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| I was a past owner of a 2004 S2000 and drove the car for about 2 years. I loved how precise the vehicle drove as well as how low maintenance it is. Several things drove me crazy about the car on any surface besides the most perfectly paved roads: the car has rattles that won't go away, nor the dealer was able to find. One of the rattles was isolated by me to the passenger seat belt when there's no passenger. The other rattles and ticks seems to originate from the convertible top and clasp. Ultimately it was those rattles as well as how "high strung" the vehicle felt on highway cruising that let me to sell the vehicle and get a Porsche 996. Do others have similar problems and if you did how did you fix it? | |
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Can't say that I've had much in the way of rattle problems past the 60K mark in my '04. The top can rattle on bumps every now and then. That's about the only big one. To redsoxgirl (sorry to be late to the discussion) - I've been driving my S2000 in Detroit for several years, summer and winter alike. Blizzak LM22/25s and a couple hundred pounds in the trunk make it passable. Not great, but passable. I haven't wrecked it yet  I do run into problems if there is more than a couple of inches of standing snow on the bigger roads - then I'm either coming in late to work or borrowing a ride from someone. Fortunately I've only had to deal with this a couple of days each winter, most times the main roads are cleared enough by rush hour traffic that the S2000 can get through with the Blizzaks. I saw the new '06 at the dealership. Kind of like the seats and the stereo, and stability control--nice. Otherwise, pretty much the same. Got word that the '07 S2000 is coming and expected to be largely unchanged from the '06. I also noticed that (as far as I can tell) the EPS (electrical power steering) has been removed from the '06 in favor of a traditional rack-and-pinion setup. What happened here? This was something of a surprise...
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 60k on a 2004, wow that is a lot of driving for 2 years... Cool!
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| I might possibly be that the EPS made the car drive too "high strung". The EPS on my 04 when I had it felt very sensitive... which is great on windy roads and switchbacks, but horrible on high speed cruising on the highway. Downside is if they went back to hydralic power steering that will take away from ultimately the power that the car can put to the wheels... which I guess was a selling point earlier S2000 were promoting. | |
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I had trouble with rattles coming from where the convertible top attaches to the A pillars, on my '01 S2000. I had the "receiver" for the clasps replaced with new ones that are meant for the hard top. This change COMPLETELY cured the rattle. It now fits tighter and NO rattle whatsoever. Cost was about $150 at the dealer. This is a well described problem; I think more common in earlier model years. There was a Honda Service Bulletin describing the "fix" that my dealer did. Hope this helps someone with rattle-aversion. |
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 Can a S2000 get into a driveway with a cement drain spoon/dip. I am not sure if that is what it is called but basically it is the pretty typical cement dip which sometimes is installed for drainage in a development and you need to go over it to get in your driveway! Does the S2000 drag on these? What about speed bumps? I noticed that the 2002 had a clearance of 133 mm. Is that was that what the 2006 has? Does this cause a problem. I have one of these cement dips just before going into my driveway straight on. Do you think I can't get in without scraping? Have they raised them any since 2002? Any information would be appreciated. I have a 2006 on order. Thanks |
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Replying to: speedman (May 14, 2006 6:05 pm) Thanks
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Replying to: kwinter (Jun 18, 2006 6:40 pm) I have had issues - The most painful one was this: They were paving the top most layer of my street two weeks ago as construction was nearly wrapped up in our development. Consequently, they cleared the gravel and stuff at the entrance to my driveway and WHAM!! The bottom of the front bumper rreeeaaallllly scraped against the road as I was backing out. I tried to mitigate the damage the next time around by nosing out and a saw a repeat performance on the rear bumper - It felt as painful as my own back being dragged against the street at 8 mph.... The one way you could avoid this is by raising the angle of inclination with paving stones /tiles. These are the flat brick ones, not too thick, cost you about a dollar a piece at Home depot. (I removed mine from my Hardscaping and used it temporarily until they finished paving the top most layer). Bottom line: There are issues!! Watch out and Hopefully, your babies don't go thru' the pain mine did. It doesn't show, but you WILL know, by looking at the scratch marks left on the driveway!! Cheers!! --njexpress |
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Just got my 2004 last Wednesday. Black, 6000 miles, looks like perfect condition to me. Paid $24,000 to a private party, which looked like a very reasonable price based on research I did (this is in Texas). Had been thinking about it for a while, and every now and then checking the newspaper ads. You should be really careful about checking ads - sooner or later there will be one that can't be passed up! Am really enjoying it, but having an issue with the blind spot with the top up, and also with my driveway. The left outside mirror does not turn out very far. I am used to adjusting the left mirror so that a car coming up on the left moves into that mirror a little before it leaves the inside mirror and is still (just) visible in the left mirror when it comes into my peripheral vision, or at least I can see it if I turn my head. Here a passing vehicle moves out of the range of the left mirror and I cannot see it even looking over my shoulder. If the car is passing me, I normally would know it is there, but sometimes in traffic someone will be cruising in that blind spot and I cannot see them. The question, finally, is whether anyone knows if there is any way to change the range of adjustment of the mirror? (I don't need it to turn in so far that I can check in it how I look, so less far turned in and more turned out is what I need.) As to driveways, I had a little issue with mine, but found that going in at a sharp angle made the necessary difference, because the front sticks out quite a bit further in the center than at the corners. Once the front is past the scraping point, I turn up the drive and have not scraped the rear, except very lightly sometimes. Going straight in I scraped both front and rear. Really hated to do that the first day I had it, though nothing shows, it still hurts, as njexpress said. Have enjoyed reading the forums for quite a while, and am glad to be able to join as an owner. The car does take some adjusting to, and I am not sure I could have it as my only car, especially when the top has to be up, but sure do look forward to driving it.
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Replying to: jatdee (Jun 19, 2006 11:41 am) There is an useful article under: http://www.s2ki.com/Home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=295&Itemid=60- I am not sure about the rules of our forum here: I hope I am not breaking any of them by posting a diret link here _ If so, Dear Host, Please feel free to let me know Cheers!! --njexpress
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