1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,560 This is my 2005 Honda Accord, V6. 2 00:00:04,560 --> 00:00:09,320 So how long have you had this car, Jonathan? Over five years now, that's crazy. 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,800 It was given to me. I had another Accord and it was old 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,840 and my family was like, please stop driving that. 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,000 We'll give you a car. No, let me hit 400,000 with that one. 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,320 So this suffered a bit while I was reaching 400,000 and then I took it. 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,760 I was unemployed at the time and they were like, please just take it. 8 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:29,200 So that's what I did. And it's still driving really well. I still like it. 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:35,320 What are your favorite quirks and features about the car? Oh my God, Doug Demuro reference, how dare you? 10 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:39,520 Like I'm not the person that I introduced this whole video with. This, that's true. 11 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:44,000 That's true. One favorite feature in the summer is the one where you can hold the button 12 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,640 and it'll open all the Windows. Oh wow. 13 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:53,400 That's what you did that with your key? Just with the remote. The way you can tell 2005 is it has the red signal lights. 14 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,720 They only did this light cluster in 2005. 15 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,800 There's a quirk. This car doesn't have any quirks. Like the quirks are basically 16 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:05,960 cause like something's worn out. Like the like air mix motor ticks a lot 17 00:01:05,960 --> 00:01:09,760 and sometimes it'll blow hot air when it shouldn't be blowing hot air. 18 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:13,320 I guess that's a quirk. Would you call that a quirk? It's not a quirky car. 19 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:16,920 It's very sensible. But I think there's some things you might like. So come in here. 20 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:21,680 This is not infotainment. This is just a radio with climate controls mashed together 21 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:26,640 so you could never add an aftermarket radio in a nice way, right? What you can do is you can get something called 22 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,480 a grom audio interface and it'll give you 23 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,880 Bluetooth and USB into the factory radio. 24 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:38,320 So my friend and I, we installed this not too long ago. We put in a USB port here 25 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:42,640 so I can plug my iPhone in, it'll charge and play the music in full quality. 26 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:47,280 And then we're particularly proud of this. It has Bluetooth and we put the microphone in here 27 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:51,920 which is where the microphone would go if you had the factory navigation with like the terrible voice activation. 28 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,120 So the microphone's here for the Bluetooth. 29 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,320 You go in here and I can plug my phone in 30 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:02,280 and listen to music. Copyright alert. This is going to be in full play anyway. 31 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,320 I mean we still got to be worried about that. Just kidding. 32 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,880 Yeah, and like it's cool stuff too. Like I can activate Siri just by hitting this three times. 33 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:14,520 Serious. Get it? Play a different song. 34 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,760 Yeah, I like it. You can like answer the phone just by like using this channel control. 35 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,320 This is very nice. I'm very mad I didn't get it sooner. I lived too long without it. 36 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,200 When did you install all of this? It was less than a year ago. Okay, we've talked a lot about 37 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:29,000 what's good about the carpool. What isn't? Okay, I mentioned the air mix motor 38 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,960 so that's not working. What else? A lot of lights are out 39 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:37,480 like the heated seat back lights out. So I can't see when it's on. 40 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:42,280 I don't know how you clean headliner. I don't like what's the stuff I need to do to mean 41 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:47,360 like I have to like, I need new summer tires and I need to do the timing belt. 42 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:51,080 And there's a leak that I'm, you know keeping my head in the sand about. 43 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,360 We don't know where it's from. Muah, muah. 44 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,160 I mean V6, VTEC? No, yeah. 45 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,040 It's got, it's single overhead cam, VTEC 46 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,080 but not the IVTEC, it just has the old VTEC. 47 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:12,760 What's the difference between IVTEC and VTEC? Actually, for anybody that doesn't really know 48 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:17,480 what is VTEC? That's a great question. There's two different cam profiles 49 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,680 that determine how far the valves go down. 50 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,320 And so if you have the valves, you know opening up more air goes to the engine 51 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:28,640 so that changes how the combustion goes. And then if you restrict it and the valves don't go down 52 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:33,520 as much that also can affect the combustion. So by having two different modes 53 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,480 you can have two sort of different profiles for what the engine's prioritizing 54 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:42,520 in terms of how it's burning fuel. So you can prioritize power or you can prioritize efficiency. 55 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:47,560 So VTEC allows, allowed the engineers to kind of give two options. 56 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,800 And so for the early part of the rev range 57 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,360 it's in like efficiency mode. So it's not going to be developing that much power. 58 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,360 And then at a certain RPM it switches in an instant 59 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:03,080 to another profile and now it can give you more power. 60 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:07,880 So that's why they say that VTEC yo cause now it's switching to the power profile and it revs a bit faster. 61 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:13,440 It's very high up. It's like 5,000 RPM or something crazy like that. These revs pretty high, but you have to work it. 62 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,360 You have to work it to get the VTEC yo. You have to really push it. 63 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,840 Especially since this is an automatic, right? That's true. That doesn't help either. 64 00:04:20,840 --> 00:04:24,320 I actually had a situation a couple of years back 65 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,320 where the VTEC wasn't working. Really? Yeah, yeah. 66 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:32,320 So there's like a switch down there. I learned a lot about it, how kind of the system's made. 67 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:38,200 There's a switch down there, a solenoid. And I guess the cable going to the solenoid something, 68 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:42,060 it just wasn't, it would just not work sometimes. So like the traction control light would come on 69 00:04:42,060 --> 00:04:45,880 and I couldn't rev past 4,000 cause that's when the VTEC switches. 