Type R Questions!

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Originally Posted by Moya

1. As a daily driver, what's it like? I'm still thinking I'll buy a second car, maybe a povo oldschool corolla as my main daily driver, and use my Type R for weekend and maybe once a week to work.

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Type R's are fuel efficient, obviously depends on the way you drive it. Easy to drive, fun to drive and when you feel like you wanna give it a little, you can. :) I reckon they're a great daily driver.

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Originally Posted by Moya

2. Police attention?

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Honda's in general hardly get any cop attention when you're driven normally. Of course you'll get some attention when you fang it everywhere.

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3. Tyres? I think stock rims are 15" yeh? How much are decent soft compound racing style types for this size?

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Yes as said above, Type R's come with 15" Enkei rims. If you want a nice set of tyres, try the Falken Azneis. My bro has them on his R and IMO they are a great street tyre. :)

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4. How much should I budget for my alarm? Is a ~$1000 Viper alarm going to be sufficent?

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Honestly, you don't need to spend up to $1000 for a 'good' alarm. You are mainly paying that kind of money for the gadgety features such as: lcd pager, turbo timer, remote engine start etc. If you don't need or want those features, an alarm fully installed for $500 can be more than efficient.

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5. Is a decent sound system a waste of money/power? Couple 12's in the back, Alpine 9831, awesome splits at the front? I mean, the car doesn't vibrate like a tin can does it?

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If you find music as a necessity, why not spend a bit of money. You will be in your car pretty often throughout the week so why not spend some money on the system. Dunno if you need up to two 12" subs in a Type R. A single 12" will be more than sufficient as the Type R's are a 'liftback' and having a 12" will be a lot louder than having a 12" in any sedan such as your Falcon.

I have my DC2R for few weeks now and I am more than happy with the car, it is just too much fun to drive, I have exhaust with 4-1 headers ao it makes very nice sound (simular to wrx), didn't get pulled over by cops (yet).
Fuel should be better when I settle down little bit:) (I am over 6000rpm most of the time at the moment but that should last for few more weeks).
Performace wise it's great, goes very good and so far is top speed was pushed to 225km/h, which is my personal best:)
Sound system, best one is to just go over 6000rpm, heaven for your ears:)

I just read my post and I am shocked how many mistakes I made (in english) must be all that excitment from just talking about VTEC:)

i had 2 x 12" sub in the boot. it was pretty mad fun until someone got in and stole them.... *faggots.....

i can get about 400+km outta a 50L tank with a few occasional vtec-ing. i drive my type r everywhere... my clutch is nearly dead... so its a bit tiring if you get stuck in traffic.

i've got a vision n1 exhaust, 6000K hids and haven't really got any attention. even in rbts, i get nothing more than a straw for a souveneir.

Thanks for the replies all.

Final question, any difference between the red and black recaro's?

The colour mate

no difference between the seats champ!
one is black and the other is red.. cant forget yellow too ;)

Yellow is hot! Much harder to find too.

I didnt even know Yellow existed :)

good luck finding 1 with reasonable kms and 1 that hasnt been thrashed.

I'd say every type-r out there has been put through its paces,
a person not willing to push the car at high rpm wouldnt really be interested in buying one.

But thier built strong, and it wouldnt be so rev-happy if honda didnt want it to be pushed.

But yes, 'thrashed' isnt good :)

there are two on carsales.com.au, that I would consider getting, and one is yellow with yellow recaros, has a claimed 35000 kms, seems a bit low, but if its true would be a great buy at 25K, not in sydney though.