"RWS Motorsport" (rwsmotorsport)
10/07/2016 at 11:27 • Filed to: S2000
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"RWS Motorsport" (rwsmotorsport)
10/07/2016 at 11:27 • Filed to: S2000 | 9
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3 days late. Thankfully it didnt get in a strop with me because I didn’t buy it anything special to celebrate our year together.
So in the 12 months I have owned this mad little roadster I have done 14,000 miles through snow, rain and very occasional sun (this is the UK after all). It has lived up to its reputation of being a reliable little beast, with only servicing being needed. Today I have just completed the second service in my ownership, with fresh fluids and filters gracing the mighty F20C.
About that engine then: its not a bundle of torque, but I have yet to find that be an actual problem (rather than just a problem on the internets). It’ll pull away in 2nd, and pull from 70mph to 80mph without any difficulty and plenty fast enough to get me into trouble, as i discovered on Sunday. Whoops. Guess I’ll be off to a driver improvement course for my little misdemeanour... 79mph in a 70.
There have been some lows with the car. February was a pretty rough month with some family stuff meaning it did the run back home 6 times in 4 weeks (310 miles each time). That really made me dislike the car to be honest, it’s not a particularly refined motorway cruiser, and with a range of less than 300 miles per tank, was a pain in the arse. The wind noise doesn’t exactly scream comfort and civility too, so having to have music at super loud volumes made the journeys a bit arduous.
But then a couple of months passed, I did a road trip to the Nurburgring:
Face of concentration...
And fell back in love with the car again.
From then its been used for a couple of trips to Goodwood, just returned from a trip up to the wilds of Yorkshire and and generally larking around. What’s most interesting is that this car has made me go and do car related things that I wouldn’t have done with the previous steed.
The only negative I have with the car currently is that the roof is leaking like a bastard. Ive fiddled with the seals to try and make it a little more water tight where it leaks at the A pillar, and the fabric is currently a mix of tillweave, patch material and duct tape.
Running costs wise, things have been not too bad, but more expensive than the Focus it replaced.
2 New tyres in December set me back £240ish. 2 services (done by myself admittedly) have set me back a little over £200. The fuel bills, I cant really face working out. And tax, that’s the kicker, at £500 a year :(
There are also a couple of big bills on the horizon, with a new roof being £660 because of the holes in this one now getting to the point of ridiculousness. There are 4 large duct tape patches keeping the water out as we speak... And it does need a trip to a honda garage to get the valves adjusted as that’s never been done. Finally a TCT might be on the cards. But thats not pressing.
So to sum up. S2000 good. Fuel bills bad.
Have had a couple of ideas of other cars, but every time i start looking I come back to the conclusion that the S2000 is more special than everything else I’ve looked at, and for the few things that are more interesting, I dont think I can face the running costs. So it looks like the S2000 is here to stay for a while.
Blue 2000
> RWS Motorsport
10/07/2016 at 11:43 |
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How many miles does your S2000 have now? Also, changing the TCT out for a new one isn’t difficult or time consuming. I got mine from Billman off the S2ki forums, but I don’t know if he ships to Europe.
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RWS Motorsport
> Blue 2000
10/07/2016 at 11:51 |
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87500 now. I think I will just do it as a matter of precaution at the next service. Thankfully the universe is my friend, so Engineering Explained has just bought one and started doing this maintenance. He used the Ballade sports one, which is about $200 so not a bad deal.
The S2ki forums are such a godsend for techy advice, but im a lurker not a user over there.
Leon711
> RWS Motorsport
10/07/2016 at 12:41 |
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Out of curiosity how bad is the fuel bill? I only get about 27mpg across a tank, but I never stretch the cars legs, it’s all slowly driving to work and back.
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RWS Motorsport
> Leon711
10/07/2016 at 12:45 |
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I tend to get around 27/28mpg too. Astonishingly got 35mpg on a 270 mile fill, almost all at 70mph. Worst I have had is 22mpg which was commuting, stop start rubbish.
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Leon711
> RWS Motorsport
10/07/2016 at 14:58 |
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I’ve managed to eke 45mpg from mine on a run but it was being super diligent about it.