Honda Integra DC5 Type R
Discussion
SeanEP3 said:
Beautiful!
Im a Honda man through and through, and am going to get a DC5 this year, unfortunately, the Milano is out of my price range!
I'm in hemel, so i'll have to keep an eye out for you.
Enjoy!
I'm over hemel quite a lot (work at the snow centre), so keep an eye out!Im a Honda man through and through, and am going to get a DC5 this year, unfortunately, the Milano is out of my price range!
I'm in hemel, so i'll have to keep an eye out for you.
Enjoy!
I got quite lucky finding this, it was £9k, which is less than higher mileage fresh imports coming in. The Milano red swung me bigtime.
Edited by designforlife on Tuesday 3rd January 11:41
designforlife said:
Seen those intakes, look awesome, not sure I could justify the cost though!!
No need for Gruppe M 
http://www.tegiwaimports.com/select-car/honda/dc5/...
Nice DC5 by the way
rich85uk said:
Ooh, that's more like it rich85uk said:
To be fair, I had the GM before the Tegiwa replica came about!Collected the car on saturday morning, so thought I'd relate my first 48 hours with it.Set off from Crewkerne and up the M5 to Bristol, with the biggest car related grin and sense of elation I've had when picking up a new motor, marvelling at how comfy those red recaros are.
It's such a quick and capable car, and is so eager to go, like an excited puppy. Planting foot to floor in second is an experience indeed. But at the same time it's pretty solid and planted...driving it normally is a relaxing experience, and sitting in 6th on the motorway it just happily bumbles along. It's been fairly wet so I haven't been able to truly push the car yet, but the handling feels brilliant for an FWD car sofar...i think the bridgestone potenzas it's shod in should do the job.
And then, on day two...I had to call the RAC!
I loaded the car and started it up, to drive back home to St Albans...was stood on the driveway chatting to my mum, and i hear that telltale central locking clunk.
Sure enough, the car had locked itself...would seem the cobra alarm system has a really *useful* feature where it auto locks after a set time or over a set speed...
Of course, the spare fob was in the boot with all the paperwork and my bags...so had to resort to calling RAC while the car sat there, occupant-less, idling away!
one door wedge and thin wire later, he pushed one of the power windows down...literally a 3 minute job, seems so simple once you see it done!
The car is safe and tucked up now, first impressions have been fantastic...my only minor gripe is the lack of view out of the back window...reversing is going to be an interesting experience!
It's going to be booked in with a specialist in the next couple weeks for a good look-over, also needs the oil dropping, as when the garage appointed by the dealer serviced it they used 10w40 instead of 5w40 (for cheaps i'd imagine).
Aside from the bootlock seemingly randomly locking and unlocking itself when driving along, I haven't yet discovered any niggles after the first 300 or so miles of Integra-ing.
Few pics to follow shortly
It's such a quick and capable car, and is so eager to go, like an excited puppy. Planting foot to floor in second is an experience indeed. But at the same time it's pretty solid and planted...driving it normally is a relaxing experience, and sitting in 6th on the motorway it just happily bumbles along. It's been fairly wet so I haven't been able to truly push the car yet, but the handling feels brilliant for an FWD car sofar...i think the bridgestone potenzas it's shod in should do the job.
And then, on day two...I had to call the RAC!
I loaded the car and started it up, to drive back home to St Albans...was stood on the driveway chatting to my mum, and i hear that telltale central locking clunk.
Sure enough, the car had locked itself...would seem the cobra alarm system has a really *useful* feature where it auto locks after a set time or over a set speed...
Of course, the spare fob was in the boot with all the paperwork and my bags...so had to resort to calling RAC while the car sat there, occupant-less, idling away!
one door wedge and thin wire later, he pushed one of the power windows down...literally a 3 minute job, seems so simple once you see it done!
The car is safe and tucked up now, first impressions have been fantastic...my only minor gripe is the lack of view out of the back window...reversing is going to be an interesting experience!
It's going to be booked in with a specialist in the next couple weeks for a good look-over, also needs the oil dropping, as when the garage appointed by the dealer serviced it they used 10w40 instead of 5w40 (for cheaps i'd imagine).
Aside from the bootlock seemingly randomly locking and unlocking itself when driving along, I haven't yet discovered any niggles after the first 300 or so miles of Integra-ing.
Few pics to follow shortly
Edited by designforlife on Monday 9th January 09:12
A few pics. After I got it home on sunday I set about removing those black door protector strips, then gave the car a good wash, polish and sealed with some poorboys EX-P.
Couple of shots of the £££ parcel shelf, and interior...which is in excellent nick considering the car is 14 years old!
Next on the list is replacing the boot badge, as the current one has taken on a bit of water and rusted/discoloured...simple thing but should be quite satisfying.
Booked into Dream Automotive in a few weeks time for a thorough going over...then after that I'll look at getting the wheels refurbed, and she'll be ready for spring/summer
Couple of shots of the £££ parcel shelf, and interior...which is in excellent nick considering the car is 14 years old!
Next on the list is replacing the boot badge, as the current one has taken on a bit of water and rusted/discoloured...simple thing but should be quite satisfying.
Booked into Dream Automotive in a few weeks time for a thorough going over...then after that I'll look at getting the wheels refurbed, and she'll be ready for spring/summer
Butter Face said:
Looks good and still very red which is nice, or does it look redder in pictures than it is?
My EP3 is pretty pinky.
Unbelievably, for Milano red, it is actually that red IRL...I thought the same when i saw the original sales ad pics, but was pleasantly suprised when i viewed the car.My EP3 is pretty pinky.
Previous owner must have been pretty diligent with the polish...the only part of the car that is a little pink is the plastic grill insert on the front of the bonnet which has the honda badge on.
shakindog said:
Had a jdm dc2 a few years ago the only car I've ever regretted selling. Couldn't stretch to a dc 5 so settled for an accord type r in the fastest Honda colour Red.
Lovely motor and top choice of colour.
I got incredibly lucky tbh, this one just came up at the right time...any other month i'd have probably ended up with a championship white or blue one.Lovely motor and top choice of colour.
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