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Old 05-02-2017, 01:55 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Old 05-02-2017, 05:09 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I saw what he did to a Prius. OMG! Never mind whatever he said about the Insight!
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I saw what he did to a Prius. OMG! Never mind whatever he said about the Insight!
To be fair...it's pretty hard to get positive words about a car out of him, unless it's an 80s or 90s Honda. It's happened, but not often.
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I was driving to work in the Volt a couple of weeks ago and I blew around one of those old slow G1 Insights so fast that I had to slam on the brakes when I got next to it . . . to confirm it was my son, in my old Insight of course

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The picture he paints of the kind of person who owns an Insight is amazing. I was kind of upset that he knocked the car a bit for maintenance issues like the 2nd gear synchro, but that's about how most of these cars are at this point.
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If that bothers you, do NOT, I repeat, do NOT watch his Avenger video.

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The picture he paints of the kind of person who owns an Insight is amazing. I was kind of upset that he knocked the car a bit for maintenance issues like the 2nd gear synchro, but that's about how most of these cars are at this point.
I'd say that is a fair criticism. Honda transmissions of this vintage are particularly prone to problems. He also mentions the Input Shaft Bearing is making a lot of noise.

Transmissions from a little bit older Hondas typically don't have as many problems, so it's not really an age issue.
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Old 05-04-2017, 09:48 AM   #9 (permalink)
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I found this video comical because there will always be that "Negative Nelly/Nancy" out there making a bad comment or video.
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If I remember correctly, he had good things to say about the cobalt xfe. Didn't watch video yet.

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