This is my 2005 Honda Accord, V6.
So how long have you had this car, Jonathan? Over five years now, that's crazy.
It was given to me. I had another Accord and it was old
and my family was like, please stop driving that.
We'll give you a car. No, let me hit 400,000 with that one.
So this suffered a bit while I was reaching 400,000 and then I took it.
I was unemployed at the time and they were like, please just take it.
So that's what I did. And it's still driving really well. I still like it.
What are your favorite quirks and features about the car? Oh my God, Doug Demuro reference, how dare you?
Like I'm not the person that I introduced this whole video with. This, that's true.
That's true. One favorite feature in the summer is the one where you can hold the button
and it'll open all the Windows. Oh wow.
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.
They only did this light cluster in 2005.
There's a quirk. This car doesn't have any quirks. Like the quirks are basically
cause like something's worn out. Like the like air mix motor ticks a lot
and sometimes it'll blow hot air when it shouldn't be blowing hot air.
I guess that's a quirk. Would you call that a quirk? It's not a quirky car.
It's very sensible. But I think there's some things you might like. So come in here.
This is not infotainment. This is just a radio with climate controls mashed together
so you could never add an aftermarket radio in a nice way, right? What you can do is you can get something called
a grom audio interface and it'll give you
Bluetooth and USB into the factory radio.
So my friend and I, we installed this not too long ago. We put in a USB port here
so I can plug my iPhone in, it'll charge and play the music in full quality.
And then we're particularly proud of this. It has Bluetooth and we put the microphone in here
which is where the microphone would go if you had the factory navigation with like the terrible voice activation.
So the microphone's here for the Bluetooth.
You go in here and I can plug my phone in
and listen to music. Copyright alert. This is going to be in full play anyway.
I mean we still got to be worried about that. Just kidding.
Yeah, and like it's cool stuff too. Like I can activate Siri just by hitting this three times.
Serious. Get it? Play a different song.
Yeah, I like it. You can like answer the phone just by like using this channel control.
This is very nice. I'm very mad I didn't get it sooner. I lived too long without it.
When did you install all of this? It was less than a year ago. Okay, we've talked a lot about
what's good about the carpool. What isn't? Okay, I mentioned the air mix motor
so that's not working. What else? A lot of lights are out
like the heated seat back lights out. So I can't see when it's on.
I don't know how you clean headliner. I don't like what's the stuff I need to do to mean
like I have to like, I need new summer tires and I need to do the timing belt.
And there's a leak that I'm, you know keeping my head in the sand about.
We don't know where it's from. Muah, muah.
I mean V6, VTEC? No, yeah.
It's got, it's single overhead cam, VTEC
but not the IVTEC, it just has the old VTEC.
What's the difference between IVTEC and VTEC? Actually, for anybody that doesn't really know
what is VTEC? That's a great question. There's two different cam profiles
that determine how far the valves go down.
And so if you have the valves, you know opening up more air goes to the engine
so that changes how the combustion goes. And then if you restrict it and the valves don't go down
as much that also can affect the combustion. So by having two different modes
you can have two sort of different profiles for what the engine's prioritizing
in terms of how it's burning fuel. So you can prioritize power or you can prioritize efficiency.
So VTEC allows, allowed the engineers to kind of give two options.
And so for the early part of the rev range
it's in like efficiency mode. So it's not going to be developing that much power.
And then at a certain RPM it switches in an instant
to another profile and now it can give you more power.
So that's why they say that VTEC yo cause now it's switching to the power profile and it revs a bit faster.
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.
You have to work it to get the VTEC yo. You have to really push it.
Especially since this is an automatic, right? That's true. That doesn't help either.
I actually had a situation a couple of years back
where the VTEC wasn't working. Really? Yeah, yeah.
So there's like a switch down there. I learned a lot about it, how kind of the system's made.
There's a switch down there, a solenoid. And I guess the cable going to the solenoid something,
it just wasn't, it would just not work sometimes. So like the traction control light would come on
and I couldn't rev past 4,000 cause that's when the VTEC switches.
So I didn't get the whole engine. It just got the first bit of it.
And so the car still ran, so I just drove with it for a while. And so I finally was like,
I should just look in to figure out what's going on. And it could have been the solenoid.
So my friend and I were like looking in there, looking at the cables, like what's going on there?
I guess the solenoids there, we figured out how it all is. And it looked like at some point,
what was a connector, but it just became like a crimped cable together.
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.
And we're like, okay, well, let's let into the night, let's just leave. Start the car, it's fine.
It's fixed, it hasn't, the light hasn't come on, the VTEC's working still.
So, you know, a repair by jiggling cables ran. So you mentioned that this car has 380,000 kilometers on it?
Yes, so this is 384,000 kilometers. And this is the original engine, right?
This is the original engine. It did have one thing happen when my sister was driving it.
One of the spark plugs exploded out. Apparently it's a common problem on here.
So that was a big fix. This engine isn't quite as reliable as the previous Accord,
but it is still the right same engine. So you were given this car, so I guess this question doesn't really work.
But if you were given a chance to get another car, when you purchased this one, would you do it?
Or sorry, when you were given it? If I was given something else?
Yeah. If it was like a Ford Focus, you know what I mean?
Like you like it a bit less or something like that. No, Chevy Cavalier for sure.
But you can't, yeah, you can't look a gift towards the face when you're talking about cars
because they're so essential to moving around and it's kind of like, you kind of just take advantage of it
and then hopefully maybe it will lead to a dream car in the future.
The problem is this one's too good to motivate that, you know?
I mean, it does a lot of stuff, right? It's got a good amount of power.
It's got good room in there. It's reliable, relatively, right?
And then fuel consumption, you might be interested, you usually get around 10 liter sprinter kilometers.
When I was in Winnipeg though, it was like 17
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.
The car is kind of dirty right now, so you can't fully see the results of his hard work.
But he came over and helped polish the car, which was really nice. What's the next car that you would get?
I vacillate a lot between different things. And so I could tell you what I'm eyeing up.
I love like a two seat roadster from maybe the late 90s.
So like a early 2000s, so like a Boxster. Or I love the R129 Mercedes SL class.
That'd be fun. This is a part of me that just wants a big pickup truck.
And I'm finding myself like really attracted to those like late 90s cars that I liked as a kid,
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.
And then I'm like, well, but my car's fine. So you're definitely looking for something
a little bit more sporty then? Yeah, yeah, like with personality.
Would you say that your car has personality?
Yes, but that's cause I drive it.
It's a reflection of the personality of the driver. Because there's a lot of people I feel like
who drive this car or own this car and don't know what they have.
They don't take advantage of it. They're just kind of bumbling around.
Hit the gas, give it the berries.
Oh my gosh.
Okay. All right, so this thing has a little bit of pep in it.
Yeah, it's great. It's a danger. It's a great car to really, you know,
rev it up. Slow car fast is way better than fast car slow.
Oh yeah. This is the thing about an Accord. It's a very boring looking kind of mainstream car,
but they just managed to give it that little bit of magic
where you're like, I don't need anything else.
It's really hard.
Cause I could imagine going into another car that might have more power or might have better handling
or might look better. Definitely easier for me to look better.
But there'll always be something missing.
What's your dream car? I like cars too much to really have like one Volvo V70R.
Ooh. I feel like finding one of those in good shape now. Low-weight. Yeah, and they always have a high mileage.
I have been well worn with a stick. Needs a stick as well.
Are you a little choked that this is an automatic? I'm choked that it's an automatic and a sedan.
There's a wagon with a manual. Oh, stop.
That'd be amazing. But no, no one buys them. You're an idiot.
The lot of you.