70 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,240 So I didn't get the whole engine. It just got the first bit of it. 71 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:53,360 And so the car still ran, so I just drove with it for a while. And so I finally was like, 72 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:57,240 I should just look in to figure out what's going on. And it could have been the solenoid. 73 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:02,720 So my friend and I were like looking in there, looking at the cables, like what's going on there? 74 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:07,920 I guess the solenoids there, we figured out how it all is. And it looked like at some point, 75 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,240 what was a connector, but it just became like a crimped cable together. 76 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:15,320 So we like jiggled it a bit and we're like, I don't know what to do. I guess we'd have to like figure out the cable. 77 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:19,960 And we're like, okay, well, let's let into the night, let's just leave. Start the car, it's fine. 78 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:24,680 It's fixed, it hasn't, the light hasn't come on, the VTEC's working still. 79 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:31,960 So, you know, a repair by jiggling cables ran. So you mentioned that this car has 380,000 kilometers on it? 80 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,440 Yes, so this is 384,000 kilometers. And this is the original engine, right? 81 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,280 This is the original engine. It did have one thing happen when my sister was driving it. 82 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:43,640 One of the spark plugs exploded out. Apparently it's a common problem on here. 83 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:47,960 So that was a big fix. This engine isn't quite as reliable as the previous Accord, 84 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:52,640 but it is still the right same engine. So you were given this car, so I guess this question doesn't really work. 85 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:57,600 But if you were given a chance to get another car, when you purchased this one, would you do it? 86 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,600 Or sorry, when you were given it? If I was given something else? 87 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,840 Yeah. If it was like a Ford Focus, you know what I mean? 88 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:09,520 Like you like it a bit less or something like that. No, Chevy Cavalier for sure. 89 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:13,720 But you can't, yeah, you can't look a gift towards the face when you're talking about cars 90 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:18,240 because they're so essential to moving around and it's kind of like, you kind of just take advantage of it 91 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,160 and then hopefully maybe it will lead to a dream car in the future. 92 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:26,360 The problem is this one's too good to motivate that, you know? 93 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,400 I mean, it does a lot of stuff, right? It's got a good amount of power. 94 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:33,440 It's got good room in there. It's reliable, relatively, right? 95 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:38,880 And then fuel consumption, you might be interested, you usually get around 10 liter sprinter kilometers. 96 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:42,560 When I was in Winnipeg though, it was like 17 97 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:49,320 because it's so cold and I didn't drive very far. Oh yeah, one fun story. Jamie and I from Logistics, we did a whole polish. 98 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:54,520 The car is kind of dirty right now, so you can't fully see the results of his hard work. 99 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:59,920 But he came over and helped polish the car, which was really nice. What's the next car that you would get? 100 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:03,880 I vacillate a lot between different things. And so I could tell you what I'm eyeing up. 101 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,960 I love like a two seat roadster from maybe the late 90s. 102 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:13,440 So like a early 2000s, so like a Boxster. Or I love the R129 Mercedes SL class. 103 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:17,520 That'd be fun. This is a part of me that just wants a big pickup truck. 104 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:21,320 And I'm finding myself like really attracted to those like late 90s cars that I liked as a kid, 105 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:27,160 so I don't know what that means. There's so many great cars out there that I kind of get so overwhelmed by the choice. 106 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,960 And then I'm like, well, but my car's fine. So you're definitely looking for something 107 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,040 a little bit more sporty then? Yeah, yeah, like with personality. 108 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,040 Would you say that your car has personality? 109 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:41,040 Yes, but that's cause I drive it. 110 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,960 It's a reflection of the personality of the driver. Because there's a lot of people I feel like 111 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:50,400 who drive this car or own this car and don't know what they have. 112 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:54,360 They don't take advantage of it. They're just kind of bumbling around. 113 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,440 Hit the gas, give it the berries. 114 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:00,000 Oh my gosh. 115 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:08,720 Okay. All right, so this thing has a little bit of pep in it. 116 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:13,760 Yeah, it's great. It's a danger. It's a great car to really, you know, 117 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:19,920 rev it up. Slow car fast is way better than fast car slow. 118 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:26,160 Oh yeah. This is the thing about an Accord. It's a very boring looking kind of mainstream car, 119 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:29,640 but they just managed to give it that little bit of magic 120 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:33,320 where you're like, I don't need anything else. 121 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,720 It's really hard. 122 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:43,200 Cause I could imagine going into another car that might have more power or might have better handling 123 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:47,320 or might look better. Definitely easier for me to look better. 124 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,840 But there'll always be something missing. 125 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:56,280 What's your dream car? I like cars too much to really have like one Volvo V70R. 126 00:08:56,280 --> 00:09:01,040 Ooh. I feel like finding one of those in good shape now. Low-weight. Yeah, and they always have a high mileage. 127 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,280 I have been well worn with a stick. Needs a stick as well. 128 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:08,840 Are you a little choked that this is an automatic? I'm choked that it's an automatic and a sedan. 129 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:13,400 There's a wagon with a manual. Oh, stop. 130 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,680 That'd be amazing. But no, no one buys them. You're an idiot. 131 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:17,520 The lot of you.