, if you want to win at the track, this is the wrong idea.I'm using the less aggressive factory 1995 specs and am getting about 12K ~ 14K miles on the rear tires and about 25K ~ 28K on the front tires.
Absolutely agree! I daily drove mine 100k miles from 2001 to about 2009 .. then 3-4 times a week. And, of the 100k miles, about 30k are winter miles .. snow, ice, spring slush, whatever up here in the great White North. Never been stuck and often drive in snow deep enough that I'm levelling it. I often turn the TCS off so I can drift a little on the snow/ice. I agree with the defrost/heater comment as well. I once drove the car for 360 miles at -36 and didn't even have my coat on it was so toasty. Also agree with the comment about less maintenance when daily driven as everything gets regularly exercised/lubed. Disclosure - my car had 90k on it when I bought it .. along with some light road rash and I'm not the 'driveway jewellry' type so the fact it isn't perfect also means less stress. I also track and autocross it although not regularly.Engine is over the rear drive axle, so it is planted. With the X-ice3 tires, I blow by 4x4's on the highway. You should see the looks I get. TCS and ABS really help and I can't wait til I get to experience the new ABS this winter. Honestly the car is uneventful in even the worst snow storm with this setup. Defrost works great and she gets nice and toasty in the cabin. I'm sure our Canadian owners would agree.
Switching to winter tires in preparation for snow/salt/ice. jwmelvin's spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aip3lN5jSAuIdDNwb1lHZVNaamRJYzFEWjZqRVIwZWc#gid=2) is immensely useful.
I daily mine.... For now. '92 acquired in 2009 w/ 52k. Just about 107,000 now.