Tuxedo Mask
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- Civic Type R FL5
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This past 4th of July weekend I took my Type R on a trip I had always wanted to do: going down the California coast. The plan was drive up to Monterey and spend a few nights there before driving down to Big Sur for a night and then on the last day, since the 1 is split in 2 due to a closure in Lucia, drive back up to Monterey around the closed portion of the coast highway down to SLO, take the 1 all the way up to where it's closed and come back home to SD.
I'm not gonna get into the "fun part" of the car as we're all well aware how much fun a Type R is on windy mountain roads. Most of the roads were smooth enough for the Sport suspension setting (sometimes I'd bump it down to Comfort suspension but majority of the fun parts were in Sport) while the engine was in +R.
On the flat long interstate, I was probably averaging close to 30 mpg given I only needed to stop once on the 450 mile drive that was planned for day 1. The whole trip was around 1200 miles and I topped up 4 times in total which was less than I was expecting (I started with a full tank of gas which isn't counted in that number). I can't understate the comfort in this car. I've driven up and down the I-5 going from SoCal to NorCal many times and I always get tired near the end. In this car, I didn't feel the driving fatigue or the tiredness like I have in other cars. Butt didn't go numb, back didn't ache, legs didn't need to be stretched. Just had the music going and the AC on and the 400 miles in 100 degree weather went by pretty quickly. The last day was the longest day where I drove 675 miles over the course of 12 hours (stopped for food and scenery and one time cause a bee flew in and stung me and I needed to address it) and didn't feel tired when I made it home. All in all, surprisingly very nice car for long drives.
Most of the turn outs were small dirt lots with lots of dips and holes (the one pictured above was one of the better ones) but as long as you slow down to assess how bad it is, the car can go most places without me worrying about it. Any drop or big hole that looked about 3-4 inches deep I avoided and I never scraped once on the stops. Ironically, the only place the car took any sort of damage was in the motel parking lot in Monterey where the front under bumper trim would scrape on the steep drive ways and short hill the had in the parking lot going down and around a tight corridor and a tiny speck of wheel damage when the wheel rubbed against a wall in an tight enclosed parking space on an incline around a planter(I wish I took a photo of that). I'm not bothered by the damage, just the fact that I drove for 4 days straight and it only took damage in a parking lot lol
The storage space in the car is very nice if you have a lot of luggage (myself and the other passengers only had a backpack each but I could see myself doing more in this car).
My only concern was I noticed the car making a weird noise whenever my foot was completely off the gas and the car was rolling. There's a subtle metallic scratching/scaping noise like something is rubbing on something. The sound goes away as soon as I give it any sort of throttle, even just lightly resting my foot on the pedal. I don't know what it is, but I'm planning on having it looked at this week.
~1300 miles in this car is pretty fun and easy. I'd like to do more trips and adventures in this car like state parks or camping.
I'm not gonna get into the "fun part" of the car as we're all well aware how much fun a Type R is on windy mountain roads. Most of the roads were smooth enough for the Sport suspension setting (sometimes I'd bump it down to Comfort suspension but majority of the fun parts were in Sport) while the engine was in +R.
On the flat long interstate, I was probably averaging close to 30 mpg given I only needed to stop once on the 450 mile drive that was planned for day 1. The whole trip was around 1200 miles and I topped up 4 times in total which was less than I was expecting (I started with a full tank of gas which isn't counted in that number). I can't understate the comfort in this car. I've driven up and down the I-5 going from SoCal to NorCal many times and I always get tired near the end. In this car, I didn't feel the driving fatigue or the tiredness like I have in other cars. Butt didn't go numb, back didn't ache, legs didn't need to be stretched. Just had the music going and the AC on and the 400 miles in 100 degree weather went by pretty quickly. The last day was the longest day where I drove 675 miles over the course of 12 hours (stopped for food and scenery and one time cause a bee flew in and stung me and I needed to address it) and didn't feel tired when I made it home. All in all, surprisingly very nice car for long drives.
Most of the turn outs were small dirt lots with lots of dips and holes (the one pictured above was one of the better ones) but as long as you slow down to assess how bad it is, the car can go most places without me worrying about it. Any drop or big hole that looked about 3-4 inches deep I avoided and I never scraped once on the stops. Ironically, the only place the car took any sort of damage was in the motel parking lot in Monterey where the front under bumper trim would scrape on the steep drive ways and short hill the had in the parking lot going down and around a tight corridor and a tiny speck of wheel damage when the wheel rubbed against a wall in an tight enclosed parking space on an incline around a planter(I wish I took a photo of that). I'm not bothered by the damage, just the fact that I drove for 4 days straight and it only took damage in a parking lot lol
The storage space in the car is very nice if you have a lot of luggage (myself and the other passengers only had a backpack each but I could see myself doing more in this car).
My only concern was I noticed the car making a weird noise whenever my foot was completely off the gas and the car was rolling. There's a subtle metallic scratching/scaping noise like something is rubbing on something. The sound goes away as soon as I give it any sort of throttle, even just lightly resting my foot on the pedal. I don't know what it is, but I'm planning on having it looked at this week.
~1300 miles in this car is pretty fun and easy. I'd like to do more trips and adventures in this car like state parks or camping.
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